Sediment control

• US 7,172,372 B2
• Filed: 10/25/2005
• Issued: 02/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2003
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Environmental Systems LLC
• Original Assignee: Environmental Systems LLC, Richard Sherratt
• Inventors: McGinn, John H.
• Primary Examiner(s): KRECK, JOHN J
• Application Number:
  US11/257,739
• Publication Number:
  US 20060039761A1
• Time in Patent Office: 469 Days
• Field of Search: 405/15, 405/16, 405/19, 405/32, 405/302.4, 405/302.6, 405/302.7, 210/170, 210/747, 442/361, 442/366, 442/367, 442/327, 428/357, 428/372
• US Class Current: 405/302.6
• CPC Class Codes: E02B 3/041 using active mechanical means, e.g. fluidizing or pumping
• CPC Class Codes: E02B 3/043 Artificial seaweed
• CPC Class Codes: E02B 3/126 mainly consisting of bituminous material or synthetic resins
• CPC Class Codes: E02D 17/202 with flexible securing means
• CPC Class Codes: E03F 5/0404 with a permanent or temporary filtering device; Filtering devices specially adapted therefor

Abstract

A sediment control roll includes a threshold member having large apertures therethrough, a hollow sediment collection chamber, and an outflow filter having small apertures therethrough. The sediment control roll can be used to collect sediment in runoff from a construction site, or to reduce removal of sediment from an existing land mass. The sediment control roll can for example be made by rolling up extruded polymeric netting with filter cloth attached thereto.

Claims

1. A method of making a sediment control roll, the method comprising

(A) providing a precursor for a sediment control roll, the precursor comprising (i) an apertured sheet material having apertures therethrough, each of the apertures having an area of 0.01 to 1.0 in.², and (ii) a sheet of filter material which has apertures therethrough, each of the apertures having an area of less than 0.01 in.², and which is secured to part or all of the apertured sheet material;

(B) shaping the precursor to provide a generally tubular body (a) which comprises first and second parts of the apertured sheet material which overlap each other, and (b) in which at least part of the filter material is secured to at least part of an interior surface of the generally tubular body; and

(C) securing the overlapping first and second parts of the apertured sheet material together.

2. A method according to claim 1 wherein the overlapping first and second parts are secured together by an adhesive or by melt bonding.

3. A method according to claim 1 wherein the overlapping first and second parts are secured together by mechanical interlocking.

4. A method according to claim 3 wherein the mechanical interlocking is releasable.

5. A method according to claim 1 wherein a portion of the apertured sheet material having filter material secured thereto extends tangentially from tubular body, thus providing a location member.

6. A method according to claim 1 wherein the first and second parts of the apertured sheet material overlap over a generally rectangular area which extends over the length of the tubular configuration and is 0.5–

3 in. (12.5–

75 mm) wide.

7. A method according to claim 6 wherein the first and second parts of the apertured sheet material overlap over a generally rectangular area which extends over the length of the tubular configuration and is such that at least 20% of the filter material is sandwiched between the overlapping layers.

8. A method according to claim 1 whereinthe apertured sheet material is composed of a multiplicity of polymeric strands;

each of the polymeric strands having a thickness, viewed at right angles to the plane of the sheet material, of 0.1 to 0.2 in.;

the polymeric strands being connected together at junction points and defining a multiplicity of apertures through the sheet material, each of the apertures having an area of 0.02 to 0.25 in.²; and

the solid surface area of the sheet material being 25 to 65% of the total area of the sheet material; and

2) the sheet of filter material

(i) comprises a synthetic polymer, and

(ii) has a mesh size of 80 to 600 micron.

9. A method according to claim 1 wherein the sediment control roll produced by the method comprises a sediment collection chamber having an unobstructed volume which is 50 to 98% of total volume of the sediment control roll.

10. A method according to claim 1 wherein the sediment control roll produced by the method has a substantially circular cross-section.

11. A method according to claim 1 wherein the sediment control roll produced by the method has a substantially rectangular cross-section.

12. A method according to claim 1 wherein the precursor comprises a substantially rectangular apertured sheet material and a substantially rectangular sheet of filter material secured thereto, the sheet of filter material having substantially the same size as the sheet of apertured sheet material and being secured thereto with substantially coincident edges.

13. A method according to claim 1 wherein the precursor comprises a substantially rectangular apertured sheet material having four edges and a substantially rectangular sheet of filter material having four edges secured thereto, the sheet of filter material having a size which is substantially less the size of the sheet of apertured material and being secured to the sheet of apertured sheet material so that three of the four edges are substantially coincident.

14. A method according to claim 1 wherein the precursor comprises a substantially rectangular apertured sheet material having four edges and a substantially rectangular sheet of filter material having four edges secured thereto, the sheet of filter material having a size which is substantially less than the size of the sheet of apertured material and being secured to the sheet of apertured sheet material so that two of the four edges are substantially coincident.

15. An article which comprisesan apertured sheet material which is composed of a multiplicity of polymeric strands;

each of the polymeric strands having a thickness, viewed at right angles to the plane of the sheet material, of 0.1 to 0.2 in.;

the polymeric strands being connected together at junction points and defining a multiplicity of apertures through the sheet material, each of the apertures having an area of 0.02 to 0.25 in.²; and

the solid surface area of the sheet material being 25 to 65% of the total area of the sheet material; and

2) a sheet of filter material which

(i) comprises a synthetic polymer, and

(ii) has apertures therethrough and has a mesh size of 80 to 600 micron, and

(iii) is secured to the apertured sheet material.

16. An article according to claim 15 which comprises a substantially rectangular apertured sheet material and a substantially rectangular sheet of filter material secured thereto, the sheet of filter material having substantially the same size as the sheet of apertured sheet material and being secured thereto with substantially coincident edges.

17. An article according to claim 15 which comprises a substantially rectangular apertured sheet material having four edges and a substantially rectangular sheet of filter material having four edges secured thereto, the sheet of filter material having a size which is substantially less than the size of the sheet of apertured material and being secured to the sheet of apertured sheet material so that three of the four edges are substantially coincident.

18. An article according to claim 15 which comprises a substantially rectangular apertured sheet material having four edges and a substantially rectangular sheet of filter material having four edges secured thereto, the sheet of filter material having a size which is substantially less than the size of the sheet of apertured material and being secured to the sheet of apertured sheet material so that two of the four edges are substantially coincident.