US 11,725,407 B2
Pool skimmer devices, systems, and methods
Robert Douglas Schmidt, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by Robert Douglas Schmidt, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/443,155.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/054,632, filed on Jul. 21, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0025668 A1, Jan. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. E04H 4/12 (2006.01)
CPC E04H 4/1272 (2013.01) 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A skimmer system, comprising:
a skimmer device, the skimmer device comprising:
a self-adjusting funnel configured to be beneath a surface of water;
a funnel basket holder operably connected to the self-adjusting funnel; and
a funnel sleeve operably connected to the self-adjusting funnel;
a float harness and one or more floats attached to the skimmer device;
a coarse skimmer basket to trap non-fine debris;
a ballast collar; and
an exhaust outlet pipe;
wherein the self-adjusting funnel is configured to travel up and down a shaft portion of the funnel basket holder along one or more tracks;
wherein the funnel sleeve is configured to permit the self-adjusting funnel to travel up and down a shaft portion of the funnel basket holder.