Anti-leak projectile barrier and method
US7393572B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 25, 2006 |
| Grant date | Jul 1, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 16, 2026 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T428/31504
- WIPO fieldTransport
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Barrier structure placeable as a projectile-disabling, anti-liquid-leakage protective shield for the outside surface of a container designed to hold liquid of a certain nature including (a) a first-type (innermost) layer formed as an expanse of high-elastomeric material which is substantially fully self-healing via elastomeric behavior with regard to a piercing projectile wound, (b) a second-type (intermediate) layer disposed adjacent one side of the first-type layer as an expanse including a body of substantially the same high-elastomeric material in which there is contained a distribution of liquid-imbiber beads which react, and expand three-dimensionally in relation, to contact with liquid of the mentioned certain nature, and (c) a third-type (outermost) layer disposed adjacent the second-type layer, and formed as an expanse of substantially the same high-elastomeric material employed in the first- and second-type layers. In one embodiment of the invention, these layers are dimensioned whereby the first- and third-type layers each possesses a thickness substantially twice that of the second-type layer, and in a second invention embodiment, no matter the thickness of the innermos…
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