MOBILE FLOOD PROTECTION BARRIER SYSTEM

• US 20160076210A1
• Filed: 04/17/2013
• Published: 03/17/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Istvan Peter Sapi
• Original Assignee: Istvan Peter Sapi
• Inventors: SAPI, Istvan Peter
• Granted Patent: US 9,574,314 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: E02B 3/108 with a filling, e.g. filled by water or sand

Abstract

A mobile flood protection barrier system for quickly stopping and damming back watercourses, overflows, and for raising the embankment in flood protection as a temporary facility. The system has water-fillable water storage units that are connected to one another and supporting structures, the water storage units are placed into the triangular supporting frames of the supporting structure and fixed to supporting structure, to the spacer bar thereof. The water storage unit is made of a single, continuous, rectangular flexible material, divided into three parts by longitudinal folds, has a triangular prism-shape in the filled-up state, with the surface of the middle folded part in contact with the soil, and is open along its upper edges. The lateral ends of the water storage unit are partially closed. The water storage units can be connected to one another via unit coupling extension portions made from their own material.

Claims

1. A mobile flood protection barrier system comprising water-fillable water storage units (5) that are connected to one another and supporting structures, the water storage units (5) are placed into the supporting structures and fixed to the supporting structures, characterized in that the water storage unit is made of a single, continuous, rectangular flexible material, divided into three parts by longitudinal folds, has a triangular prism-shape in the filled-up state, with the surface of the middle folded part in contact with the soil, and is open along its upper edges, the lateral ends of the water storage unit (5) are partially closed;

the water storage unit (5) is fixed into the triangular supporting frames (9) of the supporting structure.

2. The mobile flood protection barrier system according to claim 1, characterized in that at the lateral ends of the water storage unit (5) there are unit coupling extension portions (16) made from the own material of the water storage unit (5).

3. The mobile flood protection barrier system according to claim 2, characterized in that the water storage units (5) are connected to one another with the unit coupling extension portions (16) in such a way that the adjacent unit coupling extension portions (16) are slid into each other.

4. The mobile flood protection barrier system according to claim 1, characterized in that the water storage unit (5) is equipped with supporting straps (17) along its upper edges.

5. The mobile flood protection barrier system according to claim 1, characterized in that a supporting structure has at least two supporting frames (9) and a spacer bar (10);

the supporting frames (9) are connected to each other in pairs at their upper parts with the spacer bar (10) in such a way that the spacer bar (10) extends beyond the supporting frames (9).

6. The mobile flood protection barrier system according to claim 1, characterized in that the lateral ends of the water storage unit (5) are partially closed with waterproofing elements (6).

7. The mobile flood protection barrier system according to claim 6, characterized in that the waterproofing element (6) is a metal strip.

8. The mobile flood protection barrier system according to claim 1, characterized in that the upper edges of the water storage unit (5) are stiffened.

9. The mobile flood protection barrier system according to claim 8, characterized in that the upper edges of the water storage unit (5) are stiffened with metal rods (14) slid into the supporting straps (17).

10. The mobile flood protection barrier system according to claim 1 characterized in that the water storage unit (5) is fixed to the spacer bar (10) by means of the metal rods (14) equipped with metal hooks (15).

11. The mobile flood protection barrier system according to claim 1, characterized in that the supporting frames (9) are fixed to metal bases.

12. The mobile flood protection barrier system according to claim 1, characterized in that the water storage units (5) fixed to the supporting structures and filled with water are covered with safety cover.