Patent
1975-12-08
1977-02-15
Shapiro, Jacob
61 92, 61 96, 61 97, E02D 1700
Patent
active
040075982
ABSTRACT:
An artificial island including at least one modular, upright supporting column having a base portion normally standing on the ocean floor, a platform supported by the column or columns in an operative position above the water surface, one or more floats sufficiently buoyant when filled with air to hold the platform in its operative position, and guide cables guiding the floats between a position of engagement with the platform and a position adjacent the ocean floor is assembled by floating the platform, floats, and column modules on the water surface to a desired location, lowering the column into the water until its base portion engages the ocean floor, attaching the floats to the platform in fixed spatial relationship while the floats are at least partly flooded and submerged, raising the platform by expelling water from the floats by means of compressed air, fastening the raised platform to the column in the operative position, and releasing the floats. The column may be assembled at the selected site from the base portion and modular sections sequentially secured to the platform while the latter still floats on the water surface.
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Berman Hans
Shapiro Jacob
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