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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2020
Jospa Limited, Cork, IE;
Jocelyn Raymond Fitzsimons, Cork, IE;
Patrick Joseph Duffy, Blackrock, IE;
Cyril Kerr, Blackrock, IE;
JOSPA LIMITED, Cork, IE;
Abstract
A towing apparatus has a spine with multiple generally parallel spine members extending in a longitudinal direction and having a length of at least 100 m, and with a leading end and a trailing end. A series of blades are mounted to the spine by couplers which allow the blade to rotate about an axis substantially transverse to the longitudinal direction, each blade having a first surface facing generally in the trailing end direction and a second surface facing generally in the leading end direction. Restraints prevent rotation of each blade by more than a pre-set amount towards the leading end, so that impingement of a wave on the first surface applies a force to the apparatus in the leading end direction. A pair of the towing apparatus' may be arranged to connect to a floating collector with a beach shape to collect floating debris on the sea surface, ridges helping to retain the debris on the slope until it is washed up into a channel.