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US 4,756,033 AGranted
Reservoir for placing in a fixed position on the ground and method for manufacturing same
OwnerHendrik W. Schelfhorstinventor
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The invention is a reservoir for placing in a fixed position on the ground, for example a swimming pool or a storage tank for liquid and/or solid (bulk) goods having little or no cohesion, for example crop products, coal, manure, spreading salt and the like, having at least a bottom and an upright wall connecting thereto which is resistant to outwardly directed pressure. The invention further provides to this end a reservoir of the type referred to above which displays the feature that the upright wall consists of a number of vertical piles placed in a closed configuration at intervals from one another, a vertical wire mesh arranged between these piles and a bottom element extending on the bottom, on which element an upright wall part is formed or arranged resting against the inner side of the said wire mesh.
A reservoir construction comprising the combination of a plurality of consecutively placed separate elements comprising ground-supported bottom means for defining a barrier impermeable to fluent material contained within the reservoir, a series of vertical piles disposed in spaced relation to each other in surrounding peripheral relation to the bottom means and embedded in the ground, wire mesh means secured to the piles for defining a reservoir space and a reaction structure encircling the reservoir space which is resiliently resistant to hydrostatic pressure imposed thereon by fluent material resident in the reservoir space, and upstanding wall means cooperating with the bottom means and supported by the reaction structure for transferring the hydrostatic pressure to the reaction structure and for completing impermeability of the reservoir space to the fluent material.
A reservoir construction comprising the combination of ground-supported bottom means for defining a barrier impermeable to fluent material contained within the reservoir and including a flexible plastic sheet having a peripheral marginal edge, a series of vertical piles disposed in spaced relation to each other in penetrating relation to the marginal edge and embedded in the ground, wire mesh means secured to the piles inwardly of the marginal edge of the plastic sheet for defining a reservoir space and a reaction structure encircling the reservoir space which is resistant to hydrostatic pressure imposed thereon by fluent material resident in the reservoir space, and wall means including a cylindrical plastic sheet cooperating with the bottom means and supported by the reaction structure for transferring the hydrostatic pressure to the reaction structure and for completing impermeability of the reservoir space to the fluent material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.