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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7712998 | Flood wall A portable, inflatable flood wall is characterized by a sheet of synthetic plastic material which is folded back on itself to define a chamber between bottom, rear and front portions of the sheet and within which at least one inflatable bladder is secured. When the ... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7651298 | Flood levee and barrier module and system A levee and barrier module for fluid control and containment is provided including an outer module shell and a module-to-module connection system to attach adjacent outer shells. The outer module shell, being in the general shape of a prism or prism with curvilinear... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7357598 | Apparatus and method for deploying geotextile tubes A geotextile container and system for constructing a water barrier or dam is disclosed. A system for maintaining fill material solids in position to form a barrier comprises an elongated sheet of geotextile material capable of coiling upon itself to form a helical s... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7329069 | Sectional interlocking barrier bags A bag made from a length of material (10) divided into a series of three or more substantially equal sized sections (12, 14, 16, 18, 20). Every other section is filled with sand (14, 18), or other particulate material and there is an unfilled se... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7303353 | Relocatable transportable safety crash barrier system A relocatable traffic barrier system including a plurality of elongate barrier modules (112, 113) connected end-to-end, each module having a cavity for receiving a ballast of a fluid material wherein the barrier system includes at least one crash rail (124... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7226236 | Barrier element Barrier element for bounding a carriageway, including a guide element extending about a longitudinal axis. The guide element transversely to the longitudinal axis has on the underside a foot part, which on the first end of the guide element has a base plate. The bas... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7214003 | Segmental floating bulkhead assembly The present invention is directed to the structure of a floatable caisson member and to a segmental floatable bulkhead assembly, formed by assembling a plurality of the floatable caisson members. The present invention also includes a method of fabrication of the flo... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7214004 | Mobile flood wall Mobile flood wall preferably comprising of plastic, characterized by support elements (1 through 5) as plates of a fitting thickness, each in the form of an equilateral triangle with one of the three equal outer sides as the base and wall elements (... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7198426 | Prefabricated road median wall A prefabricated road median walls are mounted along a median line of a road to divide the road into two sections according to the direction of vehicles traveling on the road. The prefabricated road median wall includes a plurality of unit blocks manufactured by mixi... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7165912 | Apparatus for rebuilding a sand beach A device is provided for preventing shoreline erosion and for rebuilding the sand beach along the shoreline of a large body of water. A series of the devices are placed in side-by-side relation essentially parallel to the shoreline. The device includes a hollow plas... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7118305 | Wave shaped vehicle barrier A vehicle barrier uses adjacent rows of wave-like sections adapted to be positioned on a ground surface. A section is defined by (i) a planar wall extending angularly upward from the ground surface to the section's peak, and (ii) a concave wall extending angularly d... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7083364 | Retaining wall system with interlocked wall-building units A retaining wall structure built of wall-building units such as sand/soil bags or hardenable building units such as clay bricks has interconnecting members placed between adjacent courses of units to attach the adjacent courses to one another. The interconnecting me... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7056057 | Fluid flows control apparatus and method of use A fluid flows control apparatus includes an elongate stocking having a flexible cylindrical sidewall. The sidewall has plural apertures of a shape and placement in the sidewall as to cover a majority of the surface area and to enable the sidewall to expand radially ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7029200 | Shoreline erosion barrier A barrier for reducing erosion along shorelines includes a barrier body formed as a unitary, molded plastic structure. In one embodiment, the barrier body has at least one elongate passage extending through it, between oppositely disposed first and second sides, and... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7021869 | Sediment control device and system A Sediment control devices and systems generally includes a core made up of granular material encased within a puncture resistant fabric, a compressible layer enwrapping the core and a geotextile fabric outer casing. A plurality of such devices provide a system for ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6957928 | Portable floodwater barrier system A portable flood water barrier system is disclosed having one or more portable, attachable, flexible modules. Each module comprises an elongated tubular member sealed at either end by rigid, flanged end caps. Each module is provided with one or more openings to perm... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6913415 | Modular barrier A modular barrier includes a plurality of identical barrier sections. Each section 10 includes a base portion 12 surmounted by an upright portion 14. The upright portion has projections 16, 18 with substantially semicylindrical outer surf... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6817806 | Fluent material confinement system A collapsible fluent material confinement system configured to receive a granular fluent material to form a temporary barrier structure. The fluent material confinement system includes a plurality of strips coupled to on another to form an array of collapsible cells... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6715960 | Collapsible and re-usable flood barrier A pouch (18), made of a water absorbent polymer that expands and becomes a gel in consistency upon absorbing water and that is biodegradable, is placed in each bag (10) of lesser volume. An opening (12) in each bag (10) is unsealed to dra... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6679654 | Flood control system A flood control system including a substantially rigid exterior shell and a flexible bladder having one or more valves for introducing and removing a desired amount of fluid, the shell including opposite first and second rigid sides hingedly connected to ... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6672799 | Portable barrier Durable flat panels are connectable at their edges and are of appropriate shape and dimension to be quickly and simply assembled and secured into a closed hollow prismatic module configuration. A dense fill material is loaded onto the bottom panel prior t... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6619884 | Barrier device and method for building barrier wall A barrier device includes a first containment chamber and a second containment chamber. The first containment chamber is secured to the second containment chamber by a connector. A barrier wall includes a first barrier device having a first containment ch... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6450733 | Mobile anti-flood protection device A mobile anti-flood protection device comprising flexible tubes (1) placed on top of each other with closed ends and at least one water connection. The ends of the tubes (1) are detachably fixed to holding devices (2). The holding devices are removably se... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6390154 | Portable levee system and portable levee system bag A portable levee system includes a bag having a preselected geometric shape. The bag is continuous in that it has a length at least equal to its width, and is preferably many times as long. A top portion of the bag is open for receiving fill material. A p... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6296420 | Fluid control bag assemblies and method of using the same Elongated flood control bags are filled with pillows filled with liquid or inflated with air, the pillows being arrayed in each bag, typically end to end and stacked. The bags are deployed at ground level for control of liquid flow to protect property and... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6186701 | Elongate flexible container An elongate flexible container, made of a textile fabric and having at least one filling opening. The container is filled with solid material, such as sand or other ground material, for the formation of a body adapted for use as a core or base of a dam, a... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6059491 | Portable barrier A portable barrier including an elongate hollow container providing a chamber for holding fluent material to increase its weight has a stabilizing toe projecting outwardly from one of its sidewalls with the upper surface of the toe disposed at an angle re... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6022172 | Reusable portable flexible fillable barrier and method of application thereof The present invention relates to portable flexible fillable barriers that are used to restrain the flow of fluids and to serve as reservoirs, containers (for solids as well) and embankments. The portable flexible fillable barrier is collapsible upon itsel... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6012872 | Flood control system A flood control system, in one aspect involving providing a plurality of substantially rigid containers, at least some of the containers having a top portion, a bottom portion and substantially rigid sidewalls operably connecting the top and bottom portio... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5634742 | Bulkhead for and method for dry isolation of dam gates A bulkhead for dry isolation of dam gates, the bulkhead comprising a plurty of tubular log members bound together to form a platform assembly adapted to float in a horizontal attitude on a water body surface. Water and air conduits are in communication w... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5632573 | Wall-like retainer segments for retaining liquids What is disclosed herein is a novel device for retaining liquids, such as water, such as in the control of flood waters. Also disclosed is its utility as a portable wall system which can be used to build support structures for swimming pools, synthetic wa... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5195846 | Spillway for discharging extraordinary floods at dams having at least two flood discharge structures For the purpose of providing a more economical alternative to conventional control gates for the quasi-permanent closure of all or part of the length of the overflow spillway of a dam except when discharging extraordinary floods, the invention consists of... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5176468 | Shoreline erosion control and refurbishing means This invention is an erosion control device in the form of a plurality of nestled, triangular-in-cross-section modules forming units. These units can be interconnected to form erosion control device of any desired length. These erosion control and refurbi... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5032038 | Overflow spillway for dams, weirs and similar structures For the purpose of effecting a quasi-permanent raising of the normal water level of an impounded reservoir and thereby augmenting its storage capacity except during the passage of major floods, the invention consists of installing on the sill of the spill... | 07/16/1991 |
| 4661014 | Prefabricated civil engineering module, method for the construction of a structure including said module and resulting structure System for the construction and utilization of multitubular structures called modules A, whose joined elements (2) have a cylindrical or prismatic shape. The dimensions (L, l) transversely to the axis (X--X) of the elements (2) are greater than the dimens... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4650368 | Flood water containment bag A flood water containment bag constructed of lightweight, inexpensive porous material with a quantity of water absorbent material therein which increases substantially in volume and weight when it absorbs water entering into the interior of the bag. The b... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4189252 | Undersea platform construction system An improved structure adapted for undersea construction is described comprising a plurality of foundation blocks, each foundation block comprising a rectahedral parallelepiped opposite faces of which are concave and convex, respectively, the opposite face... | 02/19/1980 |
