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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 1976
Filed:
Mar. 21, 1974
Ralph Alan Nixon, Hamilton, SC;
Abstract
The invention concerns an apparatus for collecting solids from the bed of a iquid or for establishing an anchorage in the bed of a liquid. The apparatus comprises essentially a substantially hollow structure into which solids from the liquid bed are induced as solids in liquid suspension. In the case of the apparatus being used for the collection of solids the structure is raised to the surface of the liquid for the solids to be harvested. When the apparatus is being used as an anchoring device the design is modified such that as solids from the liquid bed are induced into the substantially hollow structure they fill or partially fill the structure when then proceeds to bury itself into the liquid bed thereby establishing an anchorage.