System for the manufacture and installation of selective intake towers in reservoirs (US Patent 5284402)

Patent number: 5284402 Granted: 1994-02-08 Filed: 1993-02-16 Inventors: Antonio C. Del Villar (31- 28029 Madrid, ES)

Abstract

The system consists in producing an underwater foundation (1) in the appropriate place, close to the dam (2), in the vertical line of said foundation (1) producing a floating platform (4), with buoyancy that can be regulated, and on this platform (4) proceeding with the manufacture of the tower (6-7), by means of a continuous concreting process, up to the