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US 4,070,978 AGranted
Floating apparatus for weeding and dredging waterways
OwnerDel P. Virgilioinventor
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Abstract
A floating apparatus including a barge having a plurality of hydraulically actuated stabilizers for positioning the barge at a location. An hydraulically actuated, articulated boom is rotatably mounted on the barge and provided with any of a plurality of instrumentalities at the free end thereof for weeding, dredging or cleaning waterways.
Claims2
A floatable device for cleaning waterways comprising, in combination,
- a. a barge member
- 1. said barge member having a container portion for receiving debris cleaned from a waterway,
- b. an articulated boom member rotatably mounted on said barge member,
- c. control means mounted on said barge for articulating and rotating said boom member,
- d. an instrumentality mounted on the free end of said boom member for cleaning waterways,
- 1. said instrumentality moved with said boom member by said control means and also separately actuated by said control means,
- e. stabilizer means mounted on said barge and movable to engage the bed of a waterway to prevent tipping of said barge when said boom member and said instrumentality are actuated to clean the waterway, and
- f. said barge member in the form of a trailer movable from waterway to waterway.
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