Title: Marine engineering structure with wide base using a truss

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1. A marine engineering structure, such as a revetment, a breakwater or a quay wall, comprising at vertically extending truss structure having a horizontally arranged base at the lower end thereof, said truss structure comprising a plurality of vertically extending open-sided trusses spaced laterally apart, a plurality of interconnecting members joined to and extending between said trusses, said trusses and said interconnecting members dividing the interior of said truss structures into a plurality of vertically extending multi-sided open spaces extending upwardly above the base of said truss structure, a floor slab fixed to the base of said truss structure and extending transversely of the lower ends of said vertically extending open spaces, and at least one vertically extending prefabricated main body located within one of said open spaces and extending vertically upwardly from said floor slab, and said main body comprising a unitary block-like structure.

2. A marine engineering structure, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said floor slab extends across the entire base of said truss structure.

3. A marine engineering structure, as set forth in claim 2, wherein a plurality of said main bodies being located within said open spaces in said truss structure disposed laterally of one another and each extending vertically upwardly from said floor slab.

4. A marine engineering structure, as set forth in claim 4, wherein said main bodies comprise hollow square concrete columns.

5. A marine engineering structure, as set forth in claim 2, wherein rip-rap being filled into certain of the open spaces located laterally of the open space containing said main body.

6. A marine engineering structure, as set forth in claim 2, wherein wave-breaking blocks being filled into certain of said open spaces located laterally of said open space containing said main body.

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Inventors: Sameshima, Shigeru (Kikuna, JA)

Application Number: 701218
Filing Date: 1976-06-30
Publication_date: 1977-12-27
Assignee: Japan Port Consultants, Ltd. (Tokyo, JA)
Primary Class(es): 405/30
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

1146229	Jul, 1915	Adamson	61/3.
2014116	Sep, 1935	Powers	61/4.
3783626	Jan, 1974	Hansen	61/50.

Other Refs: 84,2729,680 OF

Feb, 1957	NL
, 1843	UK

Primary Examiner: Shapiro, Jacob
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Toren, McGeady and Stanger