Apparatus for protecting bridge pillars
AssigneeTokyo Fabric Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSoichiro Shimizu
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Abstract
An apparatus for protecting a bridge pillar which comprises a protecting cylinder adapted to be mounted outside said bridge pillar so as to surround the latter, a plurality of elastic connecting rods for interconnecting said bridge pillar and said protecting cylinder, said connecting rods being connected to said bridge pillar so that they may be pivoted in every direction; and a float mounted on or in said protecting cylinder for floating it in water, in such a manner that at least half of said protecting cylinder is immersed in water.
Claims8
An apparatus for protecting a bridge pillar comprising a protecting cylinder adapted to be mounted outside of said bridge pillar so as to surround the latter;
- a plurality of circumferentially spaced elastic connecting rods for interconnecting said bridge pillar and said protecting cylinder, said connecting rods being connected to said bridge pillar as well as to said protecting cylinder so that they may be pivoted in every direction and being extended at right angles to said bridge pillar and said protecting cylinder;
- an outer cushion pad adhered to the outside of said protecting cylinder;
- an inner cushion pad adhered to the inside of said protecting cylinder;
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- means for floating said protecting cylinder in water in such a manner that at least half of said protecting cylinder is immersed in water.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.