Expanding structures, and device and method for expanding the same
OwnerMoshe Oreinventor
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Abstract
Devices for accumulating material within a limited space, such that at most insignificant amount of material leaves the device prior to the device being at full capacity. One embodiment comprises an expandable structure to be filled, comprising a material receiving member for receiving expansible material, such that the expansible material is inserted into the member and expands within the member prior to part of the material exiting the material receiving member into another member, wherein the expansible material expands and rigidizes within the material receiving member and within the another member to form a rigid structure having a required form.
Claims22
An expandable structure to be filled, comprising,
- a material receiving member for receiving expansible material, such that the expansible material is inserted into the member and expands within the member prior to part of the expansible material exiting the material receiving member into another member;
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- an external layer encompassing the material receiving member, wherein space formed between the external layer and the material receiving member receives materials through openings in the material receiving member, and wherein the external layer is tearable as a result of the expansion of the expansible material,
- wherein the expansible material expands and rigidizes within the material receiving member and within the another member to form a rigid shape having a required form.
An expandable structure to be filled, comprising,
- a material receiving member and a second member, the material receiving member receiving expansible material which expands within the material receiving member prior to part of the expansible material exiting the material receiving member into the second member,
- wherein the expansible material expands and rigidizes within the material receiving member and within the second member to form a rigid shape having a required form,
- wherein the material receiving member limits initial volume of the expanding material, and once the material receiving member is filled due to expansion of the expanding material, the material receiving member opens to let the expanding material to the second member, and
- wherein the material receiving member comprises openings and wherein the material receiving member comprises a folding grille which unfolds as the material receiving member and the second member fill.
An expansible shape to be filled, comprising,
- a material receiving member for receiving expansible material wherein the expansible material rigidizes within the material receiving member, and the structure forms a triangular prism to be used as a ramp for loading or unloading a freight to or from an elevated location,
- wherein the expansible shape comprises a multiplicity of material receiving members arranged horizontally on each other, such that the topmost member is of a substantially right-angled triangular prism shape, and additional members are of a right-angled trapezoid prism shape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.