Hydraulic and earth engineering – Fluid control – treatment – or containment – Floatable matter containment
Patent
1992-06-29
1993-08-03
Taylor, Dennis L.
Hydraulic and earth engineering
Fluid control, treatment, or containment
Floatable matter containment
405 63, 405 66, 405 70, E02B 1504
Patent
active
052323102
ABSTRACT:
An oil containment boom consists of sections each of which includes upper and bottom self supporting battens, oil impervious battens sealed thereto and to an inflatable chamber. The barriers and chambers of adjacent sections are sealed to a rod to which the ends of the battens of the sections are pivotally connected to provide flexible joints. End sections are connectable to establish an impoundment about an oil leaking ship. The joints are immobilized as the boom is formed with the adjacent ends of the ballasting battens at each joint defining a predetermined angular relationship with each other. The angular relationship may be 180.degree. and the shaping of the boom made possible by the limited flexibility of the battens of the desired boom shape may be effected by having alternate joints held in an obtuse angular relationship. In preferred embodiments, the last of a series of sections to be deployed overboard having a manually operated valve in control of the pressurized cannister by which its chamber is inflated and the valves of the cannisters for inflating the other chambers each of a type opened by gas under pressure derived from a previously inflated chamber.
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