초록

A flume of the type designed to carry a stream of water in which passenger carrying vessels float is built in sections that are formed nearly exclusively by fiberglass, structural strength being provided by fiberglass box beams integrally formed with the trough.

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For a water flume adapted to carry a stream of water in which passenger carrying vessels float and are carried thereby, a plurality of flume sections adapted to be connected together in order to form the water flume, each section comprising a fiberglass trough structure having a floor with opposing

For a water flume adapted to carry a stream of water in which passenger carrying vessels float and are carried thereby, a plurality of flume sections adapted to be connected together in order to form the water flume, each section comprising a fiberglass trough structure having a floor with opposing walls integrally formed therewith by fiberglass extending upward therefrom along its sides, both ends of said section having a given shaped opening for mating together with other of said sections to form the flume, an underside of the floor containing at least one structural beam extending along a significant portion of its length and at least one other structural beam extending across the underside of the floor and up the sides outside said trough, each of said beams being formed of fiberglass walls integrally with the section floor and sides and rectangular in cross-section with a non-structural material in a space enclosed by said walls.