US 12,454,336 B2
Modular floating structure and method of construction
Lucien Vouillamoz, Feusisberg (CH); Francisco Daniel Rincon Hanna, Zollikerberg (CH); Alain Jaccard, Ste-Croix (CH); and Pascal Boschi, Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane (CH)
Assigned to Legacy Foundry AG, St. Blaise (CH)
Appl. No. 17/263,167
Filed by LEGACY FOUNDRY AG, Zürich (CH)
PCT Filed Jul. 26, 2019, PCT No. PCT/IB2019/056405
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 26, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/021507, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/703,521, filed on Jul. 26, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/856,826, filed on Jun. 4, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0188405 A1, Jun. 24, 2021
Int. Cl. B63B 35/44 (2006.01); B63B 13/00 (2006.01); B63B 35/32 (2006.01); B63B 73/40 (2020.01)
CPC B63B 35/44 (2013.01) [B63B 13/00 (2013.01); B63B 35/32 (2013.01); B63B 73/40 (2020.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A floating territory made of at least two floatable building components, at least two of the at least two components having a first regular polygonal base end and a second regular polygonal cover end and walls extending essentially in a common direction from the base end to the cover end to enclose a watertight compartment therein, the walls including integral attachment elements comprising dovetails and dovetail grooves for sliding attachment to adjacent complementary attachment elements of an adjacent component, the dovetail grooves extending along the walls from the base end to the cover end, wherein said attachment elements of the building component, when interconnected to another attachment element of another building component, (a) allowing attachment between building components without intermediate components and (b) allowing said floatable building components to slide vertically relative to each other so that the floating territory is able to follow upward and downward movements of the waves.