Inflatable barge
OwnerPaul Preusinventor
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Abstract
An air or surface deployable, inflatable, flexible wall, fluid holding, towable container having a hollow, generally tubular, flexible wall container, at least one closeable inlet and outlet for directing fluids into and out of the container, gas inflatable barriers extending at least along the longitudinal side walls of the container in the zone of the water line of the container when it is filled with a liquid.
Claims9
An air or surface deployable, inflatable, flexible wall, fluid holding towable container comprising a hollow, generally tubular, flexible wall container, at least one closeable inlet and outlet means for directing fluid into and out of the container characterized by gas inflatable barrier means extending at least along a substantial portion of the longitudinal side walls of said container in the zone of the water line of the container when it is filled with a liquid;
- said inflatable barrier means comprising a plurality of independently gas inflatable chambers arranged in a spaced array and connected together by impervious impregnated fabric, whereby rupturing of one of the plurality of indepndently inflatable chambers will not impair the function of the other of the chambers.
An air or surface deployable, inflatable, flexible wall, fluid holding towable container comprising a hollow, generally tubular, flexible wall container, at least one closeable inlet and outlet means for directing fluid into and out of the container characterized by gas inflatable barrier means extending at least along a substantial portion of the longitudinal side walls of said container in the zone of the water line of the container when it is filled with a liquid, wherein the inflatable barrier means comprises a plurality of longitudinally extending barriers superimposed on each other and covering at least about 240 degrees of the external surface of the flexible wall container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.