Patent ID: 9567720
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: B63B,E02B,E02D,F03D,F05B,Y02B,Y02E

Claim:
1. An offshore platform for a marine environment, the platform configured to support offshore wind turbines, bridges and marine buildings thereon and adapted for a water depth greater than 5 meters in the marine environment, comprising: a regulating tower section supporting at least one offshore wind turbine thereon, at least one hollow, cylindrical buoyancy tube having an upper end attached to the regulating tower section and a tapered lower end extending downward from the tower section towards a seabed of the marine environment, and a concrete bed cast beneath a surface of the seabed and configured to support the tapered lower end of the at least one buoyancy tube therein, wherein the tapered lower end is a cone-shaped bottom slab having a flat top surface with the apex of the cone-shaped bottom slab pointing downward towards the seabed, the concrete bed within the seabed includes a mirror-image or reversed cone-shaped indentation that is to receive the cone-shaped bottom slab therein, the reversed cone-shaped indentation having been formed in the concrete bed by the cone-shaped bottom slab of the at least one buoyancy tube prior to the concrete bed hardening to a final design strength, and the cone-shaped bottom slab is fixedly secured within the reverse cone-shaped indention of the concrete bed to support the regulating tower section with the at least one offshore wind turbine thereon.