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(11) EP 4 286 592 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
14.02.2024 Bulletin 2024/07

(43) Date of publication A2:
06.12.2023 Bulletin 2023/49

(21) Application number: 23205261.3

(22) Date of filing: 07.01.2021
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC): 
E02B 17/02(2006.01)
E02B 17/00(2006.01)
(52) Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC):
E02B 17/027; E02B 2017/0091; E02B 2017/0043; E02B 2017/0047
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR

(30) Priority: 10.01.2020 NL 2024640

(62) Application number of the earlier application in accordance with Art. 76 EPC:
21700096.7 / 4087980

(71) Applicant: Van Oord Offshore Wind B.V.
4207 HN Gorinchem (NL)

(72) Inventors:
  • VERNIMMEN, Paul Marius Antonius
    4708 MB Roosendaal (NL)
  • ERENTS, Stefan Petrus Hendrik
    2665 AB Bleiswijk (NL)

(74) Representative: Nederlandsch Octrooibureau 
P.O. Box 29720
2502 LS The Hague
2502 LS The Hague (NL)

   


(54) METHOD OF INSTALLING A SUPPORT FOR SUPPORTING A LOAD STRUCTURE, SUCH AS A WIND TURBINE, ON, FOR INSTANCE, A SEA BED


(57) A jacket for supporting a load structure, such as a wind turbine or transformer platform or an oil or gas platform, on a bed, floor or bottom of, for instance a sea, ocean, lake, harbor or river, wherein the jacket is configured to be provided on a jointly rigid structure of a pile guiding frame, that comprises at least three pile holding sections, wherein each pile holding section allows guiding and maintaining a pile along a pile guiding direction in a vertical orientation, wherein neighbouring and/or opposing pile holding sections are interconnected by mutually crossing diagonal cross beams; wherein said piles are driven through each pile holding section of the pile guiding frame in the bed, floor or bottom such that each pile projects in an upward direction out of the bed, floor or bottom and out of associated pile holding sections over a projection length from each pile holding section.







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