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US 11,028,611 B2Granted
Underground watersilo
OwnerShahriar Eftekharzadehinventor
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Abstract
A method for constructing silos underground to store water.
Claims2
A method for constructing an underground silo, the method comprising:
- a drilling rig disposed to drill at least one vertical cylindrical hole underground having a diameter measuring the same as an outside diameter of said underground silo;
- wet concrete poured at a bottom of said vertical hole underground;
- a closed-bottom, open-top, removable cylindrical form with an outside diameter measuring same as an inside diameter of said underground silo, and a length measuring at least the same as a wall height of said underground silo, said removable cylindrical form centered on said vertical hole and placed on top of said wet concrete;
- water poured inside said removable cylindrical form disposed to sink said removable cylindrical form inside said wet concrete to a desired level;
- wet concrete poured in an annulus between said vertical hole underground and said removable cylindrical form up to a desired level, disposed to function as said wall of said underground silo once set;
- a structural roof equipped with an access means into said underground silo placed on top of said wall of said underground silo once said removable form has been removed;
- backfill placed and compacted on top of said structural roof up to a ground surface.
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A method for constructing an underground silo, the method comprising:
- a drilling rig disposed to drill at least one vertical cylindrical hole underground having a diameter measuring the same as an outside diameter of said underground silo;
- wet concrete poured at a bottom of said vertical hole underground;
- a closed-bottom removable cylindrical form with an outside diameter measuring the same as an inside diameter of said underground silo, and a length measuring at least the same as a wall height of said underground silo, said removable cylindrical form centered on said vertical hole and placed on top of said wet cement;
- a means to sink said removable cylindrical form inside said wet concrete to a desired level;
- a means to resist a buoyant force upon said cylindrical Formby the addition of wet concrete in an annulus between said vertical hole underground and said removable cylindrical form;
- wet concrete poured in said annulus between said vertical hole underground and said removable cylindrical form up to a desired level, disposed to function as said wall of said underground silo once set;
- a structural roof equipped with an access means into said underground silo placed on top of said wall of said underground silo once said removable form has been removed;
- backfill placed and compacted on top of said structural roof up to a ground surface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.