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Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 1994

Filed:

Sep. 29, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:

Robert D Goldbach, Millford, PA (US);

Assignees:

Metro Machine Corp., Norfolk, VA (US);

Marinex International, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B63B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
114 / ; 114 / ;
Abstract

In a double-layered vessel wall construction, which has two transversally spaced longitudinal wall layers, and wall layer-connecting plates, each of which has one longitudinal edge weldingly joined in a plate edge-to-plate edge joint in one of the longitudinal wall layers, and an opposite longitudinal edge weldingly joined in a plate edge-to-plate edge joint in the other of the longitudinal wall layers, so as to divide space enclosed by the wall construction into a plurality of cells that are typically closed at opposite ends by transverse bulkheads, cell-to-cell access openings are longitudinally staggered and located near cell ends. Accordingly, forced air ventilation can sweep through virtually all of the space enclosed within the wall construction, and a worker who falls while climbing from one cell to another via an access hole can fall no further than the vertical extent of the two cells which are interconnected by that access opening.


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