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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
SAMUEL W. BROOKS, OF BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS.
PROTECTING SHORES.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 611,588, dated September 27, 1898.
Application filed March 31, 1898, Serial No. 675,949, (No model.)To all whorn it may concern:
Be it known that I, SAMUEL W. BROOKS,
a citizen of the United States, residing at
Brownsville, in the county of Cameron and
5 State of Texas, have invented new and use-
ful Improvements in Protections for River-
Banks and Coast-Washings, of which the fol-
lowing is a specification.
This invention relates to improvements in
1o jetties or retaining-walls for the protection of
river-banks and coast-washings; and the nov-
elty and many advantages will appear from
the following description and claims when
taken in connection with the annexed draw-
15 ings, in which-
Figure 1 is a perspective view of two sec-
tions of the framework and grills with parts
broken away. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-sec-
tional view of my improvements, showing the
20 same in position and anchored to a river-bank.
Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional detail view
taken through one of the coupling-joints and
in the plane indicated by the dotted line x x
of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of
25 the cuff which I employ for connecting the
diagonal braces to the piles.
Referring by letter to said drawings, A in-
dicates the piles, which are composed of pipe
or tubing of sufficient diameter and length.
30 In the construction these piles are first placed
in the river-bed at suitable distances apart
and maybe either driven, screwed, or pumped,
according to the kind and nature of the earth
in which they are to be placed. After the
35 piles have been inserted as described they
are filled with cement a or other suitable ma-
terial, so as to give them sufficient strength
and stability.
B indicates a rail which is also composed
40 of pipe or tubing of metal or the like and
connects the upper ends of the piles by coup-
lings b.
From the construction illustrated it will be
seen that I employ a double row of piles A
45 and A', which are of similar construction and
set in the same manner, with a sufficient
space between. Cross-ties D, which are also
hollow, connect the rails B, and consequently
the piles A, with the rails B' and the piles A'.
50 The couplings for the rails and piles of the
inner set are of a general cruciform shape,
as shown at c, having a depending socket dto receive the upper end of the pile, horizon-
tally-disposed sockets e to receive the rails,
and sockets f, which are also horizontally 55
disposed and in a plane at right angles, or ap-
proximately so, to the sockets e, to receive
the cross-ties D and also bank-braces E, as
will be hereinafter more fully described.
As it is desirable in the construction of the 60
framework that the piles should be held very
firmly I employ diagonal braces F, which are
preferably pitched in opposite directions al-
ternately, as shown. These diagonal braces,
which are also composed of pipe or tubing, 65
are received at their upper ends in a socket
g, disposed obliquely, as shown, and their op-
posite or lower ends take into a similarly-dis-
posed socket h of a cuff G. This cuff, as
better shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings, is 7o
formed in two hinged sections i and j, the
section s carrying the socket h, which may
or may not be internally screw - threaded.
When the socket is provided with a screw-
thread, the brace F must also be screw- 75
threaded; but when the socket is left plain
the brace may be received therein, and in or-
der to prevent the brace from drawing out it
may be secured in any suitable manner, a
very convenient means being to displace the 8o
material of the socket and force it into the
material of the brace by means of a chisel
and hammer, the small circles on the coup-
lings being intended to show where the chisel-
point has been placed. Each section of the 85
cuff carries a lug-eye k, which are designed
to register when the cuff has been closed, and
a bolt l or pin may be employed in the lug-
eyes to secure the sections of the cuff upon
the piles. It is obvious, however, that other 90
suitable means might be employed for this
purpose. For the purpose of rendering the
connections strong and durable I prefer to
insert a section of pipe or tubing H in each
coupling, as better shown in Fig. 3 of the 95
drawings, and these sections II may extend
sufficiently beyond the joint of the coupling
into the piles, cross ties, or braces, as the case
may be.
The bank-braces E are anchored at their ioo
inner ends in the bank, as shown, and such
anchors are illustrated as composed of short
sections of pipe or tubing I and may be of a
less diameter than the other tubing employed
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Brooks, Samuel W. Protecting Shores., patent, September 27, 1898; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513248/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.