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US 5,240,608 AGranted
Apparatus for waste free dredging of waterways and the fabrication of building materials
OwnerAlex H. Gurfinkel, Vladimir Shepsisinventors
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Abstract
This invention relates generally to dredging under harbors and waterways and fabricating building materials and more particularly to an apparatus for dredging that produces no waste and uses the dredged material for useful building products. Furthermore, all off the equipment that is used for the dredging and fabricating building materials from the dredged materials placed upon at least one floating badge.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a. at least one buoyant platform means for supporting equipment at the surface of a waterway;
- b. means for raising sediment from beneath a waterway to the at least one buoyant platform means at the surface of the water;
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- c. means for fabricating molded brick from said sediment supported by said at least one platform means at the surface of said waterway.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a. at least one buoyant platform means for supporting equipment at the surface of a waterway;
- b. means for raising sediment from beneath a waterway to the at least one buoyant platform means at the surface of the waterway;
- and
- c. means for fabricating lightweight aggregate from said sediment supported by said at least one platform means at the surface of said waterway.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a. at least one buoyant platform means for supporting equipment at the surface of a waterway;
- b. means for raising sediment from beneath a waterway to the at least one buoyant platform means at the surface of the waterway;
- c. means for fabricating building materials from said sediment supported by said at least one platform means at the surface of said waterway;
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- d. means for separating the raised sediment into coarse components and fine components, said means for separating being supported by said at least one platform means at the surface of said waterway.
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