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US 10,494,783 B2Granted
Earth retention levee system
AssigneeArmour Wall Group Pty Ltd
InventorJohn Jarvie
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Abstract
An earth retention levee system is disclosed which is constructed from spaced apart facing parallel walls of interlocking sheet piles (1, 2) said sheet piles having outside faces (5) and inside faces (4) formed with gridspines (10) along a longitudinal extent thereof, said gridspines (10) being connected to adjacent edges of geogrids (20) which link said parallel walls and stabilise fill (21) disposed therebetween.
Claims13
An earth retention levee system constructed from:
- spaced apart facing parallel walls, each wall of interlocking sheet piles, said sheet piles each in the form of a box section having inside and outside walls and one or more interconnecting webs extending between the inside and outside walls, said outside walls each having an outside face and said inside walls each having an inside face, each inside face formed with a gridspine that extends from the inside face along a longitudinal extent thereof, the inside faces of the spaced apart facing parallel walls facing each other,
- said gridspines being configured to be connected to adjacent edges of geogrid which are arranged to link said parallel walls and to stabilise fill disposed therebetween in use.
An earth retention levee system comprising:
- at least two parallel walls adjacent to each other and spaced apart, each wall comprising a sheet pile having an outside face and inside face, said sheet pile each in the form of a box section, said outside or said inside face comprising gridspines along a longitudinal extent thereof, each said sheet pile adapted to slidably interlock with an adjacent sheet pile to form wall structures of closed box sections, wherein said gridspines are configured to be connected to adjacent edges of geogrid which are arranged to link said parallel walls and to stabilise fill disposed there between in use.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.