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US 2009/0151293 A1Published application
Bastions for Force Protection and Military Applications
OwnerRyan Christman, Jorge Enrique Gallego +1inventors
InventorsRyan Christman, Jorge Enrique Gallego, Cesar Giraldo
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Abstract
A bastion including one or more free-standing structures for use in, for example, military applications and for force protection. The free-standing structures are made up of a plurality of interconnected fire resistant mesh covered wire panels and are filled with, for example, sand, crushed rock or granular materials.
Claims6
A bastion system comprising:
- at least two external panels, each such panel including
- a frame formed from a regular rectangular grid of regularly spaced apart vertical bars and horizontal bars, including terminal top and bottom horizontal bars and terminal left and right vertical bars, the frame having an inner face and an outer face;
- at least two vertically spaced apart connecting tubes mounted on each of the terminal left and right vertical bars, so as to be disposed substantially coplanar with the frame, the connecting tubes being of substantially uniform length, the vertical spacing being at least twice the length of the connecting tubes, the connecting tubes on the terminal left vertical bar being vertically indexed a predetermined distance, relative to the connecting tubes on the terminal right vertical bar, so as to enable two such external panels to be disposed adjacent to one another, with the connecting tubes of one external panel being interdigitated and vertically aligned with the connecting tubes of the adjacent external panel, to enable a connecting pin to be passed through the interdigitated connecting tubes to releasably fasten the external panels to one another.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.