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US 8,783,199 B2Granted
Modular floating platform system
AssigneeIndustria Mecanica NTC Ltda.
InventorBernardo Shih Cion Shen
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Abstract
A modular floating platform system includes parallelepiped-shaped floating blocks, each floating block (1) having rings (2), cavities (3) and projections (4) on the lateral faces. The projections (4) are mated with the cavities (3) on the lateral faces of the adjacent floating blocks (1), and pins are inserted into corresponding rings (2), to assemble the floating platform.
Claims7
A modular floating platform system having securely interconnected rectangular floating blocks, comprising:
- a plurality of rectangular blocks comprising plastic material, attachable to one another to form a floating platform, each rectangular block having a substantially parallelepiped shape with a plurality of lateral faces;
- semicircles formed in an upper portion of each rectangular block with a semicircle arranged in each quadrant of the rectangular block;
- chamfers formed in each upper corner of the rectangular blocks;
- rings centrally placed on the lateral faces of the rectangular blocks;
- cavities arranged in pairs on two of the lateral faces of the rectangular blocks;
- projections arranged in pairs on the remaining ones of the lateral faces of the rectangular blocks, a pair of the projections on one of the rectangular blocks being configured to be mated with a corresponding pair of the cavities on an adjacent one of the rectangular blocks;
- pins configured to be inserted into the rings to attach the adjacent blocks together, each pin comprising a plurality of grips in an upper portion and a coupling in a lower portion thereof;
- caps comprising a hexagonal structure with slits, the caps being configured to connect to the upper portion of the pins, wherein the grips of the pins are arranged to couple with the slits of the hexagonal structure of the caps, and wherein the caps are arranged to be inserted in the semicircles of the adjacent rectangular blocks.
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