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US 3,938,339 AGranted
Means for showing and/or detouring water currents and the preparation thereof
AssigneeRhone-Poulenc-Textile
InventorYves Gaudard
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Abstract
A jetty arranged angularly to the edges of a body of water so as to slow down or detour the currents having a pile of fill with its base resting on an excavation and an unwoven fabric surrounding the pile with wave breaking means surmounting the pile.
Claims8
A jetty arranged angularly in relation to the edge of a body of water, to slow down and/or detour currents, comprising
- a. a non-woven porous web of randomly arranged continuous filaments lining an excavation and having edges extended beyond the excavation,
- b. a pile of fill in said excavation and extending upwardly therefrom to form a surface outside of the excavation,
- c. said extended edges of said non-woven web being wrapped back against the outside surface of the pile to surround said pile of fill, and
- d. a layer of wave-breaking elements superimposed on said wrapped edges of the non-woven web.
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A process of preparing a jetty which comprises the steps of:
- a. digging an excavation,
- b. laying an unwoven porous fabric of randomly arranged continuous filaments in said excavation with a portion projecting out of the excavation,
- c. piling a fill in and above said excavation,
- d. laying the edges of the unwoven fabric back over said fill to wrap said fill, and
- e. placing on the surface of said unwoven fabric located outside the excavation wave breaking means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.