Hydraulic and earth engineering – Marine structure or fabrication thereof – Dock
Patent
1997-04-04
1999-03-30
Graysay, Tamara L.
Hydraulic and earth engineering
Marine structure or fabrication thereof
Dock
114263, 114266, 441 45, B63C 102
Patent
active
058880240
ABSTRACT:
A floating dock comprising a pair of flotation tanks arranged in parallel side-by-side relation, a plurality of transverse, equispaced double-saddle brackets having a pair of spaced-apart saddles each adapted to receive a flotation tank straddling said tanks along the length of the tanks, and connector means adapted to partially encircle each tank and to seat in a recess between corrugations extending from each saddle for connecting the tanks to the saddle brackets. The flotation tank comprises a cylindrical smooth inner wall and a corrugated outer wall coextensive and concentric with said inner wall defining a plurality of equispaced peripheral annular flotation cells extending along the inner cylindrical wall, and a closure plate at each end of the cylindrical walls connected to the inner and outer walls in a water-tight relationship defining a central flotation cell. The outer corrugated wall has a plurality of peripheral recesses extending circumferentially around said outer wall along the length of the outer wall. The floating dock has longitudinal side planks and a top deck, preferably a wood deck extending between and attached to the longitudinal side planks. The floating dock additionally may include one or more floating finger docks connected to a side of the floating dock perpendicular or parallel thereto.
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Broom David K.
Kime Geofrey Grant
Mills Edward D.
Big "O" Inc.
Fors Arne I.
Graysay Tamara L.
Lagman Frederick L.
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