Breakwater pier apparatus
OwnerJohannes J. Treuinventor
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Abstract
A breakwater pier apparatus is disclosed in the preferred and illustrated embodiments. The two embodiments utilize a framework floated in the water by buoyant tanks therein, the apparatus including a rearwardly sloping wave energy absorbing wall adapted to float partly underwater and partly above the surface of the water and facing the direction of the wave action, this wave energy absorbing wall being slotted to intercept part of the wave action to create a force tending to hold the breakwater in vertical position. The framework includes an upright wall which also floats partly out of the water. Appended to the wall is a set of floating stub piers for individual boat anchorages. The apparatus is tethered or guided on an upstanding piling.
Claims10
A breakwater which comprises:
- (a) a framework deployable in a body of water;
- (b) buoyant means supported by said framework, said buoyant means imparting a selected flotation to said framework;
- (c) wave energy absorbing means comprising a surface facing the impinging waves arriving at the breakwater and which
- (1) is a sloping surface;
- (2) is formed of a facing member having openings therein;
- (3) is supported by said framework partly above the surface of the water;
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- (4) has a length corresponding to the length of the breakwater;
- (d) said buoyant means and framework supporting said wave energy absorbing means floating in the water to rise and fall with the tide within a specified range;
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- (e) a solid wall supported by said framework and which
- (1) is spaced behind said wave energy absorbing means;
- (2) has a height approximately equal to the height of said wave energy absorbing means;
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- (3) is approximately coextensive to said wave energy absorbing means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.