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US 7,160,057 B2Granted
Protective element for a breakwater or wave-retarding construction
AssigneeHbg Civiel B.V.
InventorsJan Sebastiaan Reedijk, Martijn Klabbers, Markus Muttray
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Abstract
A protective element for a breakwater or wave-retarding construction comprises a body that has at least two opposing projections. The projections are on either side of a flat base and extend transversely thereto. The periphery of the base is non-circular, so that rolling of the protective element under the influence of the beating of the waves is resisted.
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A protective element, comprising:
- a substantially square base with opposite planar sides;
- two primary projections that each extend from a different respective one of said opposite planar sides;
- and four auxiliary projections that each extend from a different, respective corner of said substantially square base and that are spaced apart from each other by substantially equally sized recesses, each of said four auxiliary projections extending in a direction of a diagonal of said base crossing the respective corner and having opposite faces that are each substantially parallel to a respective said planar side of said substantially square base,
- said protective element being heavier than water and constructed and arranged to rest on a feature to be protected from breaking waves.
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A protective element, comprising:
- a substantially square base with opposite planar sides;
- two primary projections that each extend from a different respective one of said opposite planar sides, each of said two primary projections being a substantially rectangular parallelepiped;
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- four auxiliary projections that each extend from a different respective corner of said substantially square base and that are spaced apart from each other by substantially equally
- sized trapezoidal recesses, each of said four auxiliary projections extending in a direction of a diagonal of said base crossing the respective corner and having a pointed shape defined by two flat surfaces that are each coplanar with a respective adjacent one said two flat surfaces of an adjacent one of said auxiliary projections,
- said protective element being heavier than water and constructed and arranged to rest on a feature to be protected from breaking waves.
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A protective element, comprising:
- a first parallelepiped having a first length measured along a longitudinal axis of said element and a first width that is less than said first length, longitudinal ends of said first parallelepiped being substantially square and substantially parallel to a first plane;
- a second parallelepiped having a second length measured along the longitudinal axis of said element and a second width that is greater than said second length, said first length being greater than said second length and said first width being less than said second width, longitudinal ends of said second parallelepiped being substantially square and substantially parallel to the first plane,
- said first parallelepiped extending symmetrically through a center of said second parallelepiped and being oriented so that longitudinal faces of said first parallelepiped are at 45° to longitudinal faces of said second parallelepiped,
- each of the longitudinal faces of said second parallelepiped having two coplanar flat areas separated by a trapezoidal recess,
- said protective element being heavier than water and constructed and arranged to rest on a feature to be protected from breaking waves.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.