Floating concrete dock

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1980-06-16

1982-03-09

Butler, Douglas C.

Ships

Floating platform

Float assembly

114263, B63B 3500

Patent

active

043183620

ABSTRACT:
A floating concrete dock comprised of floating units such as headers and fingers with the fingers depending outwardly from headers and connected to one another by continuous hinges. Each floating unit includes a deck portion and a pair of stem portions depending downwardly from the lower surface and spaced inwardly from the side edges of the deck portion and defining a double-T (channel beam) section with a channel between the stem portions, and buoyancy material disposed in the channel. The deck portion and the stem portions have longitudinal tension rods for maintaining the entire floating unit under longitudinal compression.

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