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.
Claims17
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 the substantially closed side wall element panel is provided with means for receiving a hinge member for the purpose of connecting the substantially closed side wall element panel pivotally to a neighbouring side wall element panel and/or to a partition wall, wherein the means for receiving a hinge member comprises one or more apertures in the panel and means for covering or blocking the one or more apertures to prevent or hinder a gabion fill material from escaping through said one or more apertures, and wherein the substantially closed side wall element panels act in use of the gabion to prevent, in the absence of the aid of a gabion lining material, gabion fill materials from falling through the side walls.
A multi-compartmental gabion, comprising opposed side walls connected together at spaced intervals along the length of the gabion by a plurality of partition walls, the spaces between neighbouring pairs of partition walls defining, together with the side walls, individual compartments of the multi-compartmental gabion, individual compartments of the multi-compartmental gabion being bounded by opposed side walls sections of the respective opposed side walls, the partition walls being pivotally connected to the side walls, and each side wall sections of the individual compartments comprising at least one rigid, substantially closed side wall element panels, pivotal connections being provided between neighbouring side wall element panels allowing the multi-compartmental gabion to fold concertina-wise for storage or transport, wherein the pivotal connections comprise means for receiving a hinge member, and wherein the means for receiving a hinge member comprises one or more apertures in the substantially closed side wall element panels and means for covering or blocking the one or more apertures to prevent or hinder a gabion fill material from escaping through said one or more apertures, and 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.
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