FR2533899A1 - Lifting method using water and dyke for its implementation - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention concerns the transportation of heavy loads using natural physical means. It involves fixing two wooden logs 2 on the load 1 to be transported by means of cables or ropes; it is necessary to build around it a dyke 6 made of earth, stone or other materials sufficiently leaktight to receive water. It involves fixing a boat 4 on the upper part of the logs 2, of filling the canal with water, and the load raises very easily; it will be displaced by towing with minimum effort. Rocks in rivers and seas can be mentioned among the most important applications of the invention.

Description

 The present invention relates to the transport of heavy loads with natural physical means.

 in order to lift a load and be able to transport it without effort or machine, by natural physical means, it suffices to carry out a very simple and very rudimentary assembly.

 For this, it is firstly to fix two wooden logs (2) on the load (1) to be transported, using cables or ropes 23), as shown in figure number 1 below -joint.

 Once this operation has been completed, a dyke must be kn 6 Fig. 4) in earth, stone or any other material, sufficiently waterproof to receive and conserve water.

These two operations carried out,
- fixing logs,
- execution of the dyke, it is necessary to fix on the upper part of the ronains a boat (4) (raft, boat, etc ...) as indicated in Figure number 2 attached.

 It is then necessary to fill the canal with water and the stone removed from the weight of the water of its volume, is very easily raised and all the mathematical calculations of this operation can be carried out.

 The displacement of the cargo will then be done by hauling with a minimum of effort.

 Lifting a pillar (Fig. 3, n 1 '): it will be done as described in figure 3, following steps a, B, C, using straps (3') attached to the end to said pillar (1 ') and connected to a boat (4'); the other end of the pillar being disposed in a hollow (5).

 Short channel: be t'canal court "will be constituted as we indicate on the figures number 4 and @, either in ground, or el gabions; it can also be in @ois manufactured in the form of formwork; this is also true for lifting the pillars.

 The "short channel" will adapt to the nature of the terrain and no difficulty encountered will be able to stop the advancement of the elements which will pass through its airlocks.

 @if the "short channel" is made up as we indicate above with traditional elements, its operation will be as we define it below.

 Initially a grouping of elements will be done by the process that we have just described, in an airlock sufficient in importance, by drawing water, calculated according to the difficulties to be encountered.

 This airlock inside which will be grouped together the building construction will allow the complete storage of the building to be moved; it will be closed at both ends by movable but watertight doors.

 a second and a third airlock constituted in the same way will come to join at the end.

The third airlock similar to the two premmers will complete the entire "short channel"; this airlock will be used in turn, depending on the displacement, tank or channel as shown in figures number 5 and 6
Construction relocation
10 / The elements assembled in the airlock 1 as indicated in figure number 7 will pass through the airlock number 2, after the two airlocks have been filled with water, section fig. AT.

 2 / The airlocks I and 2 will then be separated by a watertight partition; airlock 1 will be emptied of its water which will go into airlock 3; disassembled, this airlock will be reassembled al oout the airlock 3.

 The disassembled airlock 1 is reassembled, and the maneuver will continue as often as necessary.

 In the case where the short canal "encounters marshy ground, a group of fascines (@) made up of long stems of interwoven willows, arranged on the ground like a thick carpet, will form a distribution surface which will be made waterproof by adding clay, figure number 8.

 Figure 9 shows the block rising in the canal.

 Such a method of transporting heavy loads could be used for riprap in rivers or seas; the rocks intended to be placed on the banks being in this case directly transported by the river or the existing environment.

 The use of an airlock channel for the implementation of this process being reserved for terrestrial applications.

 By way of illustration, a five-ton block was transported according to this process using a rudimentary boat of the size of a simple boat.

Claims (2)

 - CLAIMS  fix a boat above the logs.  charging using cables or ropes, and  which consists of fixing wooden logs on the  natural physical means characterized in 10 / Method of transporting heavy loads using  in the form of dikes, in earth, in Dois, eu in ga @ ions, ...  Create a channel around the load  ensured by hauling.  the elevation of the load, its displacement being  Fill the so-called canal with water 2 / Dike for the implementation of the method according to the  claim 1 characterized as a channel  consisting of airlocks closed at their ends by  movable and movable doors,