Self-expanding spill containment boom
AssigneeHARBO Technologies Ltd.
InventorsArnon Shany, Boaz Ur, Haim Greenberg
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Abstract
Some embodiments relate to a boom for containing floating material spilled in water comprising: an elongate sheet comprising a plurality of spaced apart units, each unit configured to self-expand from a folded state upon deployment; each unit comprising: a plurality of plates forming an upper portion and a lower portion, the upper portion and the lower portion defined along a vertical axis of the boom unit; and a plurality of stiffening elongate rods, each of the plurality of elongate rods interconnecting at least two plates.
Claims27
A boom for containing floating material spilled in water comprising:
- an elongate sheet comprising a plurality of spaced apart units, each unit configured to self-expand from a folded state upon deployment;
- each unit comprising:
- a plurality of plates forming an upper portion and a lower portion, said upper and lower portions defined along a vertical axis of the boom unit;
- wherein said lower portion includes a plurality of stiffening elongate rods positioned within at least some of said plates forming said lower portion, each of said elongate rods interconnecting at least two plates.
A method for containing floating material spilled in water comprising:
- detecting a spill;
- providing a boom sleeve comprising a plurality of units, each unit comprising an upper portion and a lower portion, said lower portion comprising stiffening elongate rods positioned within at least some of said plates forming said lower portion, each of said elongate rods interconnecting at least two plates;
- deploying said boom sleeve to surround said spill;
- said deploying comprising allowing each unit to self-expand in response to spring-based actuation which expands said upper portion, thereby causing expansion of said lower portion.
A boom for containing floating material spilled in water comprising:
- an elongate sheet comprising a plurality of spaced apart units, each unit configured to self-expand from a folded state upon deployment;
- each unit comprising:
- a plurality of plates forming an upper portion and a lower portion, said upper and lower portions defined along a vertical axis of the boom unit;
- and
- a plurality of stiffening elongate rods, each of said elongate rods interconnecting at least two plates;
- wherein said elongate rods are arranged in a staggered configuration, aligned side by side in a folded state of said boom unit.
A boom for containing floating material spilled in water comprising:
- an elongate sheet comprising a plurality of spaced apart units, each unit configured to self-expand from a folded state upon deployment;
- each unit comprising:
- a plurality of plates forming an upper portion and a lower portion, said upper and lower portions defined along a vertical axis of the boom unit;
- and
- a plurality of stiffening elongate rods, each of said elongate rods interconnecting at least two plates;
- wherein one or more of said elongate rods includes a segment which is folded over another segment of the rod, thereby increasing a weight of the rod locally at the folded segment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.