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Beach stabilizing blocks

a technology of beach stabilizing blocks and blocks, applied in the direction of piers, groynes, breakwaters, etc., can solve the problems of poor breaking up, unsightly and possibly contaminating methods, and few practical and easy-to-install ways to crea

Inactive Publication Date: 2004-08-12
GIBBS RICHARD A
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At present there are few practical and easy to install ways to create a barrier around which a beach might form.
The closest present way to stabilize uses chained together automobile tires, an unsightly and possibly contaminating method.
Walls have frequently been used to prevent sand loss from beaches but walls are poor at breaking up the force of waves with relatively large flat areas of (nearly) simultaneous wave impact greatly stressing and eventually cracking the walls.
As noted above, walls also retain water and this hinders the free draining of water that is important in beach formation, and walls may allow sand to drain from behind the wall thus actually speeding the errosion that the walls were to prevent.
The bags are fragile and such is useful only for relatively short times and the stacks are easily overturned due to the small size of the sandbags.

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second embodiment

[0037] In a second embodiment the top of the thermoformed barrier block is 6 feet long and two rows of stake wells are arrayed 1 / 3 of the width from the outer edge of the block and every 18 inches to allow a wide variety of stacking patterns.

[0038] The shape can also be rectangular and such a large rectangular shape has considerable use as a building element in sheds or as the floors, supporting base of walls surrounding decks and patios.

third embodiment

[0039] In a third embodiment the size of the top is 6 feet by six feet and the bottom is a truncated pyramid with a height of 2 feet and a flat area of two feet square. Rows of stake wells are arrayed 1 / 3 from all edges and spacing of holes along the rows is 18 inches.

fourth embodiment

[0040] In a fourth embodiment shown as FIG. 3, the top of the truncated shape is upward and the larger bottom downward, the staking wells, 5B, whet their stakes 12 are supplemented with interlocking projections 13 and recesses that allow easy stacking in a variety of patterns. The projections may be used for example to join two units end to end or they may be used for other attachments. A series of shaped grooves is also shown which are alternate or supplementary methods of attachment of blocks end to end. The blocks retain the top entry hole for filling 9B.

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Abstract

A device and method for stabilization of beaches and building walls, patios and similar simple structures consisting of blocks with trapezoidal or rectangular shapes which have staking or interlocking means of interconnecting blocks and where the top has an open area allowing fill by slurries of water and sand, gravel or clay and the escape of clarified water during and after filling.

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[0001] The invention refers to a large fillable shaped device to stabilize beach areas or form walls and protective barriers and a method to employ this device which is water and sand tillable, top vented to allow escape of water, and can have various interlocks to form larger structures.BACKGROUND AND PRIOR ART[0002] The creation of sea walls, breakwaters and similar beach conservation and breakwater devices is well documented and the subject of many patents on stabilization structures and artificial breakwater structures.[0003] A typical ocean beach is a constantly moving accumulation of sand, mud, and gravel. The action of waves brings sand into the beach area and deposits it from further out (deeper water) at times and at other times the wave action strips the sand accumulation away and re-deposits it elsewhere. Beaches and breakwaters are thus moving objects except where they are fixed by rock deposits or similar retaining walls or manmade barriers which act as anchors around w...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): E02B3/06
CPCE02B3/06
Inventor GIBBS, RICHARD A.
Owner GIBBS RICHARD A
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