Oil containment barge assembly

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1985-03-07

1986-12-02

Taylor, Dennis L.

Hydraulic and earth engineering

Fluid control, treatment, or containment

Floatable matter containment

405 63, 405 70, E02B 1504

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046261320

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for containing an oil spill floating on a body of water, including a plurality of barges attached end-to-end in an endless configuration, or circle, around the oil spill, and in which the open spaces between the adjacent end portions of the barges are sealed by oil-impervious curtains suspended from the adjacent barges and clamp means clamping the opposite end portions of the curtains flush against the corresponding inner sidewall surfaces of the adjacent barges.

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patent: 3592005 (1971-07-01), Greenwood
patent: 3599434 (1971-08-01), Missud
patent: 3630033 (1971-12-01), Tuttle
patent: 3925991 (1975-12-01), Poche
patent: 4059962 (1977-11-01), Milgram

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