Gabions
AssigneeHesco Bastion Limited
InventorJames HESELDEN
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Abstract
The invention provides a gabion which may be used to protect military or civilian installations from weapons assault or from elemental forces, such as flood waters, lava flows, avalanches, soil instability, slope erosion and the like, the gabion comprising side walls connected together at spaced intervals by partition walls, the side walls comprising at least one substantially closed side wall element panel, which acts in use of the gabion to prevent a gabion fill material from falling through the side wall, the said action of the substantially closed side wall element panel being effective without the aid of a gabion lining material.
Claims19
1-29. (canceled)
A gabion comprising side walls connected together at spaced intervals by at least one partition wall, each side wall comprising at least one substantially closed side wall element panel, wherein each substantially closed side wall element panel is manufactured of a relatively rigid sheet material, wherein pivotal connections are provided between neighbouring side wall element panels allowing the gabion to fold concertina-wise for storage or transport, wherein each side wall element panel comprising a releasable interconnection which when released allows the side wall element panel to open with respect to the gabion to allow access from the side of the gabion to any contents of the gabion compartments.
A multi-compartment gabion, comprising individual compartments formed by side walls connected together by partition walls, wherein each individual compartment, with the exception of end compartments, comprises an openable side wall section that allows access from the side of the gabion to any contents of the gabion compartment.
A multi-compartment gabion, comprising individual compartments formed by side walls connected together by partition walls, wherein each individual compartment, with the exception of end compartments, comprises openable side wall sections that allow access to a fill material inside the compartment from opposing sides of the compartment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.