Flooding Gates Patents (Class 114/37)
  • Air-propelled vessel with articulating member
    Publication number: 20080173224
    Abstract: A wide, flat-bottom, buoyant, amphibious hull with a powered articulating member mounted on the deck. The hull is propelled by at least one engine-driven propeller rotating above the hull. The hull has a shallow draft and distributes its weight over a large area. These features cooperatively provide a vehicle capable of installing or servicing power transmission poles, towers, or other structures located in environmentally sensitive wetlands, swamps, marshes, shallow water, or terrain which is not efficiently accessible by other means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventor: Ronald J. Thibodaux
  • Suction dredger barge
    Patent number: 4374504
    Abstract: The invention relates to a suction dredge barge in which the air chambers (8,9) on either side of the hold (2) can be filled with mud via an overflow (14) at the top edge of the hold (2) said air chambers (8,9) having inclined bottoms (10,11) and discharge openings (12,13) towards the hold at the lower edge of said inclined bottoms (10,11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1983
    Assignee: IHC Holland N.V.
    Inventor: Rudolf H. Loevendie