Bridge, dock and pier shoring-up bulk-delivery floating conveyor unit
OwnerRonald Treveloniinventor
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Abstract
An elongated narrow bulk delivery and depositing bouyant conveyor belt device is operable to shore up bridges, docks and/or piers in environments having operating space confined by low overhead and narrow berths between adjacent spaced apart pilings. The bouyant conveyor belt structure is alternately extendable and retractable in each of shallow and deep water. The bouyant conveyor belt structure is stabilized by one or between two linear axially extending substantially parallel sides of spaced apart floating platform barges. The barge(s) typically mount hopper and vibratable chute structure receivable of bulk typically rip rap fill material and feedable thereof onto the bouyant conveyor belt structure, thereafter deposited by a revolving of the conveyor belt structure.
Claims29
An aggregate delivery and depositing apparatus for shoring-up upright underwater support structures of alternately bridges, docks, pier supporting bulkheads and narrowly spaced-apart upright sea bottom-embodied pilings extending upwardly from the sea-bottom to be shored up by aggregate to be deposited thereon, comprising in combination:
- at least one first independently self-floating aggregate conveyor means;
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- a barge adapted to feed the aggregate to the self-floating aggregate conveyor means which is adapted to extend between the narrowly spaced-apart upright sea bottom-embodied pilings and adapted to transport the aggregate from a position substantially at water-level, downwardly toward an ultimate destination for deposit therefrom onto the underwater sea bottom juxtaposed said pilings;
- the at least one first independently self-floating aggregate conveyor means further comprising:
- a) opposite front and rear ends with an axially-extending length therebetween and a first predetermined width along said axially-extending length thereof;
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- b) a revolvable conveyor means including an upper portion movable and conveyable along said axially-extending length, said aggregate transportable on said upper portion, said length and width predetermined such that the self-floating aggregate conveyor means is floatably insertable between said narrowly spaced-apart pilings.
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