Geoinsulation blanket and system for soil

• US 5,833,401 A
• Filed: 04/07/1995
• Issued: 11/10/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Abeltech Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Abeltech Incorporated
• Inventors: Olson, Michael A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Graysay, Tamara L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): MAYO-PINNOCK, TARA LEIGH
• Application Number:
  US08/418,707
• Time in Patent Office: 1,313 Days
• Field of Search: 405/16, 405/128, 405/270, 405/268, 405/19, 24/442, 24/443, 24/31 V
• US Class Current: 405/129.75
• CPC Class Codes: B09B 1/00 Dumping solid waste
• CPC Class Codes: E02D 2300/009 with multi-layer structure
• CPC Class Codes: E02D 31/004 Sealing liners
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/2717 with distinct structure for sealing securement joint

Abstract

A system used to insulate soil, most practically in waste sites and the like, including a plurality of geoinsulation blankets and an anchoring means. Each blanket has a flexible plastic casing sealed around its perimeter with at least one air vent through it, a resilient insulation batt contained within the casing, and attachment means of the hook and loop type positioned along its perimeter to adjoin overlapping edges of blankets in the system.

Claims

1. A geoinsulation blanket comprising:

a flexible plastic casing having an outside perimeter consisting of two substantially opposing parallel edges, a front end, a back end, a top surface and a bottom surface;

said casing being sealed around its outside perimeter to prevent the ingress and egress of air;

said casing having at least one air vent through it to control the ingress and egress of air;

said casing having a hook and loop type attachment means whereby a wide strip of the attachment means selected from the group consisting of

a. hook and

b. loop

is fixedly mounted on the top surface and near the outside perimeter of the casing and along one parallel edge and one end, a narrow strip of the attachment means not selected for the top surface is fixedly attached on the bottom surface and near the outside perimeter along the opposite parallel edge and the opposite end; and

,

there is contained within said casing, a resilient insulation batt.

2. A geoinsulation blanket as claimed in claim 1 in which the flexible plastic casing is formed from polyethylene.

3. A geoinsulation blanket as claimed in claim 1 in which the insulation batt is formed from resilient fiber glass insulation.

4. A system for insulating a substrate, said system comprising one or more of the geoinsulation blankets of claim 1 secured together to form a covering on the substrate, said system being anchored on the substrate by a suitable anchoring means.

5. A system for insulating a substrate as claimed in 4 wherein the anchoring means is an anchoring skirt.