Static structures (e.g. – buildings) – Article or material supported cover – With article or ground penetrating retainer
Patent
1995-11-17
1997-10-21
Wood, Wynn E.
Static structures (e.g., buildings)
Article or material supported cover
With article or ground penetrating retainer
521696, 52 3, 135115, 135122, E04D 134
Patent
active
056783582
ABSTRACT:
A portable soldier fighting cover having a pair of adjacent relatively rigid frames attached to an underlying waterproof flexible anchorage sheet, and defining a structure resistant to bending for spanning a military trench or foxhole, and further having a load bearing sheet attached to and overlying each frame for transmitting loads to the frame resulting from the weight of protective material such as sandbags or timber placed on the cover, and also from ballistic fragments and blast overpressure from near misses, and further having a pair of elongated straps attached to each frame and extending beyond the ends of the frames for securement to the ground for transmitting loads from the frame to the ground and for supporting the cover in the event of collapse of the foxhole side walls. Curtain sheets can be attached to the straps for service as revetments.
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Horton-Richardson Yvonne
McLellan Joseph F.
Wood Wynn E.
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