Abstract: A quick release pool skimmer basket apparatus includes a tapered attachment apparatus, a basket having a sidewall, a filter element coupled to the sidewall to move between an open position and a closed position, and a handle extending upwardly from the basket. A trigger in the handle is operatively coupled to the filter element to hold the filter element in the closed position. Activation of the trigger releases the bottom from the closed position to the open position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of growing plants indoors, more particularly, relates to a unique grow tent assembly and apparatus that enables growth of plants indoors. Grow tents are portable enclosed structures that enables users to grow plants in indoors. Generally, grow tents are made of plastic or metal framing with a tent fabric made of canvas on the exterior and reflective material in the interior which increases the intensity of light produced by built grow lights through. reflection. However, major drawback of the conventional grow tents involves the subject to uneven light reflection produced by the grow lights effecting the growth of the plants grown in the grow tents. The present invention provides a unique structured grow tent built with at least six walls having hexagonal pattern on the interior reflective surface of the grow tent that improves the reflection of the light produced by the grow lights in the grow tent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a bag or case used to store and carry a microphone stand. Most of the microphone stand carry bags are only suitable to carry the boom and poles of the stand and are not designed for the stand base which is mostly circular and perpendicularly attached to the microphone stand poles. The portable microphone stand bag of present invention resolves the above described problems and provides better user experience. The portable microphone stand bag of present invention includes assembly that consists of an upper compartment and a lower compartment. The advantage of the present invention is that the microphone stand, and the base can be securely stored and carried to any location with ease and comfort. The unique upper and lower compartment of the bag provides an equally distributed balanced load and makes it easy to carry the bag.

Abstract: A quick release pool skimmer basket apparatus includes a tapered attachment apparatus, a basket having a sidewall, a filter element coupled to the sidewall to move between an open position and a closed position, and a handle extending upwardly from the basket. A trigger in the handle is operatively coupled to the filter element to hold the filter element in the closed position. Activation of the trigger releases the bottom from the closed position to the open position.

Abstract: A quick release pool skimmer basket apparatus includes an adjustable attachment apparatus, a basket having a sidewall, a filter element coupled to the sidewall to move between an open position and a closed position, and a handle extending upwardly from the basket. A trigger in the handle is operatively coupled to the filter element to hold the filter element in the closed position. Activation of the trigger releases the bottom from the closed position to the open position.

Abstract: A quick release pool skimmer basket apparatus includes an adjustable attachment apparatus, a basket having a sidewall, a filter element coupled to the sidewall to move between an open position and a closed position, and a handle extending upwardly from the basket. A trigger in the handle is operatively coupled to the filter element to hold the filter element in the closed position. Activation of the trigger releases the bottom from the closed position to the open position.

Abstract: A water distribution valve assembly is carried in a multi-port water distribution valve with a bottom inlet. The assembly includes a bearing plate including a plurality of openings, and a valve plate including a port, the valve plate mounted for rotation on and with respect to the bearing plate. A drive assembly is operably coupled to impart rotational movement of the valve plate with respect to the bearing plate, in response to the application of a flow of water, through a plurality of positions each characterized by the port of the valve plate being aligned with a respective one of the plurality of openings.

Abstract: A device is configured for use in a swimming pool structure, the swimming pool structure including a pool and a circulation system having a piping assembly and a pump for cyclically communicating water through the piping assembly. The device includes a collar configured to be coupled directly to the piping assembly. The collar includes an upstream bottom and a downstream top. The collar includes a lower inlet at the bottom of the collar for fluid communication with the piping assembly. The collar includes an opening at the top of the collar which leads to a chamber within the collar, the chamber for holding an insert. The collar includes an upper inlet at the top of the collar for fluid communication with the pool. The collar includes a truncated open-ended cone carried downstream from the lower inlet.

Abstract: A device for use in a swimming pool includes an insert and a piston having a nozzle. The piston is carried in the insert for reciprocal movement between a lowered position and a raised position in which the piston is in one of a plurality of indexed orientations and the nozzle is above the insert. The piston rotates to an adjacent indexed orientation in response to reciprocation of the piston between the raised and lowered positions in response to the cyclical application of water through the insert. A flange on the insert covers a collar mounted in the floor of the swimming pool so as to conceal the collar from observation.

Abstract: A water distribution valve for directing a flow of fluid through a swimming pool cleaning system includes a housing having an inlet and outlets. A plurality of gates are mounted in the housing, each corresponding to a respective one of the outlets. Each gate is mounted to open and close the respective one of the outlets to which the gate corresponds in response to the flow of fluid into the housing from the inlet.

Abstract: A wearless water distribution valve directs a flow of water through a swimming pool cleaning system and includes a housing having an inlet, outlets, and an inner surface bounding and defining an interior coupled in fluid communication with the inlet and the outlets. The valve further includes a disc having a port, and being mounted for rotation in the housing for movement among a plurality of positions, each position of the disc characterized by the port being aligned with a respective one of the outlets. The valve further includes a drive assembly carried by the housing and operably coupled to impart rotation to the disc. In response to application of the flow of water into the housing, actuation of the drive assembly imparts rotation to the disc through the plurality of positions. The disc is disposed in spaced relation away from the inner surface of the housing.

Abstract: A device for use in a swimming pool structure includes an insert defining a chamber and including a lower surface disposed within the chamber. The device includes a piston having a plurality of nozzles, and a cap having an outlet, the cap mounted for rotation among a plurality of positions each aligning the outlet in the cap with one of the nozzles in the piston. The piston is carried in the chamber for reciprocal movement between a lowered position and a raised position in which one of the nozzles is aligned with the outlet, and the one of the nozzles and the outlet are free of obstruction above the insert.

Abstract: A pool cleaner for cleaning a pool surface includes a wing having an inner edge, a lower outer edge, and an underside extending between the inner edge and lower outer edge. The inner edge and lower outer edge depend from the underside. Engagement holes formed through the inner edge are configured to and capable of non-rigidly engaging the wing to a pool cleaner. Projections are carried on the underside of the wing, and the projections extend beyond both the inner edge and the lower outer edge.

Abstract: A water distribution valve for directing a flow of fluid through a swimming pool cleaning system includes a housing having an inlet and outlets. A plurality of gates are mounted in the housing, each corresponding to a respective one of the outlets. Each gate is mounted to open and close the respective one of the outlets to which the gate corresponds in response to the flow of fluid into the housing from the inlet.

Abstract: A pool cleaner for cleaning a pool surface includes a chassis, arms mounted to the chassis for oscillatory movement in response to water being drawn through the pool cleaner and rotating a drive assembly operatively coupled to the arms, a wing mounted to each of the arms for flapping movement in response to the oscillatory movement of the arms, and projections carried on an underside of the wings for disturbing material from the pool surface to be cleaned by the pool cleaner.

Abstract: A quick release pool skimmer basket apparatus includes a basket having a sidewall, a filter element coupled to the sidewall to move between an open position and a closed position, and a handle extending upwardly from the basket. A trigger in the handle is operatively coupled to the filter element to hold the filter element in the closed position. Activation of the trigger releases the bottom from the closed position to the open position.

Abstract: A device for use in a swimming pool includes an insert and a piston having a nozzle. The piston is carried in the insert for reciprocal movement between a lowered position and a raised position in which the piston is in one of a plurality of indexed orientations and the nozzle is above the insert. The piston rotates to an adjacent indexed orientation in response to reciprocation of the piston between the raised and lowered positions in response to the cyclical application of water through the insert. A flange on the insert covers a collar mounted in the floor of the swimming pool so as to conceal the collar from observation.

Abstract: A quick release pool skimmer basket apparatus includes a basket having a sidewall, a filter element coupled to the sidewall to move between an open position and a closed position, and a handle extending upwardly from the basket. A trigger in the handle is operatively coupled to the filter element to hold the filter element in the closed position. Activation of the trigger releases the bottom from the closed position to the open position.

Abstract: A device for use in a swimming pool includes an insert and a piston having a nozzle. The piston is carried in the insert for reciprocal movement between a lowered position and a raised position in which the piston is in one of a plurality of indexed orientations and the nozzle is above the insert. The piston rotates to an adjacent indexed orientation in response to reciprocation of the piston between the raised and lowered positions in response to the cyclical application of water through the insert. Upper and lower engagement assemblies prevent rotational movement of the piston in the raised and lowered positions. The upper engagement assembly includes upper teeth, lower teeth, and channels formed in the upper teeth which guide the lower teeth through the upper teeth as the piston moves from the lowered position to the raised position.