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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 1978
Filed:
Jan. 28, 1977
Applicant:
Inventor:
Peter John Tolan, Scituate, MA (US);
Assignee:
The B. F. Goodrich Company, Akron, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
210 / ; 61 / ; 2102 / ; 210D / ;
Abstract
A current deployable floatable boom unit for accumulating oil from the surface of water. An oil monitoring device is operative to actuate the deployment of the boom unit when oil is sensed adjacent to the boom unit, which boom unit is stored out of the way.