# US 8,783,199 B2 · Modular floating platform system

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- Number: US 8,783,199 B2
- Document ID: US8783199B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 13/276,072
- Filed: 2011-10-18
- Published: 2012-10-18
- Granted: 2014-07-22
- Earliest claimed: 2011-04-15
- Assignees: Industria Mecanica NTC Ltda.
- Applicants: Bernardo Shih Cion Shen
- Inventors: Bernardo Shih Cion Shen
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8783199B2

## CPC

- B63B 35/38: Rigidly-interconnected pontoons
- B63B 35/58: Rafts, i.e. free floating waterborne vessels, of shallow draft, with little or no freeboard, and having a platform or floor for supporting a user (lifeboats, life-rafts or the like B63C9/02)
- B63B: SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING (arrangements of vessel ventilation, heating, cooling, or air-conditioning B63J2/00; floating substructures as supports of dredgers or soil-shifting machines E02F9/06)

## 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.

## Claims

### Claim 1

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.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The modular floating platform system of claim 1, further comprising protection bars fixed to edges of the platform.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The modular floating platform system of claim 2, wherein the protection bars are fixed by nuts and bolts coupled to the rings of the blocks.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The modular floating platform system of claim 1, further comprising finishing pins having circular lobules received in hollows under the chamfers.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The modular floating platform system of claim 4, wherein the finishing pins having an upper surface with one of a circular and rectangular shape.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The modular floating platform system of claim 1, wherein said pins are configured for attaching laterally adjacent ones of the blocks together, and further comprising additional pins configured for attaching vertically ones of the blocks together.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The modular floating platform system of claim 6 wherein the additional pins are longer than the pins configured for attaching the laterally adjacent ones of the blocks.