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US 4,729,691 AGranted
Backshore sill beach and dune erosion control system
OwnerJay W. Sampleinventor
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Abstract
A backshore sill beach and dune erosion control system including a supporting apron of a permeable fabric spread across a shoreline area of beach and dune being protected and held in place by a toe scour protection tube and further including a plurality of sand-filled geotextile containers which are placed upon the supporting apron in an end to end relationship along the shoreline providing a predesigned soft force absorbative horizontal surface decreasing water velocity upon impact therewith.
Claims9
A backshore sill beach and dune erosion control system comprising:
- a supporting protective apron formed of weather and water resistant cloth, said apron including a flat base portion and an angularly sloped portion extending seaward of said base portion, a toe scour anchor tube connected to the seaward end of said apron sloped portion, and a plurality of longitudinal sand-filled geotextile containers placed upon said apron base portion each extending longitudinally shore parallel to the incoming surf, said sand-filled geotextile containers being specifically placed upon the beach in a pyramidal longitudinally extending shore parallel relation to an area being protected whereby wave action impacts upon relatively soft surfaces of said containers and is dissipated before normally impacting surfaces that would otherwise be eroded.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.