Floating concrete dock
OwnerHenry W. Junginventor
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Abstract
A floating concrete dock comprised of floating units such as headers and fingers with the fingers depending outwardly from headers and connected to one another by continuous hinges. Each floating unit includes a deck portion and a pair of stem portions depending downwardly from the lower surface and spaced inwardly from the side edges of the deck portion and defining a double-T (channel beam) section with a channel between the stem portions, and buoyancy material disposed in the channel. The deck portion and the stem portions have longitudinal tension rods for maintaining the entire floating unit under longitudinal compression.
Claims8
A floating concrete dock comprising:
- a header in the form of a double-T channel beam, open at both ends and the bottom, consisting of a deck portion and a pair of stem portions depending downwardly and spaced inwardly from the side edges of said deck portion to impart rigidity to said deck portion, said stem portion having walls opposite the facing walls which slope inwardly and having free end portions defining the channel entrance, said deck portion and said stem portions having longitudinal tensioning means maintaining said deck portion and said stem portion under longitudinal compression;
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- buoyancy material disposed wholly within the open channel defined by said deck portion and said stem portions.
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