Modular floating structures with anti pollution barrier
AssigneeCubisystem Sarl
InventorPhilippe Veyrieres
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Abstract
A floating structure comprising floating, modular, parallelepipedic blocks whose vertical edges are provided with lugs in which connecting elements are inserted in order to assemble the blocks. The connecting elements entail a support key, which at its upper part bears stanchion extending above upper surface of the floating structure, the stanchion being provided with an eyelet capable of constituting a point of attachment for net. One or more anchoring points are situated below and to the interior of the floating structure. Also disclosed are applications of the floating structures, including as anti-pollution barriers.
Claims8
A floating structure comprising:
- floating, modular, parallelepipedic blocks having vertical edges with lugs;
- connecting elements inserted into the lugs to assemble the blocks;
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- wherein one or more of the connecting elements each comprise an anchoring key providing an anchoring point, the anchoring key comprising:
- an upper part with an upper surface flush with upper surfaces of the blocks;
- a rod engaged in the lugs of several adjacent blocks in order to assemble the blocks, the rod extending from a lower surface of the upper part and having a bore extending in a longitudinal direction of the rod for receiving and securing one end of a rope such that the rope extends through the bore and out an end of the rod opposite the upper part and below the floating structure, the bore being a blind bore which is closed where the rod meets the upper part of the anchoring key and comprising an upper portion which extends above the lugs;
- wherein the one end of the rope is secured inside the bore by a stop component comprising a stop rod extending perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction of the rod and passing through the upper portion of the bore and through two openings hollowed transversely through the rod;
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- wherein the stop rod rests on a washer which rests on one of the lugs of the blocks.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.