Thermal protective device for tabular icebergs
AssigneeITI Limited
InventorGeorges L. Mougin
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Abstract
A device (4) for thermally protecting the side of a tabular iceberg (1) produces a vertical layer of calm water (7) between itself and the vertical side wall of the tabular iceberg. This thermal protective device is suspended from a mechanical protective device, which may comprise a wall of floating towers (5). The protective device comprises panels (8) of woven or non-woven material parallel to the vertical side wall of the tabular iceberg, each of said panels having a width greater than its height, being suspended from a horizontal cable (10) passing through a top hem of the panel and being stretched taut by ballast (9).
Claims8
A protective device for thermally protecting the side of an iceberg floating in warm sea by producing a vertical layer of calm water between the protective device and the side wall of the protected iceberg, wherein a thermal protective device is suspended from a mechanical protective device floating in the warm seawater independently of the protected iceberg, and the thermal protective device comprises panels of material disposed at the side of the iceberg, each of said panels having a width greater than its height, being suspended from horizontal cables passing through a top hem of the panel and being stretched taut by a horizontal cable passing through a bottom hem of the panel, said horizontal cable being fastened to runners threaded onto a suspension cable and a lifting cable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.