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8147165 |
Artificial ground reef
An artificial ground reef has an attached implanting body to allow seaweed to readily attach and inhabit the artificial ground reef. The artificial ground reef has a main body having an upper...
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8142105 |
Wave-motion reducing structure
A wave-motion reducing structure comprises wave-motion reducing means (30) suitable for being laid on a coastal bed and restraining means (20, 22) suitable for restraining the wave-motion reducing...
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8132986 |
Water ballasted wave attenuator
A water ballasted wave attenuator is provided. The water ballasted wave attenuator includes (a) a hollow shell formed of reinforced concrete; (b) a flotation medium in the upper region of the shell...
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RE42259 |
Biologically-dominated artificial reef
An apparatus and method of reducing the effects of hydrodynamic forces of waves and water currents in coastal environments (e.g., oceans, and coastal, river, lake, and reservoir banks). The...
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7878733 |
Erosion protection device
An erosion protection device is described which is made of two or more components. Each component has an edge, surfaces on respective sides of the edge and at least one joining portion (a joining...
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7827937 |
Marine line form habitat
Providing underwater marine structures having a primary component of sedimentary rock of biochemical origin that is fixated into an assemblage forming structure that is anchored into the marine...
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7748929 |
Apparatus for controlling movement of flowable particulate material
The present invention is directed toward various valving arrangements to control the flow of granular material. In one embodiment, a valve is provided which facilitates flow of the material in one...
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7736089 |
System and method for prevention of beach erosion
A system and method for prevention of erosion utilizing a sub-tidal platform designed to be lodged at a beachhead. The sub-tidal platform will be placed under water and will contain at least one or...
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7704013 |
Prefabricated breakwater
The present invention relates to a breakwater, particularly, to a prefabricated breakwater which is assembled in a stepped manner, having the improvements in the construction workability and...
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7699560 |
Dump element, method for forming a spatial structure from dump elements, as well as spatial structure formed from dump elements
Dump element for forming a spatial structure (500, 501) such as a filtering or skeleton construction with such dumped dump elements. The dump element (99) comprises a first elongated, curved hook...
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7572083 |
Floating breakwater system and method for dissipating wave energy
A floating breakwater system comprises a plurality of modules that are flexibly affixed together. The modules are affixed together to make up a plurality of vertical panels made up of the modules...
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7513711 |
Artificial marine reef inducement structure
A structure that can be made in many different shapes composed of primarily soft limestone slabs and formed in a manner to a frame whereby ample surface area is provided for securement thereon of...
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7497643 |
Artificial reef
An artificial reef comprises at least one bag which is generally configured to define at least a portion of a reef and which is at least partially fillable with air. An anchor is attached to the...
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7470087 |
Wave-dissipating block
A wave-dissipating block has a body and a turbine generator assembly. The body has an airway and an overhang. The airway is formed in the body, is substantially J-shape and has an opening...
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7404692 |
Breakwater generating structure
Waves are amplified by a gradual decrease in depth, and when the waves reach a vertical wall 10 of a reef 2, breaking waves are generated by sudden decrease of the water depth. As the breaking...
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7165912 |
Apparatus for rebuilding a sand beach
A device is provided for preventing shoreline erosion and for rebuilding the sand beach along the shoreline of a large body of water. A series of the devices are placed in side-by-side relation...
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7160057 |
Protective element for a breakwater or wave-retarding construction
A protective element for a breakwater or wave-retarding construction comprises a body that has at least two opposing projections. The projections are on either side of a flat base and extend...
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7144196 |
Biologically-dominated artificial reef
An apparatus and method of reducing the effects of hydrodynamic forces of waves and water currents in coastal environments (e.g., oceans, and coastal, river, lake, and reservoir banks). The...
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7066684 |
Silt restoration device
The present invention relates to a silt restoration device comprising a vertical support member having an upper end and a lower end, wherein the upper end is connected to an upper horizontal...
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7063483 |
Submergible tire structure
Lower sidewall portions (18, 20) of a vehicle tire (10) are spread apart by a spreader tool (28). Spreader bars (32, 34) are placed between the spread apart lower sidewall portions (18, 20) of the...
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7052205 |
Method of forming an artificial reef for shaping waves and a method for removing an artificial reef
A method of forming artificial reefs in which a set of blocks having internal cavities full of air are interconnected in the desired shape of the artificial reef. The blocks of the set float when...
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6935808 |
Breakwater
Provided are static and free-floating breakwater apparatuses that utilize a rocking panel (or beach) to dissipate wave energy. At the same time, such rocking motion can in certain embodiments be...
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6896445 |
Modular artificial reef, sea wall and marine habitat
A modular unit intended for use as an artificial reef, marine habitat and/or sea wall which can be placed in stacked structures along the floor of an ocean, bay, or other body of water comprises a...
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6863473 |
Barrier island forming method for beach renourishment
A new method for more rapidly renourishing a beach. A mobile accretion unit is set on the bottom a considerable distance out from the beach, yet still within the region where sand is deposited by...
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6824327 |
Artifical barrier reef
An artificial barrier reef has a skeletal frame formed from a plurality of support beams. The frame has a base and a plurality of side panels extending from the base to form a pyramid. A plurality...
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6715958 |
Floating wave attenuator
This invention relates to a novel floating wave attenuator. More particularly, this invention pertains to a novel design of floating wave attenuator which has a curved vertical wave alternating...
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6705803 |
Tire foundation structure
A foundation comprising one or more layers or mattresses of tires, and a fill material provided within and/or between tires of each of the mattresses. The fill material is preferably a relatively...
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6568878 |
Wave energy dissipater and beach renourishing system
A system converts energy of waves into rotational energy, friction, heat, hydrodynamic lift, and drag to extract energy from waves to reduce their amplitudes and increase their periods to reduce...
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6565283 |
Artificial reef unit and method of forming the same
An artificial roof unit and method of forming it under water on a base includes locating a tube of a flexible material divided by dividing walls of a flexible material into an array of compartments...
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6551025 |
Flood control barrier
A flood control barrier for separating water in a wet area from an area to be maintained substantially dry comprises a flexible exterior membrane made of liquid impervious material and including...
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6517282 |
Erosion control mats
An erosion control mat having buoyant fronds is deployed in a body of water to enhance the accumulation of sediments. The mat includes a plurality of frond lines arranged in a fanfold pattern. Each...
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6464429 |
Artificial reef module for coral reef remediation
The artificial reef module for coral reef remediation of the present invention includes a central body having an upper settling plate, a middle settling plate, and a lower settling plate. Extending...
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6431792 |
Artificial reef structure
An artificial reef structure is provided including various building components that are preformed from concrete and the like. The components include square blocks having recesses on the upper...
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6402426 |
Engineered environmental structure and method of its use
An engineered log jam for controlling stream flow characteristics is formed from multiple layers of logs. A first layer intended to be placed parallel to stream flow consists of two or more...
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6382874 |
Riparian improvement structure unit
The riparian improvement structure unit for use in construction work for water control and protection is composed of the first tubular member and a plurality of stick-and-twig members tied in a...
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6241887 |
Method for utilizing tyres to clean and/or fertilize water
The invention of this application relates to a method for utilizing tires for vehicles whereby the tires are introduced into a water such as rivers, seas, oceans or lakes, and thereby is used to...
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6213687 |
System for preventing erosion of soil surfaces
A system for preventing erosion and release of chemicals from exposed soil, the system including a pattern of horizontally-disposed, closely-spaced tires substantially filled and surrounded by...
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6190088 |
Device for forming a sand body and method for the application thereof
A device for forming a siltation construction comprising a substantially rectangular cloth (1) of water-permeable material, which is anchored on all sides to a water bed by anchoring means....
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6186702 |
Artificial reef
An artificial reef that will adequately promote marine growth, marine life, and prevent erosion by providing a unique designed and configuration. The artificial reef is a vertical structure having...
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6106195 |
Method of formation of tidal residual current in water area
A plurality of bottom structure members for controlling a tidal oscillation flow are disposed on a bottom in a sea area, thereby creating a new tidal residual current.
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6079902 |
Revetment system
The improved revetment system is created using a plurality of substantially identical blocks which comprise a body having at least one channel therein leading to a slot and at least one arm...
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6056476 |
Near off-bottom cultivation of kelp forests
A combination of old and new features to cultivate seaweed on the sea bottom comprising the steps of cultivating in a laboratory sporophytes and fixing them on lines, setting anchors on various...
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6042300 |
Concrete and tire artificial reef
An equilateral tetrahedral frame, comprising six concrete beams inserted through the center of a number of automotive tires. The ends of the concrete beams are fastened together at four points....
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5961251 |
Artificial seaweed device
An artificial seaweed device for submersion in a volume of water along a coastline for inhibiting coastal erosion and enhancing accretion of waterborne particulate matter. The artificial seaweed...
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5941661 |
Beach nourish work on shore using bed for wave dissipation having lattice frame and construction method thereof
Beds for wave dissipation having a lattice frame are arranged near a shore line of a shore and wave dissipating materials are stacked on the beds to make a wave dissipating structure, and sand is...
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5924820 |
Anti-scour device and method for scour prevention
A device and method for preventing the scouring of sand from the area adjacent to the beachward (shoreward) side of a breakwater. The device is made from flexible, non-corrosive, marine resistant...
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5899632 |
Beach restoration structure and method
A beach building structure for underwater installation along the shoreline of a body of water having periodic onshore wave action. The structure includes a base frame adapted to rest on the bottom...
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5879105 |
Wave energy dispersion system
An energy dissipating assembly for flowing water is provided which consists of a plurality of modules, each one of the modules being a buoyant body consisting of a continuous envelope defining a...
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5876151 |
Frame and method for installing viscous drag and non-laminar flow components of an underwater erosion control system
An underwater erosion control system that has viscous drag elements for increasing the effect of viscous drag and disrupting laminar flow on the water current has a frame that includes two...
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5871303 |
Viscous drag and non-laminar flow component of underwater erosion control system
An underwater erosion control system (10, 110) has an array of panels of material (12, 112). Each generally rectangular panel of material has a retaining portion (20, 120) and at least one sheet...
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