IP Library Granted Patent US 12,486,685
Granted Patent B2
US 12,486,685 · App. 16/974,414 · Granted Dec 2, 2025

Diverging and converging swells to make surfing waves

Inventor: Walter Judson Bennett (Mechanicsville, VA)
E04H4/0006A63B69/0093E04H4/14
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Patent No.
US 12,486,685
App. No.
16/974,414
Granted
Dec 2, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed in the current invention is a way to build a low cost and highly efficient surf pool by using diverging and converging swells to create waves for surfing. When a plurality of individual plunger wave generating devices or a single triangle pyramid shaped plunger, force a diverging swell into a first end of a surf pool. The swell then diverges or expands outward until the swell is wide enough to break over an artificial surfing reef. When a plurality of individual plunger wave generating devices in different opposite locations in the surf pool pushes a swell into the surf pool, as the swell transverses it converges into a single swell, which then continues to travel and breaks over an artificial surfing reef.

Claims (1)

1 . A wave pool comprising: A first V-shaped shaped wall having a triangle pyramid shaped plunger configured to push an expanding swell into a body of water towards a first beach area; the first beach having a front side located across from the plunger and a rear side opposite the front side; A second V-shaped wall to the having a triangle pyramid shaped plunger configured to push an expanding swell into a body of water toward a second beach area, the second beach having a front side located across from the plunger and a rear side opposite the front side; A third V-shaped wall having a triangle pyramid shaped plunger configured to push an expanding swell into a body of water toward a third beach area; Wherein the second v-shaped wall is located on the rear side of the first beach area and the third v-shaped wall is located on the rear side of the second beach area.

Continuity (1)
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