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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 1976
Filed:
Jun. 06, 1975
George W Morgan, Dallas, TX (US);
Sun Oil Company (Delaware), Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of and apparatus for the construction of a modular barge is provided wherein individual floatation modules are assembled and secured one to another by the positioning and linking of separable alignment pins therebetween and the threading of tensioning cables therethrough. Each alignment pin has a generally elliptoid shape and an axial cable receiving bore therethrough. Each flotation module is formed with a plurality of sockets complementally shaped for the alignment pins and linked in pairs by transversely extending passages therethrough and spaced along adjacent side walls of the modules to be in registry with one another. With the modules in a spaced array, assembly cables are threaded through certain ones of the module passages. First ends of the cables are anchored to perimeter modules and the opposite ends are tensioned to draw the modules and alignment pins together, wherein the configuration of the alignment pins then facilitates alignment and coupling. A lock provided in each socket and alignment pin secure that coupled relationship. Tensioning cables threaded serially through certain other ones of the module passages and alignment pins provide structural rigidity for the barge through the post tensioning thereof.