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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 1980
Filed:
Sep. 21, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
Georges L Mougin, Paris, FR;
Assignee:
ITI Limited, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
405 52 ; 405 28 ; 405 61 ; 405211 ;
Abstract
A device (4) for thermally protecting the side of a tabular iceberg (1) produces a vertical layer of calm water (7) between itself and the vertical side wall of the tabular iceberg. This thermal protective device is suspended from a mechanical protective device, which may comprise a wall of floating towers (5). The protective device comprises panels (8) of woven or non-woven material parallel to the vertical side wall of the tabular iceberg, each of said panels having a width greater than its height, being suspended from a horizontal cable (10) passing through a top hem of the panel and being stretched taut by ballast (9).