Hydraulic and earth engineering – Fluid control – treatment – or containment – Floatable matter containment
Patent
1989-11-13
1991-12-10
Taylor, Dennis L.
Hydraulic and earth engineering
Fluid control, treatment, or containment
Floatable matter containment
405 70, 405 72, E02B 1504
Patent
active
050712861
ABSTRACT:
A horizontally elongate floating boom for confining contaminate material floating on the surface of a body of water. There is a flotation section having a substantially vertical contaminate impervious skirt section extending downwardly therefrom. The skirt section has first and second ends which are adapted to overlap one another. A substantially vertical net section extends downwardly from the skirt section, and has a ballast section attached along a lower edge thereof. Apparatus is provided for securing a first end of a skirt section and a second end of a skirt section together when they are overlapped. In a first embodiment, the ballast section is adapted to rest on the floor of the body of water so as to maintain the boom in a fixed position. In a second embodiment, apparatus is provided for contracting the boom about a portion of the body of water which is encircled by the boom. The contracting apparatus may be a first purse line attached to the flotation section, a second purse line attached to the lower edge of the skirt section, and a third purse line attached to the lower edge of the net section.
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Olsen Arlen L.
Taylor Dennis L.
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