US 12,227,962 B1
Apparatus, system and method for assembling, aligning, leveling and squaring in-ground pool walls
Shane L. Saia, Silver Lake, KS (US)
Filed by Shane L. Saia, Silver Lake, KS (US)
Filed on Apr. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/717,692.
Application 17/717,692 is a continuation of application No. 16/746,746, filed on Jan. 17, 2020, granted, now 11,299,897.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/793,540, filed on Jan. 17, 2019.
Int. Cl. E04H 4/14 (2006.01); E04H 4/00 (2006.01)
CPC E04H 4/14 (2013.01) [E04H 4/0043 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus used for assembling, aligning, leveling, and squaring in-ground pool wall panels during pool construction comprising:
an adjustment member having an at least partially externally threaded shaft section, said shaft section having a lower end and a longitudinal axis;
a fastener securable to a lower flange of a pool wall panel, the fastener having an internally threaded aperture adapted to rotatably receive the threaded shaft section of the adjustment member; and
a cleat member adapted to be connected to the threaded shaft section of the adjustment member in a position to support the pool wall panel on a ground surface, the cleat member having opposite side walls, a through-hole extending between the opposite side walls and configured to receive a rebar, a cleat portion formed in one of the opposite side walls, the cleat portion having a rounded ground-engaging surface and defining a cavity in the side wall of the cleat member opposite the cleat portion, the cavity having an inner floor, a collar portion connected directly to the cleat member extending over the cavity, and an aperture in the collar portion positioned over the cavity, the aperture adapted to receive the threaded shaft section of the adjustment member with the lower end in physical contact with the inner floor of the cavity to support the pool wall panel on the cleat member, said cleat member being attached to the adjustment member so as to be both rotatable in a 360 degree range about the longitudinal axis of the threaded shaft section and pivotable laterally relative to said longitudinal axis;
wherein rotation of the adjustment member relative to the fastener in a first direction will raise the pool wall panel relative to the ground surface and rotation of the adjustment member relative to the fastener in a second direction will lower the pool wall panel relative to the ground surface.