Method Of Repairing A Ballistics Barrier

• US 20090235507A1
• Filed: 08/08/2008
• Published: 09/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fiberweb Incorporated (Berry Global Group Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Fiberweb Incorporated (Berry Global Group Inc.)
• Inventors: Hawkins, Sheldrick Faris, Cashin, Arthur Henry
• Application Number:
  US12/188,329
• Publication Number:
  US 20090235507A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 29/402.80
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 5/24 for stationary use, e.g. fortifications ; Shelters; Guard Booths air-raid shelters E04H9/04
• CPC Class Codes: F42D 5/045 Detonation-wave absorbing or damping means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/4973 Replacing of defective part

Abstract

A method of repairing a ballistics barrier, the barrier comprised of a plurality of horizontally-offset, interconnected collapsible cells formed from a ballistics fabric. The method includes removing the damaged section of the barrier and replacing it with a substitute ballistics fabric section that is attached to the barrier so that the substitute section mimics the horizontally-offset, interconnected cell structure of the barrier.

Claims

1. A method for repairing a ballistics barrier, comprising:

removing a damaged portion of the ballistics barrier from a first location, wherein the ballistics barrier comprises an array having a first plurality of horizontally-offset, interconnected, laterally collapsible cells, and further wherein the plurality of cells comprises ballistics fabric; and

engaging a replacement section to the ballistics barrier proximate the first location, wherein the replacement section comprises ballistics fabric.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the replacement section comprises a second plurality of horizontally-offset, interconnected, laterally collapsible cells.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the replacement section further comprises a first end, a second end opposite the first end, a first bonding member, and a second bonding member, wherein the first bonding member is attached to and projects away from the first end and the second bonding member is attached to and projects away from the second end.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the ballistics fabric comprises a geotextile material.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the damaged portion is removed from the array by shearing the damaged portion from the array.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

filling the replacement section with ballistics impeding material.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the replacement section is engaged to the barrier by one or more rivets.

8. A method for reconstructing a ballistics barrier having a compromised section, comprising:

detaching the compromised section from the ballistics barrier, wherein the ballistics barrier comprises a ballistics fabric matrix; and

replacing the compromised section with a replacement ballistics fabric assembly.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the ballistics fabric matrix is formed from multiple sheets of ballistics fabric.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the replacement ballistics fabric assembly comprises an engagement section and the ballistics barrier comprises a securement section proximate the engagement section, further comprising:

affixing one or more bonding flaps between the securement section and the engagement section.

11. The method of claim 8 wherein the ballistics fabric matrix and the replacement ballistics fabric assembly each comprise geotextile material.

12. The method of claim 8 wherein the replacement ballistics fabric assembly is attached to the ballistics barrier by one or more mechanical fasteners.

13. The method of claim 8 wherein the replacement ballistics fabric assembly comprises a bottom portion and a stabilization flange extending away from the bottom portion, further comprising:

securing the replacement ballistics fabric assembly by connecting the stabilization flange to a foundation.

14. The method of claim 8 wherein the compromised section is detached by paring the compromised section from the ballistics barrier.

15. A method of fixing a rapid deployment barrier having an impact zone with a damaged section, comprising:

removing the damaged section from the rapid deployment barrier, wherein the damaged section has damaged section dimensions; and

joining a replacement section, having dimensions corresponding to the damaged section dimensions, to the rapid deployment barrier at the impact zone, wherein the replacement section comprises ballistics fabric.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein the rapid deployment barrier comprises a honeycombed array, and further wherein the array comprises a plurality of open cells formed from multiple sheets of ballistics fabric.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein the replacement section is joined to the barrier by a plurality of mechanical fasteners.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

overlapping a plurality of bonding flaps between the replacement section and the barrier.

19. The method of claim 15 wherein the replacement section comprises a first layer at a first elevation and a second layer at a second elevation, higher than the first elevation, engaging the first layer, and wherein each of the first and second layers comprises a perimeter, the method further comprising:

attaching a skirt between the perimeters of the first and second layers.

20. The method of claim 15 wherein the rapid deployment barrier is camouflaged.