Floating boom end connectors

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1979-04-24

1981-10-20

Corbin, David H.

Hydraulic and earth engineering

Fluid control, treatment, or containment

Floatable matter containment

24201HH, 405 72, E02B 1504

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042957567

ABSTRACT:
A floating boom end connector, for joining the end of an elongated floating material containment boom to the juxtaposed end of a similar boom or to a towing or anchoring plate, incorporates a vertically elongated extrusion having a central web portion joined to the vertically arrayed flat boom fin end by means of an enlarged vertical central cavity within which the fin end is firmly anchored by being bent and re-curved around a central core, or is wedged between two flanking wedging bars secured to the fin end inside the cavity. The end connectors are provided with interfitting scraph jaws locking together two mating connectors or one connector and a mating towing plate.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2255581 (1941-09-01), Ewing
patent: 3251104 (1966-05-01), Sylvester
patent: 3848417 (1974-11-01), Smith et al.
patent: 3991806 (1976-11-01), Abell
patent: 4030304 (1977-06-01), West
patent: 4155664 (1979-05-01), Acheson

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