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Hydraulic and earth engineering November recently filed with US Patent Office 11/10

20100296870 - Subirrigation system: A subirrigation system 10 includes a water-impervious member 16, and keeps water content in soil of a cultivated land 200 in a proper state for growing a plant. The water-impervious member 16 is formed into an upper opening vessel shape, and has a water reserving function. Water is fed to... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20100296871 - Trench for storing and/or seeping/retaining surface water: Disclosed is a trench for storing and seeping or retaining or filtering surface water, comprising at least one trench member that is composed of several supporting elements which are interconnected by means of additional elements. Preferably, each supporting element is a frame element that is composed of interconnected profiled sections.... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20100296872 - Method and installation for the subterranean support of underground conduits: In one exemplary embodiment, curved sheet pile is driven underneath an existing conduit using a pile driver guided hydraulically by an excavator or other heavy machinery. By vibrating the curved sheet piles, the soil is placed in suspension, which allows the piles to be directed through the soil along an... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20100296873 - Method for installing a topside module on an offshore support structure: Method for installing a topside module on an offshore support structure that in use comprises at least one support leg that extends a height above the water level. The method comprises the steps of supporting said topside module on a barge in a position adjacent to said at least one... Agent: Kellogg Brown & Root LLC Attn: Christian Heausler

20100296874 - Portable dock system: A portable trailer dock system features a floating dock assembly pivotally mounted atop a trailer frame to allow elevating of a free end of the floating dock assembly above the corresponding distal end of the trailer opposite the towing end thereof so that the dock can be held above the... Agent: Ade & Company Inc.

20100296875 - Underwater foundation: A method of installing an underwater foundation, suitable for use in supporting or anchoring wave or tidal energy capture devices is provided. The method comprises providing a foundation unit (1) equipped with a submersible drilling rig (16); placing the foundation unit (1) on the bed (50) of a body of... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20100296876 - Caisson structures and methods for precisely and stably sinking the caisson structures into ground: A caisson structure including enclosed well walls with internal surfaces and external surface placed opposite to the internal surfaces is provided. A plurality of frame beams are provided between the internal surfaces and mutually intersected in a horizontal plane and a vertical plane. A bottom frame beam is provided close... Agent: Scihead Intellectual Property Law Group, Ltd

20100296877 - Product including cells formed by band stapling and method and device for producing a cellular product: c

20100296878 - Boot for geosynthetic layer: A boot for attaching a geosynthetic layer to a vertical member in a soil, where the geosynthetic layer extends substantially horizontally outwardly from the vertical member. The boot includes a stack of flexible rings. Each ring has an inner edge defining a center opening larger than the horizontal cross section... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20100290837 - Submarine water reservoir: A method of storing water comprising: restraining at least one flexible storage reservoir (12) in a submerged position within a body of salt water (14); establishing a terrestrial intake (16) in fluid communication with the flexible storage reservoir (12); and establishing a terrestrial outlet (30) in fluid communication with the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100290838 - Fractal column offset tension leg platform (cotlp): A Fractal Column Offset Tension Leg Platform (COTLP) consists of a semi-submersible hull type, tension moored to the seabed. The Fractal COTLP advances the state of technology by utilizing fractal arrangements of repeated, similar structural units, consisting of continuous pontoons and intermittent columns, to provide better construction, operation, stability, payload... Agent: Steffen Allan Shelley

20100290839 - Anchoring system for anchoring a base that supports a wind turbine: Anchoring system for anchoring an object to a floor of a body of water includes a weighted portion, an explosive charge arrangement on the weighted portion, a movable pole arranged on the weighted portion, and a penetration system that moves the pole downward after initiation of the explosive charge arrangement.... Agent: Holtz, Holtz, Goodman & Chick PC

20100290840 - Plastic rock-bolt or dowel and method of manufacturing of the same: A fibre reinforced rock dowel (10) for use in reinforcing strata or the like has a generally cylindrical shank (12) having a longitudinal axis and defines one or more groups of mixing vanes (16, 18, 20) projecting from the shank, and a threaded end (14) for the attachment of a... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20100290841 - Method for fixing a cable or tendon: The present invention relates broadly to a tensioning device through which a strata support cable 12 or tendon passes. The cable 12 is installed into an elongate cavity drilled into a geological strata (not shown). The tensioning device 10 includes a tensioning member 14 which has a central elongate bore... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20100290842 - Ecological restoration block: An ecological restoration block installed to a predetermined height along rivers or river banks. The ecological restoration block includes a body, having a first cell in which earth and sand are stored, and second and third cells for storing water, provided on respective sides of the first cell, with partitioning... Agent: Emerson, Thomson & Bennett, LLC

20100290843 - System and method for installing sheet piles: A system for installation of sheet pile including a sheet pile installation apparatus having a substantially rigid elongate beam with an upper end and a lower end, and at least one drive finger proximal the lower end of the substantially rigid elongate beam; and a sheet pile having an elongate... Agent: Gardner Groff Greenwald & Villanueva. PC

20100284744 - Watering device, method for manufacturing said device, and means therefor: The invention relates to a device for watering purposes, a proceeding for the manufacture thereof as well as means for the manufacture thereof. The device (1) comprises a water-collecting container (3) extending along the intended desired area to be watered. Internally (6) in the container (3), there is a transverse... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20100284745 - Drainage management systems and methods: A flow limiting inlet structure is designed to collect water or other fluids in a pool above grade, and to provide improved capture of sediments and surface pollutants such as oils and greases in the pool, while regulating the flow of water or other fluids during discharge into an outlet... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP.

20100284746 - Flow control system for a detention pond: An application for a flow control system includes a movable riser in fluid communication and slideably engaged with a stationary riser, the stationary riser being in fluid communication with a drainage system. The movable riser is made buoyant by one or more attached floats such that, when the liquid level... Agent: Larson And Larson

20100284747 - Water-filled building block for temporary levee: A hollow block in the form of a rectangular parallelepiped when filled with water, is joined with a plurality of similar water-filled blocks to form a flood barrier. Two opposite sides of each block have connection features that connect with features on the first and third sides of adjacent blocks... Agent: Nawrocki, Rooney & Sivertson Suite 401, Broadway Place East

20100284748 - Underground mining apparatus: An underground mining apparatus includes a mining head for moving through underground material to extract material in its path and form a passageway behind the mining head as it advances. An elongate structure extends along the passageway to the mining head and provides a path for delivering the extracted material... Agent: Hogan Lovells US LLP

20100284749 - Systems and methods for off-shore energy production and carbon dioxide sequestration: The present invention is directed to aquatic systems and methods for off-shore energy production, particularly to systems and methods for generating large amounts of methane via anaerobic digestion, purifying the methane produced, and sequestering environmentally deleterious by-products such as carbon dioxide. The energy production systems contain one or more flexible,... Agent: Koppel, Patrick, Heybl & Dawson

20100284750 - Removable impact cover for a marine riser buoyancy module: A removal impact cover (14) for a marine riser buoyancy module (10) has an arcuate shape with an open face (21). The cover (14) has a number of recesses (18) arranged to engage with recesses (22) on the module (10). The recesses (18) each contain an aperture (20) and the... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20100284751 - Wall block with barrier member: A retaining wall block can include a top surface and opposing bottom surface, a front surface and opposing rear surface, and first and second opposing side surfaces. A projection can extend downwardly from the bottom surface and can include a forwardly facing indexing surface oriented generally parallel with the front... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100284752 - Grout pack assembly: The invention provides a grout pack assembly having a plurality of elongate elements shaped to extend about a grout pack and which are characterized in that they are configured to control circumferential expansion of the grout pack beyond the expansion permitted through material yield of the elements.... Agent: Trego, Hines & Ladenheim, PLLC

20100278591 - Containment barrier: A containment barrier is provided in a plurality of compartments, such as linearly arranged, with a supply of super absorbent polymer in each of the compartments. In a wetted configuration, the barrier can prevent the flow of fluid into a drainage, or even past a garage door. Compartments may be... Agent: Douglas T. Johnson Miller & Martin

20100278592 - Solar energy cover system: A solar energy cover system, landfill cover system and method of use. The solar landfill cover system typically comprises a foundation layer of compacted soil above a solid waste pile and a solar cell geomembrane on top of the foundation layer. The solar landfill geomembrane preferably comprises a flexible solar... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20100278593 - Expansion shell assembly: An expansion shell assembly for mine roof bolts includes an expansion member threaded onto an associated mine roof bolt. A support device is annularly disposed around the associated roof bolt. An expansion shell is annularly disposed around the associated roof bolt between the expansion member and the support device. The... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20100278594 - Erosion control system: Improved erosion control systems are provided which, in some embodiments, may comprise large, porous aggregate stabilized with a continuous mesh and a polymeric binding agent. In some embodiments, an erosion control system may include an aggregate layer comprising porous aggregate having a particle size of at least 7.5 mm and... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20100278595 - Soil formulation for resisting erosion: This disclosure relates to soil erosion and the establishment of an appropriate seed bed. More specifically, the disclosure relates to a composition applied to exposed soil wherein the composition comprises organic material produced when the methane is burned from green manure and dried. This organic material combines seed and a... Agent: Hughes Law Firm, PLLC