Road structure – process – or apparatus – Process – Handling or treating preformed modular unit
Patent
1975-06-16
1976-12-28
Byers, Jr., Nile C.
Road structure, process, or apparatus
Process
Handling or treating preformed modular unit
404 35, 14 27, E01C 500
Patent
active
039998797
ABSTRACT:
An inflatable roadway includes elongate flexible upper and lower panels sred and sealed together about their peripheries. The roadway is stored and transported in a laterally rolled configuration and when it is placed on the near side of an area of unfirm terrain, it is immediately ready for deployment. Coupling a source of pressurized gas to an appropriately disposed fitting on the roadway inflates at least one longitudinal envelope to cause an unrolling of the roadway across the unfirm area. A multitude of strands extending between the upper and lower panels ensures that the exposed surface of the upper panel maintains an essentially flat configuration. Personnel and vehicles can safely traverse a body of water, thin ice, swamp or similar unfirm areas, safely. An air bearing cargo transportor also can traverse the unfirm terrain since the strands ensure that a smooth upper exposed surface is presented for pneumatic cooperation with the air bearing.
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Berkeley, Jr. Joseph B.
Stachiw Jerry D.
Byers Jr. Nile C.
Johnston Ervin F.
Keough Thomas Glenn
Sciascia Richard S.
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
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