Erosion prevention apparatus

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AN EROSION PREVENTION SYSTEM FOR PREVENTING SEASHORE BEACH EROSION COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF ELONGATED FRAMEWORKS POSITIONED OUT FROM THE BEACH SUBMERGED BELOW THE MEAN LOW WATER LEVEL WITHOUT OBSTRUCTION TO NAVIGATION OF SURFACE CRAFT THEREOVER AND IN A POSITION GENERALLY ENDWISE ADJACENT EACH OTHER TO FOLLOW THE GENERAL CONTOUR OF THE BEACH LINE, EACH ELONGATED FRAMEWORK HAVING A PLURALITY OF SPACED APART TRANSVERSE GENERALLY TRIANGULAR FRAMES WITH TWO LEGS OF EACH FRAME DIVERGING DOWNWARDLY AND INTERCONNECTED WITH A BASE CROSS PIECE IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT THE OCEAN BOTTOM, AT LEAST SOME OF SAID LEGS OF THE FRAMES EXTENDING DIVERGENTLY DOWNWARDLY BEYOND THE CROSS PIECES INTO THE OCEAN BOTTOM TO ANCHOR SAID ELONGATED FRAMEWORK THERETO, EACH FRAMEWORK HAVING A PLURALITY OF SPACED APART ELONGATED BAFFLE MEMBERS CONNECTING THE LEGS OF SAID TWO LEGS OF EACH OF SAID SPACED APART FRAMES DEFINING SHOREWARD AND SEAWARD FACES OF THE FRAMEWORK AND THE BAFFLE MEMBERS HAVING UPWARDLY EXTENDING PLANAR SURFACES WITH THEIR AXES EXTENDING GENERALLY HORIZONTALLY AND ARRANGED IN A COMMON PLANE ON THE SHOREWARD FACE AND ON THE SEAWARD FACE AND THE TWO FACES UPWARDLY CONVERGENT AT ATTITUDES WITH RESPECT TO THE GENERAL VERTICAL HEIGHT OF EACH FRAMEWORK SO AS TO RETARD THE MOTION OF THE WATER, THE LOWERMOST BAFFLE MEMBERS BEING IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT THE CROSS PIECE AND THE OCEAN BOTTOM AND THE TOPMOST BAFFLE MEMBERS BEING POSITIONED ON THE LEGS OF SAID FRAMES BELOW THE MEAN LOW WATER WITHOUT OBSTRUCTION TO NAVIGATION OF SURFACE CRAFT, THE OTHER BAFFLE MEMBERS BEING SPACED APART THEREBETWEEN, AND FROM EACH OTHER A DISTANCE GREATER THAN THE UPWARDLY WIDTH OF EACH PLANAR SURFACE, WHEREBY INCOMING WAVE MOTION OF THE SEA PASSES OVER AND THROUGH THE FRAMEWORKS AND BETWEEN THE BAFFLES AND IS SLOWED DOWN AS IT RUSHES UP THE OCEAN BOTTOM AND FLOOR OF THE BEACH AND HAS ITS UNDERTOW MOTION AND BACKWASH RATE OF FLOW ARRESTED SO THAT THE SAND CARRIED IN AND THE SAND STIRRED UP IS DEPOSITED ON THE BEACH AREA SPACED WELL SHOREWARD IN FROM SAID FRAMEWORKS.