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US 10,731,312 B2Granted
Sea walls, retaining walls and like structures using pin piles
AssigneeArmour Wall Group Pty Ltd
InventorJohn Jarvie
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Abstract
A pin pile is disclosed for anchoring sections of sheet pile to form a wall structure. The pin pile has a casing with a plurality of external clutches formed around the periphery. In use other corresponding clutches on the sections of sheet pile can interlock with the external clutches of the pin pile over a range of angles in accordance with a directional extent of said wall structure.
Claims13
A wall structure comprising:
- a pin pile having a casing, said casing comprising at least two male and at least two female clutches, the clutches being formed as one piece of fibre-reinforced polymer with said casing and around a periphery thereof, two of said at least two male clutches forming a pair of male clutches and two of said at least two female clutches forming a pair of female clutches, wherein each male clutch of said pair of male clutches extends from a flange extending from the casing of the pin pile in the same direction as each other and where each female clutch of said pair of female clutches extends from a flange extending from the casing of the pin pile in the same direction as each other, said pin pile being configured to slideably interlock with at least two sheet piles, a first sheet pile at a first periphery of said pin pile and a second sheet pile at a second periphery of said pin pile,
- said at least two sheet piles each comprising two or more male and two or more female clutches, whereby said two or more female clutches of the first sheet pile are configured to slidably interlock with said pair of male clutches of the pin pile at said first periphery of said pin pile and whereby said two or more male clutches of the second sheet pile are configured to slidably interlock with said pair of female clutches of the pin pile at said second periphery of said pin pile to form said wall structure.
A wall structure comprising:
- a plurality of pin piles, each pin pile in said plurality of pin piles having a casing, said casing comprising at least two male and at least two female clutches, the clutches being formed as one piece of fibre-reinforced polymer with said casing and around a periphery thereof, two of said at least two male clutches forming a pair of male clutches and two of said at least two female clutches forming a pair of female clutches, wherein each male clutch of said pair of male clutches extends from a flange extending from the casing of said each pin pile in the same direction as each other and wherein each female clutch of said pair of female clutches extends from a flange extending from the casing of the pin pile in the same direction as each other, each of said pin piles in said plurality of pin piles being configured to slideably interlock with at least two sheet piles, a first sheet pile at a first periphery of said pin pile and a second sheet pile at a second periphery of said pin pile,
- said at least two sheet piles each comprising two or more male and two or more female clutches, whereby said two or more female clutches of the first sheet pile are configured to slidably interlock with said pair of male clutches.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.