Patent ID: 9556574
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: E02B

Claim:
1. A water inflatable module suitable for use as a barrier or incorporation into a barrier, the module comprising: flexible walls configured to contain water within an interior of the module, said module having a front, a rear, a length parallel to the front, a width perpendicular to the front, and a substantially uniform cross-section along its length, the cross section being wider at a base of the module than at a top of the module; a plurality of substantially horizontal and substantially vertical partition walls dividing said interior into a plurality of adjacent, water-tight cells shaped as rectangular parallelepipeds, front and rear partition walls of each cell being substantially parallel to the front of the shell, said cells being arranged in a plurality of vertically stacked layers that are offset from each other such that none of the front and rear partition walls aligns with a front or rear partition wall in a vertically adjacent layer; a water inlet; and a plurality of passages between the cells configured to allow filling of all of the cells with water from the water inlet.