EP0735198A1 - Quickly installed protection system - Google Patents

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EP0735198A1
EP0735198A1 EP96200799A EP96200799A EP0735198A1 EP 0735198 A1 EP0735198 A1 EP 0735198A1 EP 96200799 A EP96200799 A EP 96200799A EP 96200799 A EP96200799 A EP 96200799A EP 0735198 A1 EP0735198 A1 EP 0735198A1
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Ferdinando Topa
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
    • E02B—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING
    • E02B3/00—Engineering works in connection with control or use of streams, rivers, coasts, or other marine sites; Sealings or joints for engineering works in general
    • E02B3/04—Structures or apparatus for, or methods of, protecting banks, coasts, or harbours
    • E02B3/10—Dams; Dykes; Sluice ways or other structures for dykes, dams, or the like
    • E02B3/106—Temporary dykes
    • E02B3/108—Temporary dykes with a filling, e.g. filled by water or sand
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D88/00—Large containers
    • B65D88/16—Large containers flexible
    • B65D88/20—Large containers flexible with rigid end-walls
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D90/00—Component parts, details or accessories for large containers
    • B65D90/22—Safety features
    • B65D90/24—Spillage-retaining means, e.g. recovery ponds
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
    • E02B—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING
    • E02B3/00—Engineering works in connection with control or use of streams, rivers, coasts, or other marine sites; Sealings or joints for engineering works in general
    • E02B3/04—Structures or apparatus for, or methods of, protecting banks, coasts, or harbours
    • E02B3/12—Revetment of banks, dams, watercourses, or the like, e.g. the sea-floor
    • E02B3/122—Flexible prefabricated covering elements, e.g. mats, strips
    • E02B3/127—Flexible prefabricated covering elements, e.g. mats, strips bags filled at the side
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
    • E02D—FOUNDATIONS; EXCAVATIONS; EMBANKMENTS; UNDERGROUND OR UNDERWATER STRUCTURES
    • E02D29/00—Independent underground or underwater structures; Retaining walls
    • E02D29/02—Retaining or protecting walls
    • E02D29/0208—Gabions

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  • This invention relates to a quickly installed protection system.
  • building structures such as residential blocks, industrial sheds and the like are to be constructed on unlevel or inconsistent ground, a flattened region or surface on which to site the construction has to be formed.
  • the soil has to be levelled and hence removed. This requires the formation of perimetral or partial containing structures of a certain size for the excess soil removed from the levelled region.
  • cage structures are also used for forming fixed embankments or even for forming supplementary containing embankments or barriers in the case of natural calamities such as floods, overflowing of rivers and lakes etc.
  • mixed box structures consisting of an outer part in the form of a metal mesh cage of the aforesaid known type, and an inner lining part of flexible sheet material. This structure enables the cage to be filled not only with stones and blocks but also with sand and earth.
  • a structure for the outer metal mesh part has also been proposed in the form of a bellows with transverse mesh separation walls, which enables a series of box shapes or cells already joined together to be set up and defined. In this manner, when the structure has been constructed it can be folded flat into a minimum containing space, ready for use. In reality, the lining sheet has to be arranged within and fixed to the metal mesh structure directly during its production, this resulting in a considerable time and cost increase.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a containing structure for inert materials of the aforesaid general type which overcomes all the stated technical drawbacks and problems.
  • a quickly installed protection system comprising, when opened into its operating position, at least one upwardly open box-shaped cell or region defined by walls and connectable to other box-shaped cells or regions, characterised in that the longitudinal, transverse and base walls of said at least one cell are formed of a material of high-strength textile type, on at least one pair of mutually opposing said walls there being provided supporting rib elements.
  • the figures generally show a quickly installed protection system according to the invention, the multiple modular element of which is indicated overall by 11.
  • Such a protection system 11 forms a containing structure when opened into its operational position as partly shown in Figure 2, and consists of a plurality of upwardly open box-shaped cells or regions 12 defined by a series of system walls.
  • the protection system could be defined by independent mutually separated single cells 12 which can be connected in series with each other to form the containing structure or container of the quickly installed protection system.
  • This multiple or single cell system is formed from a natural or synthetic material of textile type which in the first case defines the longitudinal lateral walls, the end walls and the intermediate transverse walls forming the cells, and in the second case all the walls of an individual cell.
  • the natural-fibre textile material can be for example of jute or cotton
  • the synthetic material is a fabric formed from high-density polyethylene (HDPE) yarn stabilized against UV, or polypropylene (PP).
  • HDPE high-density polyethylene
  • PP polypropylene
  • Sewing 13 is used to form the individual cells or to connect the crosspieces and endpieces to the base and longitudinal fabric, or alternatively the lateral and base walls are formed from a single U-folded fabric, which is traversed by a series of crosspieces 14 sewn to it at 13 to form the cells, or the box-shaped regions 12 in the case of the multiple module.
  • the system in its most complete form can be equipped with supporting reinforcement elements, such as a pair of ribs 15 located in end regions 16 of the containing structure 11 and which, for example, can be of upwardly open U-shape.
  • further supporting reinforcement elements such as further ribs 17 are positioned on the longitudinal walls to define a sinusoid formed from straight portions.
  • These further ribs 17 are in the form of bars hinged at their base at 18 and having their free ends 19 insertable into suitable seats 20 formed in the upper edge of the lateral wall of the fabric in proximity to the crosspieces 14.
  • the seats 20 are defined by superposed fabric parts similar to the structure fabric or parts of the actual structure fabric, and are able to receive the ends of the straight sinusoid portions of the ribs 17.
  • the ribs comprise a bar 21, for example coinciding with the hinging point, which connects together the ribs 17 of opposing longitudinal walls.
  • each rib 17 there can be positioned further bars 22 hinged at at least one of their ends 24 to the ribs 17.
  • the bars 22, which act as struts, are locked against the other rib 17 by pins 23 insertable into one of a series of holes 25 provided in the rib 17.
  • the bars 22 hence tend to open out the V to tension the upper edge of the containing structure of the system. Hence when aligned with each other the bars 22 limit the opening of the lateral walls of the fabric to a predetermined extent, while at the same time giving a certain strength to the entire containing structure, to vertically support the containing structure during its filling.
  • the containing structure for inert materials of the present invention can be formed as unit modules comprising single cells which can be connected together, or as standard modules of a certain length, for example 10 m, consisting of a certain number of cells 12, for example ten.
  • a barrier of any length can be formed.
  • a multiple module can be quickly adjusted to provide the desired size and number of cells.
  • barriers can be formed of a length variable at will, for example of 10, 20 or 50 metres.
  • a number of cells 12 can be kept folded or closed by using locking elements, not shown, for example in the form of inverted U-pieces, inserted into appropriate seats (also not shown). The required number of cells are then maintained in the flat state to form a containing structure of length less than the standard module ( Figure 3).
  • a locking element can be used to maintain one or more longitudinal walls closed.
  • this constraint which is applied only to one wall of the fabric, one or more cells can be maintained flattened or partially flattened along one longitudinal wall, whereas the other cell or cells are opened partially or completely, to form within the containing structure one or more curved cells of the required size, enabling a containing structure to be shaped according to particular requirements.
  • Figure 5 shows how a structure of the protection system of the invention can be provided with an upper cover element 26.
  • This application is suitable for particularly severe operational conditions and where it is necessary to prevent possible erosion of the filling material due to strong wind or a water level higher than the barrier height.
  • the cover element 26 can be an additional fabric formed from the same material as the walls of the containing element, or any suitable different material.
  • Figure 8 shows a second embodiment of the system according to the invention, in which its reinforcement elements are two bars 27 connected together by a hinge 28.
  • the other ends of the bars 27 can be rotated on end portions of transverse ribs 29 and are provided with holes 30 to be mounted on the ribs 29, they also comprising at least one further hole 31 transverse to the rib to receive a pin 32.
  • the pin 32 also passes through a corresponding hole (not shown) provided in the rib to lock the bars 27 when these are aligned in the open position.
  • the bars 27 are located close to the upper edges of the longitudinal walls of the cells 12, two being provided for each cell 12.
  • Said transverse ribs 29, located along the sewn seams 13, also form support elements for the structure or system.
  • Figure 9 shows a third embodiment of the system according to the invention, in which its reinforcement elements again consist of bars 27a connected together at a hinge 33, about which they can partly rotate.
  • the other end of the bars 27a is hinged at 34 about upper ends of transverse ribs 29,
  • the bars are again located in proximity to the upper edges of the walls of the cells 12.
  • Two bars 27a are provided for each cell 12 and are rotatable from an elbow position in which the cells are flat to an aligned position in which the cells are formed. They can be locked in this latter position by a pin 35 insertable through holes 36 in the two bars, which are aligned only when the cell 12 is open and extended.
  • Transverse ribs 29 are again provided.
  • modules such as that shown in Figure 1, 8 or 9 are used in succession. Starting from the flattened form shown therein, the containing structural module is raised and pulled outwards to widen the various cells forming the barrier or containing element.
  • the structural module When it has been unfolded into the required straight or curved shape, the structural module is filled with inert material of the prescribed type, such as sand, stones etc. During this filling it is advisable to initially fill the two end cells of the module and then carry on to completion.
  • inert material such as sand, stones etc.
  • the particular form of the system according to the present invention also enables the containing structure to be easily adapted to irregular ground, as shown in Figure 6. This is because the system base and the complete structure can undergo considerable deformation. Consequently the system has considerable capability of adaptation to the ground.
  • Figure 7 shows how a multiple structure can be formed consisting of several superposed and variously associated modular elements filled with inert materials.
  • the structural system of the present invention can therefore be used to form a barrier, a bulkhead, an embankment or a civil or military protection arrangement of considerable functionality and of easy and quick installation.
  • the system of the present invention has the valuable and advantageous characteristic of being self-supporting.
  • the system can be emptied by making parts of the constituent textile material of the overall or partial containing element, ie the single cell or the multi-cell module, releasable. In this manner the system can be salvaged at low cost.
  • a further advantage of the system of the present invention is its considerably smaller weight than the arrangements of the known art with an outer metal cage.

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