Hydraulic and earth engineering – Bank – shore – or bed protection – Wave or flow dissipation
Reexamination Certificate
2007-03-20
2007-03-20
Barrett, Suzanne Dino (Department: 3673)
Hydraulic and earth engineering
Bank, shore, or bed protection
Wave or flow dissipation
C405S080000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10248919
ABSTRACT:
A baffle apparatus and method for directing fluid flow to reduce damage to an energy dissipating basin that includes an inlet, an outlet, a floor, a sidewall that extends upward from an edge of the floor, and an opposing sidewall that extends upward from an opposing edge of the floor defining a basin interior with a basin span between the sidewall and the opposing sidewall. The baffle apparatus includes a deflector structure that is generally planar and is fixedly or adjustably positioned substantially transverse to a downstream direction flow in the basin, the deflector structure spanning between the sidewall and the opposing sidewall above the floor. Also included, is a retaining structure for fixedly or adjustably positioning and securing the deflector structure to the sidewall. The deflector structure directs flow in the basin to flow in a downstream direction from a reverse upstream direction adjacent to the basin floor.
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Energy and Water: Sustainable Development, Proceedings of Theme D, (ASCE) New York, New York.
Hanna Leslie J.
Mefford Brent W.
Barrett Suzanne Dino
Jackson Roger A.
Spahn Gay Ann
United States of America Department of the Interior, Bureau of R
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