Unlike all other existing and planned wave pools, the WaveTainer wave generator has no dangerous moving underwater profiles, no hydrofoils or expensive water jet systems, no modular timed sequenced wave systems and no piston wall modules moving backward and forward. It's just a simple yet highly energy-efficient displacement wave generator that exquisitely matches real-world ocean waves. It can produce single waves on demand, every eight seconds.
The present invention represents a substantial improvement over prior wave generating device's in that the present invention is displacement activated. The current invention is a retro fitted steel shipping container. Trade Mark application the “WaveTainer.” The WaveTainer has several advantages over other wave making technologies. Such as the shipping containers can easily be shipped anywhere in the world and then trucked to the surf lake job site for installation. Once the shipping containers arrive on site, they can be easily lifted up by a small crane or excavator and placed into their permeant wave making position. The WaveTainer is a significant advantage of prior wave generating inventions, because it is energy efficient operated by an AC motor, gear box, fly wheel and a belt drive, it has a high frequency capability of producing a wave every eight seconds and is very simply to operate. The WaveTainer can also be operated by hydraulics, such as a hydraulic cylinder or hydraulic motor and belt drive. However, the cost of hydraulics compared to a motor drive system is not cost effective. This is a huge improvement over current plunger wave technologies to make surfing waves because there is a high cost to make each individual plunger. By using a twenty- or forty-foot shipping container this creates huge savings in build out costs. Most plunger wave makers are built in 8-10 feet wide steel modular plunger sections. With using a 20- or 40-foot shipping container, your costs are four times less expensive for 40 feet of wave generation.
The WaveTainer can be made in different widths and heights. The common lengths are, 20 feet and 40 feet shipping containers. Although can be made in any height or length. The height of the shipping containers depends on the height of wave that is being generated. The shipping containers are reinforced and retrofitted with steel stiffeners to ensure as they are oscillating upward and downward that they can handle the forces in displacing the water into the body of water.
There are two steel I Beams, placed in cement footings on both sides of the, 20 foot or 40-foot wave making shipping container. There is a perpendicular I beam at the top of both parallel I beams to hold them together. The channel beams bolt to the I beams running all the way across the wave making container are two channel beams. There is a steel mounting structure that is mounted above the shipping containers. The AC motor, gear box and fly wheel are all bolted to the steel mounting beam. The AC motor turns the gear box connected by a belt and the gear box is connected to the fly wheel via a belt or chain. The rod link is connected to the fly wheel and to the top of the shipping container. As the fly wheel turns the rod link actuates the WaveTainers to oscillate up and down and push a swell into the body of water. The wave making containers can also be powered up and down by using a dual open ended hydraulic or noematic cylinder. Water ballast is added to the shipping containers to reduce upward buoyancy forces. Other ballast can also be added to the shipping containers such as sand, dirt, cement or crushed stone. The wave making containers are made with I beams as the internal steel structure frame. Then there is UHMWPE or HDPE panels that are bolted to the outside frame of the Ibeam structure.
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