Underwater foundation structure and method therefor

• US 3,091,937 A
• Filed: 07/01/1959
• Issued: 06/04/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/1954
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Austin W. Earl, David P. Thompson
• Original Assignee: Austin W. Earl, David P. Thompson
• Inventors: Thompson, David P., Earl, Austin W.
• Application Number:
  US03/830,974
• Time in Patent Office: 1,434 Days
• US Class Current: 405/204
• CPC Class Codes: E02B 17/00 Artificial islands mounted on piles or like supports, e.g. platforms on raisable legs or offshore constructions; Construction methods therefor construction methods for floating platforms B63B75/00; anchoring floating platforms B63B21/00; floating platforms, e.g. anchored, B63B35/44; underwater reservoirs B65D88/78
• CPC Class Codes: E02B 2017/0065 Monopile structures
• CPC Class Codes: E02D 27/42 Foundations for poles, masts or chimneys sockets or holders for poles or masts per se E04H12/22

Claims

3. A SUPPORT CAISSON DETACHABLY SUPPORTING AN UNDERWATER FOUNDATION STRUCTURE COMPRISING A CAISSON MEMBER EXTENDING DOWNWARDLY INTO LAND SUBMERGED UNDER A BODY OF WATER, A SLEEVE MEMBER SURROUNDING SAID CAISSON ADJACENT THE UPPER END THEREOF AND IN ANNULAR SPACED RELATIONSHIP RADIALLY FROM THE LOWER END PORTION OF SAID SLEEVE MEMBER, SAID SLEEVE MEMBER EXTENDING UPWARDLY FROM THE UPPER END OF SAID CAISSON, A CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL FILLING SAID CAISSON AND THE PORTION OF SAID SLEEVE MEMBER EXTENDING ABOVE SAID CAISSON AND THE ANNULAR SPACE BETWEEN SAID SLEEVE MEMBER TO SAID CAISSON, AND FIXEDLY BONDING SAID SLEEVE MEMBER TO SAID CAISSON, AND UNDERWATER FOUNDATION STRUCTURE HAVING AN OPENING THEREIN IN ALIGNMENT WITH AND OF RADIALLY GREATER DIMENSION THAN SAID SLEEVE MEMBER AND OF RADIALLY LESS DIMENSION THAN SAID COLLAR MEMBER AND RECEIVING SAID SLEEVE MEMBER IN VERTICALLY SLIDABLE TELESCOPING RELATIONSHIP TO PLACE SAID FOUNDATION STRUCTURE IN DETACHABLE LOAD SUPPORTING ENGAGEMENT ON SAID COLLAR MEMBER, SAID SLEEVE MEMBER TERMINATING AT ITS UPPER END WITHIN SAID BODY OF WATER.