Floatable oil fence

Details Floatable oil fence Floatable oil fence

1974-03-29

1977-04-05

Shapiro, Jacob

Ships

Building

Canal and ferry boats

9 11A, 114267, 114270, E02B 1504

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040154319

ABSTRACT:
A floatable oil fence or boom for limiting the extent to which oil or other matter floating on a body of water can spread. The floatable boom includes an elongated tubular structure for containing air under pressure so as to be rendered floatable. An upper fin is fixed and extends longitudinally along the tubular structure, projecting upwardly therefrom to oppose the movement of water over the tubular structure. A lower fin is fixed to and extends longitudinally along the tubular structure, projecting downwardly therefrom to oppose the movement of the surface of a body of water and any material floating on the surface beneath the tubular structure. A partition structure extends longitudinally along the interior of the tubular structure to divide the latter into a plurality of longitudinally extending chambers which are prevented from communicating with each other by the partition structure, so that in the event that the tubular structure ruptures at one of these chambers the tubular structure nevertheless will remain afloat.

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patent: 3783622 (1974-01-01), Gambel
patent: 3786637 (1974-01-01), Muramatsu
patent: 3792589 (1974-02-01), Sayles
patent: 3807177 (1974-04-01), Oberg
patent: 3849989 (1974-11-01), Preus
"Offshore Boom" A Trade Flyer of Clean Water Inc. P.O. Box 1002, Toms River, N.J. 08753, 3/12/73, C. 1973.

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