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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7731452 | Floating barrier units A number of individual barrier units form a floating barrier wall each comprising a housing formed in the general shape of a highway barrier having a top wall, a bottom wall, opposed end walls, and, opposed side walls interconnected to form a hollow interior which i... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7351008 | Floating barrier units A number of individual barrier units form a floating barrier wall each comprising a housing formed in the general shape of a highway barrier having a top wall, a bottom wall, opposed end walls, and, opposed side walls interconnected to form a hollow interior which i... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7258326 | Wall made of bagel split tires Above ground fencing is constructed with slices of used tires from vehicles. There are various arrangements of tire slices and inter-slice binding and anchorage of slices in places. One use for such fencing is for roadway collision safety. One use of the tread porti... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7140599 | Coupling systems and methods for marine barriers A marine barrier system comprising first and second barrier sections and a coupler system. The first and second barrier sections comprise first and second main flotation members, respectively, and each main flotation member contains buoyant material. The coupler sys... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7056059 | Boom with ramped or horizontal skirt structure for slowing the flow speed of buoyant fluids on moving water for fluid, containment, fluid containment system and method A flow slowing boom for slowing the speed of a buoyant fluid floating on moving water having a direction of water movement and a water surface includes a support structure for positioning at the surface of a body of water across the direction of water movement; an a... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7008139 | Oil boom and use thereof A boom (1A) is described, especially for containing oil spills and/or other similar pollution at sea, in rivers or on water surfaces, comprising an elongate body consisting of an element having positive buoyancy relative to the surrounding medium, so that a f... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6976807 | Portable breakwater A portable breakwater system for use in a body of water includes first and second support members adapted to be positioned on the floor of the body of water and a curtain attached between the first and second support members. The first and second support members all... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6341920 | System for collecting oil on water A system for collecting oil on water comprises an oil boom (1) and a floating collection container (2), which is connected to an opening (4) in the boom by a pumping hose (3). The pumping hose (3) is flexible so that it can follow the wave motions of the ... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6079904 | Transportable collapsible protective barrier, especially against high water The transportable, foldable protective barrier, especially against high water, contains a series of supports of supporting elements articulately joined with one another, a number of parallel pipe rods for the joining of the supports as well as a number of... | 06/27/2000 |
| 5927899 | Device in connection with a floating body The present invention relates to an arrangement for a floating body consisting of containers made from a flexible material positioned laterally in relation to one another and capable of being filled with air or other gas. Containers thereby communicate wi... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5727902 | Method and apparatus for maintaining the position of a containment boom in a fast flowing waterway A method for maintaining the position of a containment boom in a fast flowing waterway. Firstly, providing an elongate containment boom having a first side, a second side, a first end, a second end and a longitudinal axis. The containment boom consists of... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5713698 | Synthetic boomstick coupling system A system for coupling synthetic boomsticks having a pair of spaced parallel substantially horizontal coupling flanges projecting axially therefrom. The flanges form a loop receiving space therebetween and a coupling pin passes through this space between t... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5679247 | Boom netting material for contamination containment A spill retention boom is formed of a tubular mesh with an integral rib and filled with an absorbent material.... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5591333 | Modular shoreline oil spill barrier assembly A barrier assembly is provided for protecting shorelines and structures adjacent shorelines from damage attributable to oil spills. The barrier assembly includes a flexible sheet material that is impermeable to oil. One surface of the flexible sheet mater... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5580185 | Oil containment boom A system for containing and collecting oil spills and other water surface contaminants is provided. More specifically, the invention comprises a plurality of oil containment boom sections adapted to be coupled together, each section including a body fabri... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5509756 | Oil boom end connector An end connector for use with oil containment booms, wherein the connector design utilizes a stress distribution technique which avoids the need for proximal end flanges, internal cavity traction surfaces, and further avoids bolts, rivets, or other fasten... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5478168 | Pollutant containment boom An arrangement for containing oil spillage comprises an inflatable boom and suspended in the water therefrom an anti-pollution skirt and/or a deformable tube, cables and a generally horizontal membrane to restrict movement of the boom. The boom may be dep... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5453190 | Reinforced net for recovering debris along a water bottom A reinforced net apparatus, defined by a recovery net portion and a rear bag portion, the recovery net portion including a lower body panel portion of reinforced heavy duty netting, interconnected to left and right side panels of netting, and a top body p... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5439315 | Synthetic boomstick A boomstick is formed from an elongated hollow cylindrical body divided into plurality of compartments by axially spaced traversed partitions and enclosed at its end by sealing end caps. Preferably, an axially extending keel forming ballast will be provid... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5362180 | Floatation boom with collapsible floatation casing A containment boom having the shape of an elongated floatable flexible wall member which is capable of being wound on a spool and deployed therefrom as described. The floatable flexible wall member has a vented flotation tubular membrane. A flexible sheet... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5267813 | Oil containment curtain Flotation spars are detachably connected along the length of an oil containment curtain to insure the verticality of a floating containment boom. Spaced tubular sleeves extend vertically along one side of each band. The sleeves are so configured as to piv... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5253953 | Boom for containing oil spills A boom includes a plurality of boom sections joined end to end. Each boom section includes two or more parallel inflatable chambers which are joined with a weighted curtain which is reinforced for strength. Boom sections are stored compactly on respective... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5238327 | Dual-chamber inflatable oil boom Floating oil are containment boom sections are provided with one or a plurality of collapsible and inflatable bladders or buoyancy chambers, extending along the upper edge of the boom section's skirt, and enclosed inside an elongated gas-impervious sleeve... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5223135 | Swimming pool cleaner A net for removing debris is mounted on a frame which is extendable across the width of a swimming pool. The frame has a rounded or ball-type element at each lower end which rotates about an axis to facilitate travel and to protect the swimming pool surfa... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5195843 | Ceramic foam body having closed cell structure A cylindrical ceramic foam body that can be the sole buoyant member of an oil-containment boom is produced by firing a mixture of fine particles of ceramic precursor, a source of carbon such as silicon carbide, and a metallic oxide. In the boom, a stack o... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5195842 | Oil spill tent An apparatus for containing and cleaning up an oil spill at an offshore oil platform in a body of water includes a hollow circular ring surrounding the oil rig and supporting a depending frustoconical skirt wall anchored to the ground by biasing springs w... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5188482 | Oil confinement device A device for confining oil floating upon the surface of a large body of water employs a horizontally deployable continuous pliable oil-resistant wall having parallel upper and lower edges. A multitude of uniformly spaced vertical support members are attac... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5176467 | Oil boom An oil boom for containing floating oil spills having an hose with a plurality of tubing members mounted to the periphery of the hose. Each tubing member has a nozzle assembly for directing an air jet stream against an oil spill along the top surface of t... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5165821 | Oil-sorbing boom A combined skirted oil-sorbing boom and oil-sorbing sweep has a buoyant inner core and an oil-sorbent outer core of a spirally wound sheet of polymeric, oleophilic, hydrophobic microfibers. Adhesively bonded to a sheet of the microfibers at the outer face... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5152636 | Reel mountable boom apparatus A contamination containment boom section of the type adapted to contain a contaminant in a preselected location on a body of liquid, the boom having an elongated flotation body adapted to float on the body of liquid and a weighted skirt member depending f... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5149226 | Flexible oil spill containment boom An oil spill containment boom deployable normally by one person between a pier and vessel especially useful for oil transfer operations from ship to shore that will remain in position on the water regardless of changes in the ship draft comprising a float... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5114272 | Detachable boom and method for its use The present invention discloses a detachable boom for containing and recovering fluids spilled on open water. The invention has a float system using a plurality of floats arrayed along a flexible, stretch-resistant cork line, a substantially rectangular b... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5102262 | Fence for enclosing impurities floating on water A fence for enclosing impurities floating on water including a series of bands of two-ply material with the two plies fused together in selected areas including the entire upper edge and with weighted floating pickets inserted vertically between the two p... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5102261 | Floating containment boom A floating containment boom for containment and isolation of waterborne pollutants, such as oil, silt, medical waste, bacteria, debris, and suspended particulates. The containment boom is comprised of a floatation unit, a ballast, a continuous curtain of ... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5071286 | Floating boom for confining waterborne contaminates A horizontally elongate floating boom for confining contaminate material floating on the surface of a body of water. There is a flotation section having a substantially vertical contaminate impervious skirt section extending downwardly therefrom. The skir... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5064309 | Dockside spill containment system A system for containing spillage from a tanker at a moorage. The system in its deflated stated state remains submerged so as not to obstruct the passage of a vessel thereover. Once a vessel is moored in place thereover, the perimeter boom is inflated to b... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5054960 | Floating barriers for containing oil spills Floating barriers are provided with containment means (doublecoated with polyvinyl chloride) of woven twisted nylon thread and with low density polyurethane floating means. The two previous characteristics, along with a change in arrangement, size and sha... | 10/08/1991 |
| 5040918 | Oil boom and method Floating containment booms for containing petroleum and similar product spills on a water surface such as at sea, in harbors, rivers and the like, and methods for forming the same. In accordance with the method, an elongate sheet of flexible material and ... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5032212 | Petroleum containment barrier, apparatus for the manufacture thereof and method and apparatus for recovering floating petroleum The present invention relates to a continuous containment barrier comprising a plurality of compartmentalized inflatable chambers having, attached to the bottom thereof, an impermeable keel which stabilizes the containment barrier and assists in containme... | 07/16/1991 |
| 5006014 | Boom sticks A boom stick for use with log booms in water transport and storage of logs is formed by a plurality of vehicle tires (used) arranged in substantially axially aligned, side by side relationship with their tread surfaces forming the outer periphery of the b... | 04/09/1991 |
