258 85 http://www.patentstorm.us/ http://www.patentstorm.us/images/logo.gif http://www.patentstorm.us/rss/class/applications/rss-405.xml Recent patent applications filings in USPTO Class 405 Hydraulic and earth engineering. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:00:39 patents@patentstorm.us en http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120040767/description.html

Application Number:  20120040767

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Culleton, Paul David; Wilson, Steven; Shuttleworth, Andrew Bryan; Andrews, David Graham; Van Raam, Carolus Hermanus

The present invention relates to an area suitable for equestrian use. The area comprises an upper, equestrian surface layer, and a sub-surface support layer which includes a plurality of laterally arranged load bearing structural modules. Each module comprises a top wall and a bottom wall spaced therefrom by one or more supporting elements so as to define an interior volume between the top and bottom walls, and is provided with at least one aperture to permit the flow of water into and out of ...
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Application Number:  20120039674

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Baez, Juan I.; Callan, Sean G.

A Control System for monitoring the flow of air in a high capacity column delivery device, wherein a programmable logic controller, uses one or more sensors for sensing changes in air pressure and an air flow in a system to ensure one or more chute continuously and uniformly discharge a material; the programmable logic controller is connected to the system having; one or more sensors and a compressor which is mechanically connected to the system to supply the air to each chute through an air ...
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Application Number:  20120039673

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Hörman, Magnus; Johansson, Peter F.

The invention concern an arrangement for a down-the-hole hammer drill (1), particularly for use in soil consolidation through a process known as “jet grouting”, and comprising a principally cylindrical machine housing (2), an impact mechanism (3) driven by pressurised fluid that, mounted in the machine housing, is arranged to give impacts onto a drill bit (5) fixed mounted in a chuck (4) in the machine housing in a manner that allows reciprocating motion, ...
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Application Number:  20120039672

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Faulkner, Dakota; Oldsen, John G.; Hall, James D.; Stafford, Fred

A cable bolt includes a cable having a first end and a second end, and a barrel and wedge assembly attached to the cable at a position adjacent to the first end of the cable. The barrel and wedge assembly has a first end and a second end. The cable bolt also includes a nut positioned adjacent to the first end of the barrel and wedge assembly and defines a sealed interface therebetween. The nut defines a passageway in fluid communication with the ...
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Application Number:  20120039671

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Baez, Juan I.; Callan, Sean G.

An apparatus for forming a column of compacted material in soil to increase load bearing capabilities and to provide drainage through a system having: a hopper, a stone chamber, a transition splitter pipe having at least two outlet chutes, a vibratory probe mechanism having a tip, a nosecone, and a control system; the vibratory probe mechanism has same number of chutes as the transition splitter pipe; the additional chutes are positioned along the side of the vibratory probe mechanism to ...
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Application Number:  20120039670

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Puttmann, Franz-Josef

The invention relates to a method for inserting a pipe (4) via a pit (1) into an underground borehole, wherein the pipe is flattened before entering the pit, and wherein the pipe is redirected within the pit in the direction of the axis of the borehole, so as to re-deform the pipe before entering the ...
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Application Number:  20120039669

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Claeson, Magnus; Lofgren, Peter

The present invention relates to a method for applying a dispersant or other substances to a water surface. The invention also relates to a device for carrying out the method according to the present invention. Significant for the method according to the present invention is in that a nozzle hose system is used, said system comprising a hose (1) or a set of hoses, that the hose (1) or set of hoses is elevated at both ends, that one end of the hose (1) or set of hoses is ...
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Application Number:  20120039668

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  PARK, Yong-Chan; HUH, Dae-Gee

A geological gas storage system and a method of detecting gas leakage from the geological gas storage system by using pressure monitoring, the geological gas storage system including: a formation structure including a reservoir formed of a permeable rock material in deep onshore/offshore formations, an impermeable cap rock layer formed above the reservoir, and an upper permeable formation formed of a permeable rock material above the cap rock layer; a hollow casing inserted in inner walls of ...
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Application Number:  20120034039

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Hawkins-Maxwell, Victoria Lynn

Disclosed is a landscape erosion control unit for retaining landscaping materials that includes a base structure and a plurality of retention structures attached to the base structure. Each retention structure of the plurality of retention structures includes a strip and a plurality of protruding members extending outwardly from the strip. Each protruding member of the plurality of protruding members is configured to hold the landscaping materials. Each protruding member of the plurality of ...
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Application Number:  20120034038

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Brandon, Demrey G.; Oldsen, John G.; Stankus, John C.; Feyrer, John Daniel; Faulkner, Dakota Donald

A splice tube includes a body, first and second wedge assemblies, first and second plugs, and a securing member that secures at least one of the first and second plugs to the body. The body defines first and second passageways that extend through the body. Each passageway of the body has a first end and a second end. The first and second wedge assemblies each have a passageway. At least a portion of the first and second wedge assemblies are positioned within the first and second passageways, ...
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Application Number:  20120034037

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Feyrer, John; Brandon, Demrey G.; Stankus, John C.

A mine roof and rib support includes a curved support member comprising a roof support arm and a rib support arm with a curved junction portion between the roof support arm and the rib support arm and an aperture defined through the support member for receiving a mine roof bolt. A bearing plate having an upper edge and a lower edge, and a through-hole provided therebetween can be provided wherein the upper and lower edges are positioned in abutment with the roof and rib support arms, ...
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Application Number:  20120034036

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Davison, Gary Robert

A method of installing a stabiliser into a hole provided in an area to be stabilised, the method comprising the step of providing a filler material adapted to be associated with a stabiliser, the filler material, in association with the stabiliser, enabling frictional engagement of the stabiliser with a surrounding environment to be less than the tensile strength of the ...
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Application Number:  20120034035

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Sligar, Allen W.; Perkins, Clifford W.

A tensionable cable bolt including a length of multi-strand cable and an anchoring portion comprised of a shaft received on the cable and attached to the cable at a crimp portion comprising at least one primary crimp with at least one secondary crimp disposed within the primary crimp. The cable may include a mixing portion and the anchor portion may include an expansion anchor threaded onto the shaft. A method of manufacturing the tensionable cable bolt includes providing a length of ...
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Application Number:  20120034034

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  XU, Qi

The disclosure provides an offshore platform and related method, having: a floating structure, a truss assembly coupled to the floating structure, and a heave plate coupled to the truss assembly. The floating structure includes a pontoon adapted to be disposed at least partially below a surface of water in which the offshore platform is disposed; and at least three vertically extending columns coupled to the pontoon, the columns having a larger lateral dimension than the pontoon coupled to the ...
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Application Number:  20120034033

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Feil, Herman; Meints, Henk

A method of biological soil decontamination, including the introduction into the soil of a product that contains a material chosen from a group consisting of proteins, carbohydrates and lipids. The product introduced into the soil does not contain any unprocessed fresh plants or unprocessed fresh plant residues. The method also includes the application of a barrier layer over the soil, e.g., between the soil and the ...
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Application Number:  20120034032

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Waters, JR., Louis A.

A self-actuating flood guard for a construction holds a buoyant gate at an elevation spaced from ground between flanking spaced vertical boundary walls adapted for connection to the construction. The gate is pivotable on pivotation members about a horizontal axis normal to the boundary walls for buoyant rotation upwardly between the boundary walls on rise of water above the elevation. Optionally, flexible lip seal gaskets along the sides of the gate sealingly wipe the boundary walls, and a ...
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Application Number:  20120034031

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Henry, Brian D.; Armstrong, Lance J .

A storage device for retaining an extended length of floating oil boom therein and a method of using the same. The storage device is made from a sheet of material that is foldable to define and surround an interior cavity in which the oil boom is received. A closure mechanism is engaged to secure the folded storage device about the oil boom. A lifting mechanism on the storage device is engaged with a cable extending from a suspension assembly mounted on a vessel for use on a large body of ...
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Application Number:  20120027529

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Bolton, Wallace; Mirabile, Ben; Poland, Rodney; Brandon, Demrey G.; Oldsen, John G.; Stankus, John C.

A mine support yieldable prop includes a threaded shaft rotatably mounted in an end of the prop to move into and out of the prop end to move a bearing plate toward or away from a mine roof, and/or a bearing plate pivotally mounted to the end of the prop to level the prop with uneven mine ...
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Application Number:  20120027528

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  Alfreds, Kim L.

Retaining wall systems and methods of making retaining wall systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, the retaining wall system includes a first horizontally-extending course of sand/soil bags and a second horizontally-extending course of sand/soil bags positioned vertically adjacent to the first course of sand/soil bags, with an interconnecting member that attaches the first course of sand/soil bags to the second course of sand/soil bags. The interconnecting member has an upper side and a ...
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Application Number:  20120027527

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Emanuel, Norberto Alfonso; Cook, Norman Joseph

A pile comprises a first side portion configured as a section of the pile and comprising first and second edges. A second side portion comprising first and second edges and is configured to slidably engage with the respective second and first edges of the first side portion, wherein the first edge is configured to slidably engage the second edge. When engaged, the two side portions form a substantially hollow pile and the side portions form junctions between the two side portions that are ...
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Application Number:  20120027526

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  Ferman, Marty A.

An underwater structure for supporting an above-water structure having an underwater portion immersed for some period of time underneath a water line of a body of water is provided. The underwater structure includes, but is not limited to, a turbulence reducing member connected with the underwater ...
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Application Number:  20120027525

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  VANDENBULCKE, Luc; Vanderbeke, Koen

A jack-up offshore platform includes a work deck and a lifting device for manipulating a load from the work deck. The lifting device includes a main boom for manipulating the load, which main boom is pivotally connected to a support structure at a pivot. The support structure is provided to support the pivot in an elevated position with respect to the work deck, which allows manipulation of heavier loads and moreover saves space on the work deck. In a preferred embodiment, the platform further ...
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Application Number:  20120027524

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  GEHRING, Donald H.

An offshore structure for deploying and retrieving underwater electrical power generators that converts energy derived from water currents into electrical energy. The offshore structural platform includes a pair of vertical guide rails to guide a propulsion device lowering said generator underwater onto a seabed propulsion device. The seabed propulsion device is engaged on an underwater seabed rail system and transports the generator onto one of many unique frames specifically designed to ...
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Application Number:  20120027523

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  VANDERBEKE, Koen

A device for assembling a large structure at sea, particularly a wind turbine. The device includes a support structure which can be arranged relative to a transport vessel, wherein a part of the support structure is movable from a transport position, in which the component is transported, to an assembly position in which the component is rotated and/or tilted relative to the transport position. The movable part is provided can be fixed in place. A method for assembling a large structure at sea ...
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Application Number:  20120027522

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Ives, James; Dunne, Paul; Taaffe, David

A method of installing an off-shore tidal hydroelectric turbine generator is described. The method provides for a number of safety features, ensuring that all components are safe to handle during the installation operation, and also ensuring that the turbine will not start spinning during the installation ...
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Application Number:  20120027521

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Ma, Jinrong; Ma, Lumin; Stankus, John C.

A method for designing and fabricating a mine seal includes determining an initial thickness for a mine seal based on a predetermined underground opening, developing and solving a numerical model for response of the mine seal upon application of a blasting pressure, and determining whether the mine seal meets predetermined design criteria. A mine seal having a minimum seal thickness may be fabricated after determining the mine seal meets the predetermined design ...
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Application Number:  20120027520

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Powell, Beth P.; Starr, Robert J.

A device for damming and diverting liquid on a spill surface has an elongated, pliable dike having a first end, a second end and an exposed surface. The exposed surface is inherently tacky so that it is adherable to the spill surface to prevent flow of liquid past the dike. The dike is preferably made from a substance, such as polyurethane, that is inherently tacky. The device provides improved tear resistance by one or more additions to the construction of the device. Some of the additions to ...
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Application Number:  20120027519

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  KRECKE, Edmond D.

The invention relates to a method and a device for sealing a borehole from which oil discharges uncontrolled. Thereby, a hull is filled with cement and the cement mass is lowered around a cone-shaped pipe so that the cone-shaped pipe is simultaneously fixated and also ...
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Application Number:  20120027518

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  Van Houten, JR., Donald Charles

A containment boom for floating substances, including a long section of linear low density polyethylene folded over and heat sealed to form (i) a top sleeve along the length of the long section, (ii) a second sleeve along the length of the long section adjacent to and beneath the top sleeve, (iii) a bottom sleeve, and (iv) a skirt along the length of the long section extending downwardly from the second sleeve to the bottom sleeve. The second sleeve has a plurality of separate watertight ...
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Application Number:  20120027517

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  SHIFFERAW, Tessema Dosho

A fluid leak containment system for containing leaks of fluids, such as, but not limited to fossil fuels, during an underwater extraction process is disclosed. The fluid leak containment system may be formed from a generally extendible, conically shaped containment structure including a plurality of decreasingly sized housing sections extending from an inlet to a smaller sized outlet. The housing sections may be formed from flexible materials that enable easy storage and rapid deployment. The ...
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Application Number:  20120027516

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Day, Roger L.; Herickhoff, James A.

Disclosed are methods for solution mining of evaporite minerals, such as trona, comprising drilling an access well and at least two lateral boreholes; injecting a fluid; circulating the fluid through the lateral boreholes with a controlled fluid flow; and collecting a pregnant solution. Also disclosed are methods of solution mining that include injecting an aqueous solution into an underground trona cavity at a temperature sufficient to maintain at least a portion of the solution in the cavity ...
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Application Number:  20120027515

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Neugent, Timothy L.; Scandrett, Brad

A boat lift system that utilizes a solar module system. The solar module system includes a flexible solar film that is secured to a magnetic member that is electrically connected to a junction box. The junction box additionally is electrically connected to the electrical system of the boat lift such that electricity generated from the flexible solar film is transferred to the electrical system of the boat ...
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Application Number:  20120024391

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Wille, Hein; Meek, Harke Jan

A system for developing one or more offshore hydrocarbon fields includes at least one floating hydrocarbon processing unit moored to the seabed and connected to a hydrocarbon reservoir via a riser and a wellhead on the seabed, the unit receiving and processing the hydrocarbon mixture received from the reservoir via the riser, and having equipment to separate the hydrocarbon mixture into oil, water and gas and store them in storage tanks. A gas storage buffer reservoir is placed at a certain ...
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Application Number:  20120023847

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  LISKEY, HERBERT GREGORY

The installation of a foundation enables a superstructure to be installed and supported in a desired attitude such as a vertical attitude at the foundation. An installation template is placed at the selected location and support sites on the installation template can be adjusted so that the installation template will support the foundation subassembly in a manner such that the superstructure can be supported in said desired attitude. The foundation subassembly is placed onto the installation ...
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Application Number:  20120021123

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  Gaus, John P.; Leveson, Philip D.

Biomass is devolatilized to produce both a combustible fuel (syngas) and activated carbon. The activated carbon is used as an adsorbent to capture a contaminant, such as mercury, and stored in a landfill, is impregnated with components with inherent fertilizer properties and tilled into arable land, is used along with coal in an electric power generation facility, or is used to remove mercury or other heavy metals from the flue gas of a coal fired power generation station prior to being stored ...
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Application Number:  20120020746

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  Astolfi, Luigi; Andrighetti, Gabriele

Modular block (10, 10′, 10″) for civil works, comprising a base body (11), a plurality of structural protrusions (12) that develop from the base body (11) according to a matrix configuration and interconnecting means (14) to blocks (10, 10′, 10″) belonging to the same modular system. Around the structural protrusions (12) there is some space (S1, S2) suitable for defining channels (C) for the arrangement of material and/or ...
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Application Number:  20120020745

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  MILLER, Stanley Mark; Joaquin, Alan Charles

A self-supporting earth facing module has a tubular sock to be filled with compost or fill material and a geogrid sheet which wraps around the circumference of the tubular sock with upper and lower extensions extending lengthwise to one side of the sock. The geogrid sheet is joined by a high-strength seam to the circumference of the sock. The module forms an integrated unit that can be used to form sequenced horizontal earth layers and serve as facing for a geosynthetically stabilized earth ...
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Application Number:  20120020744

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  Eigemann, Ernst

The invention provides a compact apparatus for providing a substantially pressure-tight connection between a source of a plastics component and an opening of an inner channel of a rock bolt wherein the apparatus comprises a central block moveable to be aligned with the rock bolt, a supply pipe slidably arranged in the central block, a first force transmitter, a gripper for attaching the central block to the rock bolt, a gripper drive slidably mounted on the central block and arranged to operate ...
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Application Number:  20120020743

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  Tietjen, Kai

A foundation for structures, with a combination of pile-like support elements (11) and a load distribution layer (12) which is arranged above the support elements and has an incorporated three-dimensional honeycomb ...
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Application Number:  20120020742

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  Mahmoud, Mostafa H.

Concrete silo for offshore drilling and production operations includes a reinforced concrete foundation secured at the seabed by steel piles and steel anchors embedded into the seabed. An exterior vertical reinforced concrete wall is supported by the foundation. An interior vertical reinforced concrete wall is supported by the foundation and houses a central cell. A series of radial shear walls extend between the exterior concrete wall and the interior concrete wall to form a series of ...
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Application Number:  20120020741

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  McAlister, Padraig

The invention discloses an ice composite body with a layer of water close to its freezing point within the body's armor shell at its base, with a pressurizing system for the water which maintains an upward pressure on the ice core at the set level needed to structurally support any burden resting on the top part of the shell, the top part of the shell & the ice core. The ice core has a separate non structural layer at its lowest level & a separate system of melting & freezing this ...
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Application Number:  20120020740

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  Otsuga, Norio

In a connection structure (A) for a manhole pipe (1) and sewer main pipe (2) in which the sewer main pipe (2) places one end at a circular opening (12) of the manhole pipe (1) through a flexible coupler (F), the flexible coupler (F) has a rubber coupler body (3). Around an inner surface of the rubber coupler body (3), there is provided a water-sealing ridge (32) with a butylene rubber layer (33) placed around an outer surface of the ...
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Application Number:  20120020739

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  Lyngberg, Kim; McEwans, Jenny

Apparatus for laying conduit from a vessel comprises reel carrier arranged to receive a reel (202) wound with conduit (204) and capable of being reciprocated along the direction of the axis (214) of the reel as the conduit is unwound. The apparatus further comprises a straightener (208), and a control unit arranged to control the reel carrier such that the fleet angle created between the conduit and the straightener is reduced. Such an arrangement ensures that the ...
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Application Number:  20120020738

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  Wegener, Robert W.

Systems and apparatuses protect subsurface conduit. Specifically, the systems and apparatuses protect subsurface conduit by disposing one or more rigid caps over a length of the subsurface conduit under a roadway for decreasing and/or eliminating impacts and/or damage to the subsurface conduit caused by automobiles and other vehicles utilizing the roadway. Methods of making and using the same are further ...
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Application Number:  20120020737

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  QUAGLINO, III, ANGELO VINCENT

A coastal oil recovery system and method for clean up of land based contamination with a containment device having a reverse funnel shaped top hood, rigidly attached to vertical walled sides, a plurality of ground screws to pull the containment device into the soil, a plurality of water jets to fill the containment device and float oil from contaminated soil and vegetation upward into the top hood for extraction by discharge hoses. Due to the shape of the top hood, the depth of the floating oil ...
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Application Number:  20120020736

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  Navarro Avino, Juan Pedro

The present invention relates to the search for and choice of forest plants adapted to severe edaphological conditions in soils contaminated by pollutants, which plants are capable of surviving in most parts of the world and cannot enter the trophic chain. The genetic transformation thereof considerably enhances the metal absorption rate and storage capacity thereof and also makes it easier for said absorption to cover the majority of pollutants or harmful ...
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Application Number:  20120020735

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  Fricano, Phillip James

An open chamber of predetermined size, and shape is positioned in a predetermined location within the confines of a pool bed so as to contain interconnected clusters of interconnected telescopic modules which occupy the entire chamber area. Each of the telescopic module is independently extended and retracted in length vertically by the increase or decrease of the volume of water contained within a bellows interconnected within each telescopic module, thereby establishing in the totality of the ...
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Application Number:  20120020734

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  Ross, James M.

“The Environmentally Safe Hydro-Electric Pipeline And Water Delivery System” will provide over one million gallons of fresh water per day to areas and communities in desperate need of clean fresh water. This will be accomplished with a very small environmental footprint. This pipeline will be self powered by use of gravity and siphon principals. There will be enough flow and water pressure left over to power many water turbine electric generators, which may be located anywhere along the ...
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Application Number:  20120020733

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  Mahadevaiah, Basavaraj

A containment boom system for use in a liquid body includes a base support structure and a containment boom. An elongated rod has a proximal end and a spaced apart distal end. The proximal end is hingedly attached to the base support structure and extends laterally therefrom. A buoy is coupled to the containment boom and is coupled to the distal end of the elongated rod. The buoy has sufficient buoyancy so as to remain floating on the liquid body while supporting the elongated ...
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Application Number:  20120020732

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  Stiles, Brady A.; Flannery, Jamey J.

Method and apparatus for a low floating boom curtain constructed of absorptive material made for use in waters polluted by oil, fuel, diesel fuel, chemicals such as dispersants or other petroleum based contaminants or the like wherein the boom curtain is comprised of an upper and a lower portion wherein the upper portion is the buoyant portion and the lower portion is a skirt portion, wherein the skirt portion has a weighted portion on the bottom of the skirt portion so that together they form ...
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