Gabions
AssigneeHesco Bastion Limited
InventorJames Heselden
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Abstract
A single box gabion is disclosed. The gabion comprises interconnected side walls. Each side wall comprises at least one substantially closed side wall element panel that prevents a gabion fill material from falling through the side wall without the aid of a gabion lining material. The single box gabion can be coupled together to form a modular gabion structure 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.
Claims17
A gabion comprising a plurality of interconnected side walls, 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 sheet material,
- wherein the substantially closed side wall element panel is provided with a hinge receiving means for connecting the substantially closed side wall element panel pivotally to a neighbouring side wall element panel, thus allowing the gabion to fold for storage or transport from the fully erected and connected condition without detaching any panels from one another;
- wherein additional reinforcing members are affixed along the interconnection edges of said substantially closed side wall element panels,
- wherein each of said reinforcing members comprises a strip, and
- wherein said substantially closed side wall element panel is effective in preventing a gabion fill material from falling through the side wall without the aid of a gabion lining material.
A gabion comprising a plurality of interconnected side walls,
- wherein each of the plurality of side walls comprises at least one substantially closed side wall element panel manufactured of a sheet material,
- wherein the substantially closed side wall element panel is provided with a hinge receiving means for connecting the substantially closed side wall element panel pivotally to a neighbouring side wall element panel, thus allowing the gabion to fold for storage or transport from the fully erected and connected condition without detaching any panels from one another;
- wherein each of said plurality of side wall element panels comprises a first row of interconnection edge apertures and a folded over edge section comprising a second row of interconnection edge apertures, wherein the apertures are configured for receiving a hinge member, and
- wherein the substantially closed side wall element panel is effective in preventing a gabion fill material from falling through the side wall without the aid of a gabion lining material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.