Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04H—BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL
  • E04H4/00—Swimming or splash baths or pools
  • E04H4/0012—Floating swimming pools
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
  • A63B69/00—Training appliances or apparatus for special sports
  • A63B69/12—Arrangements in swimming pools for teaching swimming or for training
  • A63B69/125—Devices for generating a current of water in swimming pools
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
  • A63B69/00—Training appliances or apparatus for special sports
  • A63B69/06—Training appliances or apparatus for special sports for rowing or sculling
  • A63B2069/068—Training appliances or apparatus for special sports for rowing or sculling kayaking, canoeing
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
  • A63B2225/00—Miscellaneous features of sport apparatus, devices or equipment
  • A63B2225/60—Apparatus used in water
  • A63B2225/605—Floating

Definitions

• the present invention relates to the field of facilities for the practice of aquatic activities in white water, for example and not limited to sports, such as canoeing, kayaking, swimming, or other recreational activities such as those known under the raft names, tubbing, free style.
• the present invention aims to propose new ways to improve the practice of aquatic activities in white water.
• An important object of the present invention is to allow the provision of means forming an artificial river of easily moving moving water.
• auxiliary objects of the present invention are to provide means responding to the request while ensuring a good safety of the practitioners and respecting the environment.
• FIG. 1 represents a schematic vertical longitudinal sectional view of an installation according to an embodiment of the present invention.
• an installation according to the present invention comprises in combination a floating structure or platform 10 defining an upwardly open flow path 20 and, on the one hand, feed means 30 water from one end of said channel 20, and secondly means 40 for controlling the flow at the opposite end of the track 20.
• the platform or floating structure 10 can be subject to numerous variants of realization. It may be, without limitation, barge, barge, buoy or any equivalent means.
• the flow path 20 may be subject to numerous variants with respect to its geometry, its width, its length, its height, and as to the means which delimit it.
• the track 20 may be delimited by side boards or edges of the floating platform 10 or any means attached thereto.
• the means 30 for supplying water to one end of the flow path 20 and the means 40 for controlling flow at the opposite end may be either integrated on the structure 10 or provided on the outside. of the latter and connected to entry ways and exit ways by any appropriate channel.
• the supply means 30, as well as, if appropriate, the flow control means 40 are formed of pumping systems powered by any suitable energy.
• the pumping means 30 can draw water from an artificial or natural reserve, for example the sea, a river, a river, a body of water, a canal, etc., before discharging it into the track 20.
• the flow control means 40 can reject the water taken at the outlet of the flow path 20, in an artificial or natural reserve, for example and not necessarily the same as that in which the feed means 30 do the sampling.
• the pumping means 30 and the flow control means 40 may form a closed circuit, the output of the means 40 being connected to the input of the means 30. If necessary, such a circuit is supplied by means of complement or force-feeding, in case of loss, by evaporation or others.
• the floating structure or platform 10 preferably comprises floats, caissons or ballasts shown diagrammatically under the reference numeral 12 in FIG. 1, adapted to control, according to the nature of their contents, preferably air or water, the attitude of the structure 10 and in particular to allow the adjustment of the longitudinal slope and the transverse slope of the flow path 20, as well as to adjust the general depression of the platform 10 and of the track 20 with respect to a point of anchoring ( platform for example).
• the installation is provided with servocontrol means making it possible to control the filling and emptying of the ballasts 12 as a function of the mass of water or other elements present on the flow path 20 and / or any other effort applied to the structure 10, to maintain the desired attitude.
• FIG. 2 schematically shows two floating structures 10a, 10b associated end to end.
• FIG. 3 shows two associated structures 10a, 10b associated flank against flank.
• the flow path 20 provided on such floating structures may coincide with all or part of the total cumulative area of all associated floating structures.
• separate flow paths can be provided respectively on each floating structure 10.
• each flow path 20 do not necessarily coincide with those of the seat formed by the floating platform 10. Indeed, width and / or length of the channel 20 may be greater ( s) or lower than the one (s) of this seat.
• each floating structure 10 associated with a passageway between the various flow paths 20 in the form of a passage, for example a flexible one, as shown diagrammatically in FIG. 22 in Figure 2.
• the floating surfaces 10 are adapted to be moved with the aid of an appropriate pusher or tug during a transit on riverways or in the case of transit by sea.
• the floating surfaces 10 it is possible to provide for the floating surfaces 10 to be permanently moored.
• the installation can also be transported by cargo.
• the installation according to the present invention can provide numerous arrangements in the flow path 20.
• the installation may comprise a departure basin 24 preceding the river of running water formed by the flow channel 20 itself.
• the flow path 20 may be made of any suitable material such as concrete, steel, wood, plastic, aluminum, etc.
• the slope of the river of white water is advantageously between 0.4 and 2%. This slope is defined both by the inclination of the bottom 21 of the flow path 20 integrated in the structure 10 or reported thereon, by the water flow defined between the supply means 30 and the means flow control 40 and by the plate controlled by ballasts 12.
• the flow of water is preferably between 3 and 14 m 3 per second.
• the water flow is preferably between 3 and 12 m 3 per second.
• Movements of water in the white water river at the flow path 20 may be generated, either by fixed obstacles such as concrete or precast concrete rock as illustrated at 25 in FIG. by mobile obstacles of the type
• omniflots or any other suitable means, for example using nozzles injecting a controlled flow of water at the side walls of the track 20.
• the flow control means 40 can be used to generate a wave allowing the practice of frestyle or rodeo in the body of water surrounding the invention.
• a treadmill 50 or an elevator-type device or an access ramp may be provided, for example on one of the flanks or one of the ends of the structure. floating to allow increased functionality by allowing users to join the starting point of the flow path 20 after traversing it.
• an unloading system may be installed on flanks of the floating structure.
• an unloading system may be installed on flanks of the floating structure.

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