Inflatable fluid storage container and flood barriers
OwnerPeter L. Levyinventor
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Abstract
A reliable leakage resistant inflatable container is disclosed having outer construction container shape of a vertical extrusion formed from a non-rectangular closed polygon base such that an inflatable container lateral side surface is conformably angular to an adjacent container lateral surface such that an external applied pressure to a liquid filled inflatable container wall will transfer the external pressure to an adjacent lateral surface aligned container wall. A plurality of inflatable containers placed conformably with lateral angular sides in parallel build a structurally fluid filled container wall for a load transferring flood barrier.
Claims18
An inflatable container for retaining a liquid for storage and for a stackable self-supporting flood barrier comprising:
- an inflatable container having liquid impervious material walls with reinforced edges,
- the inflatable container edge coupled to loops contiguous with the reinforced container edges,
- the inflatable container with a shape formed by a vertical extrusion from a non-rectangular closed polygon base,
- the inflatable container with an attached sheet of liquid impervious material, reinforceably attached to the inflatable container base edge, and
- two concentric orifices
- whereby containers placed lateral side wall-to-lateral-side-wall will enable the lateral sides to complement each other is such a way as to transfer container front wall forces to lateral container side wall from filled container to filled container barrier members such that the internal pressure across the wall of containers will be transferred to the lateral wall of stacked neighbors to reinforce each water container individually by support from neighbor or laterally adjacent filled containers.
A method for an inflatable container for retaining a liquid for storage and for a stackable flood barrier further comprising the steps of:
- providing an inflatable container having liquid impervious material walls reinforced edges,
- providing inflatable container having the inflatable container edge coupled to reinforced loops contiguous with the reinforced container edges,
- having an inflatable container shape formed by a vertical extrusion from a horizontal non-rectangular closed polygon base having non-rectangular base lateral sides,
- providing an inflatable container attached sheet of liquid impervious material, re-enforceably attached to the inflatable container base edge, and
- having at least two concentric orifices on a container wall coupled to a cap
- whereby containers placed lateral side wall-to-lateral-side-wall will enable the lateral sides to complement each other is such a way as to transfer container front wall forces to lateral container side wall from filled container to filled container barrier members such that the internal pressure across the wall of containers will be transferred to the lateral wall of stacked neighbors to reinforce each water container individually by support from neighbor or laterally adjacent filled containers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.