Hydraulic and earth engineering – Bank – shore – or bed protection – Wave or flow dissipation
Patent
1993-10-29
1999-06-01
Batson, Victor
Hydraulic and earth engineering
Bank, shore, or bed protection
Wave or flow dissipation
405 21, E02B 306
Patent
active
059082658
ABSTRACT:
The formation of artificial reef modules which are primarily cast from concrete. Optionally, tire chips may be added to the concrete is disclosed. Most desirably, the concrete is "waste" concrete obtained from ready mix trucks which have a portion of their load to discharge at the termination of any given job. When tire chips are employed they, of course, are a product of salvaging automobile tires whether for crumb rubber, or otherwise. The modules are formed in an open mold which resembles various geometric solid shapes. Desirably the sides are roughened to have a washboard corrugated type configuration to cause undulations in the module itself which has been demonstrated to be further means of attracting marine life. A related aspect of the present invention looks to the provision of lifting means on each such module to permit the same, with relatively crude equipment, to be moved about in a factory site, onto trucks, onto barges, and off the barge to its ultimate resting place at the bottom of the sea. In connection with the method of forming the modules, an open-ended three-sided mold is formed in the shape of a tetrahedron with the open end facing up. The form is filled with a concrete. Optionally, tire "chips" may be used as an aggregate in the tetrahedron shaped mold with other geometric solid shaped molds optional. Therefore, a major objective is achieved by the present invention in developing a reef module which will inherently attract marine life when clustered with other like modules, while at the same time encapsulating waste material for which there are few environmentally enhancing forms of recycling.
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Batson Victor
Dominik Jack E.
Stability Reefs, Inc.
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