Dual-chamber inflatable oil boom

Patent · Tue Aug 24 04:00:00 EDT 1993

OSTI ID:6162630

Blair, R M; Tedeschi, E T

An elongated floating material containment boom section is described having a normally vertical ballasted skirt depending from flotation means, and convertible from a flattened collapsed condition to a deployable condition wherein buoyancy chamber means extending along the upper edge of said skirt are inflated to expanded buoyant configuration, including: a gas-impervious sleeve extending along the upper edge of said normally vertical skirt forming a first outer collapsible and inflatable flotation chamber, a first inflation valve connecting the interior of said sleeve with the ambient atmosphere, through which gas under pressure may be introduced into said sleeve to inflate said first buoyant outer flotation chamber, elongated gas-impervious tube means positioned inside said outer flotation chamber and forming second collapsible and inflatable internal flotation bladder chamber means, second inflation valve means connecting the interior of said bladder means through said outer flotation chamber to the ambient atmosphere through which gas under pressure may be introduced into said bladder means to inflate it forming said second flotation chamber means inside said outer flotation chamber.

• Assignee: IMS; EDB-93-119061
• Patent Number(s): US 5238327; A
• Application Number: PPN: US 7-865954
• OSTI ID: 6162630
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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CONTAINMENT
CONTROL
CONTROL EQUIPMENT
DESIGN
EQUIPMENT
FLEXIBILITY
FLOW REGULATORS
FLUID INJECTION
GAS INJECTION
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
OIL SPILLS
OPERATION
POLLUTION CONTROL
POLLUTION CONTROL EQUIPMENT
TENSILE PROPERTIES
VALVES
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL