Floating body
OwnerGerhard Wippermanninventor
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Abstract
The invention relates to a floating body, especially a floating body used as a support for an underwater tunnel (11). In order to obtain a high degree of freedom and a large amount of stability while at the same time guaranteeing easy assembly, a frame structure (49) is provided in the form of a horizontal grating, wherein floats, ballast bodies, dam chambers or similar useful hollow bodies (50) are fixed in the rectangular, especially quadratic free areas of said grating as tanks.
Claims13
A floating body having a tunnel (11), which extends between two companionways (6, 7), lies below waterline and has an at least partially transparent wall, wherein the companionways (6, 7) are coordinated with a frame (2, 3) which has buoyancy bodies and ballast bodies, floats on water and surrounds an area open water, and the tunnel (11) crosses below the area of open water (F).
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