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US2609666A
US2609666A US35754A US3575448A US2609666A US 2609666 A US2609666 A US 2609666A US 35754 A US35754 A US 35754A US 3575448 A US3575448 A US 3575448A US 2609666 A US2609666 A US 2609666A
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
    • E02B—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING
    • E02B13/00—Irrigation ditches, i.e. gravity flow, open channel water distribution systems
    • E02B13/02—Closures for irrigation conduits
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D88/00—Large containers
    • B65D88/02—Large containers rigid
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
    • E02B—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING
    • E02B7/00—Barrages or weirs; Layout, construction, methods of, or devices for, making same
    • E02B7/005—Deformable barrages or barrages consisting of permanently deformable elements, e.g. inflatable, with flexible walls

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  • the deformable wall assumes the shape of a catenary curve which is the resultant of the pressures or thrusts of the liquid and of its own weight; this shape is an elastic plane or linear Bernouillis curve, where the weight of the wall is negligible. This curve varies with the level of the liquid ahead of the dam.
  • the flexible wall is stressed tensionally in the vertical plane and free from any bending stress irrespective of the level of the liquid. It may therefore be constituted by a very thin membrane: a metallic sheet, asphaltor tar-lined (contingently metal) cloth, waterproof cloth, etc.
  • this atmospheric air may be replaced by pressure air, or gas, or liquid, which thus becomes effective to support the wall.
  • the deformable wall forms a sort of air or water chamber on whose wall the fluid compressed inside of it exerts a pressure that will support the wall.
  • This arrangement allows to install adjustable dams or sluice-gates the height of which is variable in dependency on the pressure of the fluid and on the head.
  • Fig. 1 is a diagrammatic vertical sectional view of an embodiment comprising a deformable wall
  • Figs. 2 and 3 are corresponding views of two modifications of the embodiment shown in Fig. 1
  • Figs. 4 and 5 show two embodiments of a deformable wall whose upper edge can be wheeled on a rail displaced by means of a float;
  • Figs. 6 and 7 are-diagrammatic vertical sectional views of two embodiments, in which the deformablewall is stressed compressively;
  • Fig. 8 is a diagrammatic vertical sectional view of a deformable wall forming a chamber for pressure fluid
  • Figs. 9 to, 13 show various embodiments of-a ribbed, ,a rippled .or-a flanged deformablewall
  • Fig. 1'7 shows one further embodiment ofma damconstructed in accordance with the present invention.
  • an edge E of the deformable wall P is anchored in they soil S while the. other. edgeF is-proppedr by asupport A which may be movable, for instance by the hinging of its two ends or the wheeling of its-bottom end.
  • asupport A which may be movable, for instance by the hinging of its two ends or the wheeling of its-bottom end.
  • Means may be provided which allow; lowering or raising the edge F so as to, discharge the liquid retained over the same.
  • the weight G shouldnot be too small, as compared to the'pressure or. thrust;I.; Since the. wall vP: according 'to the invention provides a curved facing, the weight of the liquid retained between the vertical planes of the edges E and F is large enough to ensure the stability ofthe support A and of the wall P, whereas in dams with a vertical or slightly slopinglining, it is.
  • the invention therefore cuts down the volume of materials to be used and consequently the costs of erection.
  • the support A may take different shapes some of which are as follows:
  • a vertical (Fig. l). or sloping (Fig. 2) propping wall which may be plane or cylindrical depending on whether the dam is straight or arcuate; 1 j
  • the movableness of the prop is advantageous in that it enables the movable wall to retain its .nected to a horizontalthin wall (Fig. 6) or anchored in the earth (Fig. 7-).
  • the deformable wall P which on the his hand undergoes like in the previous cases tensional or compressive stresses in: the vertical plane may on the other hand be subjected to stresses which may be nul;-oriof tensile, or of compressive chara'eter depending on whether the dam is straight orhas its concavity turned downstreams or upa tr'eajms,
  • the deformable wall P is subjected on its one side to the pres-- sure of the liquid, andon the other to the variable pressure of 'a-liquid Zcom'pressed'as desired. 1
  • the two edges of the wall are anchored in the ground or ina massintegral therewith and the wallP forms achamber 'into which a compressed fluid is forced by suitable means.
  • Pipes X and Y are provided through which fluid can be 1 fo'rced'in or let out. According to the'pressure given to this fluid and according to'tlie'level of the liquidrthe .wallwill take a defined. shape.”
  • FIG. 8 Visible in Figure 8 are an inspection passage V and a pile-plank curtain or parapet wall W.
  • the wall P maybe stiifened by horizontal ribs M (Fig. 9) even where it is deformable or according to lines of swiftest descent N (Fig. 10)
  • said shape may here again be a catenary cor-responding tothe pressures of the average level or to the one most frequently assumed by the liquid, or'to 'the one which will give the lowest bending stresses when variation of the level is most unfavorable.
  • the wall may then be rested on props (Figs. 12 and 14) or on arcatures (Fig. '3), or braced (Figs. 6, 7, l3 and 14) or rested on spandrels by which it will be maintained not only at'its. topbe unequal in diameter.
  • concrete which may or may not be reinforced or prestressed
  • concrete may advantageously be used as the building material.
  • Fig. 16 shows a further embodiment in which the flexible wall p is wound around a roller in the one direction while ropes Q retained at their top ends'are wound on the roller R in the reverse direction.
  • the pressure of the liquid retained by the wall tends e. g. to unwind the latter in the direction shown by the arrow in Figure 16 while the pull exerted on the ropes Q tends to rotate the roller R, in the opposite direction.
  • a balance will thus set in where the roller R and the one on which the flexible wall is wound are equal in diameter.
  • the wall p is thus retained at its top edge.
  • the weight of the rollers must be supported by suitable ropes or cables by means of which the system can be wound in OlUOllt as desired.
  • rollers for the windingi'of the flexible wall and of the ropes orcables inay'also Racks may be substituted for the cables.
  • the ends of the roller R. are received in grooves J provided in the walls 0' and can bear. on the walls ofsaid grooves. 1., V
  • a dam comprising, in combinationy a wall made of flexible sheet material and haviiig substantially straight, parallel, and horizontal top and bottom edges extending. across a bodyfiof water in which the dam is located with said bottom edge of said wall fixed to the bed-on which the water is located, and said wall forming part of a cylinder having a horizontal generatri-xsubst-anti'ally parallel to said top and bottom; edges of said wall; and support means conneotedto said top edge or" saidwall to supportsaid top edge formovein'ent while maintaining aid top edge parallel to said cylindergener-atrr i 2.
  • a dam comprising; in ooinbinati-on,--a wall made of flexible sheet materialand having-substantially straight, parallel, and horizontal top and bottom edges eXten-dingacross ap'bod-y- 'of water in which the dam is'located with said bottom edge of said.
  • a darn comprising, in combination a wall -'made of flexible sheet material and shaving; sub
  • a dam comprising, in combination, a wall made of flexible sheet material and having substantially straight, parallel, and horizontal top and bottom edges extending across a body of water in which the dam is located with said bottom edge of said wall fixed to the bed on which the water is located, and said wall forming part of a cylinder having a horizontal generatrix substantially parallel to said top and bottom edges of said wall; and a planar supporting structure extending across and being movably mounted on the bed on which the body of water is located and having an upper edge portion connected to said top edge of said wall to sup- REFERENCES CITED
  • the following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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US3134233A (en) * 1960-11-14 1964-05-26 Stanton R Morrison Method of irrigation
US3218810A (en) * 1961-09-05 1965-11-23 Cons Thermoplastics Company Synthetic levee
US3173269A (en) * 1961-10-13 1965-03-16 Norman M Imbertson Collapsible dam
US3191386A (en) * 1962-01-19 1965-06-29 Robert L Wiegel Hovering bag breakwater
US3576109A (en) * 1968-04-16 1971-04-27 Hovercraft Dev Ltd Flexible wall means
US3928980A (en) * 1969-10-06 1975-12-30 Pneumatiques Caoutchouc Mfg Inflatable water-retaining barrier
US3597926A (en) * 1970-01-20 1971-08-10 Hovercraft Dev Ltd Method of restricting the flow of bodies of liquid
US3967453A (en) * 1973-09-18 1976-07-06 Vincent Bauzil Connecting channel between two different water levels
US4314774A (en) * 1978-10-31 1982-02-09 Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. Pneumatically inflatable flexible envelope type dam
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US4906134A (en) * 1985-07-29 1990-03-06 Hoyeck Ralph H Self supporting flexible wall dams
US4696598A (en) * 1985-08-21 1987-09-29 Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. Erecting/lying-down dam or sluice gate made of flexible sheet
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US4836713A (en) * 1985-10-12 1989-06-06 Bridgestone Corporation Flexible sheet dams
US4787774A (en) * 1987-07-01 1988-11-29 Grove William M Fluid control apparatus
US4981392A (en) * 1989-06-29 1991-01-01 Taylor Geoffrey L Water inflatable structural module
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US20120207545A1 (en) * 2011-12-14 2012-08-16 Clarence A. Cassidy Rapid Deployment, Self-Inflating, Interlocking, Modular Flood-Water Barrier Wall System
CN103572740A (zh) * 2013-11-07 2014-02-12 河海大学 一种充气式自动启闭闸门和水闸装置
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US9512581B2 (en) * 2014-02-27 2016-12-06 Caylym Technologies International, Llc Rapid deployment barrier system
US10011966B1 (en) * 2017-07-10 2018-07-03 Clifford Chung Chen Shaw Cabled flexible wall dam
US20190136651A1 (en) * 2017-11-08 2019-05-09 Jose Guerrero, JR. Fluid containment structure and system
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