Patent ID: 6672235
Filing Date: 2004-01-06
Classification: B63B,B63G

Abstract:
An apparatus for preventing cargo spills comprising:a non-permeable, flexible bladder including a top surface, a side surface, a bottom surface and an aperture in the top surface accessible from a deck of the ship, and a multilayered structure mounted on or near a hull-deck interface of the ship and interposed between a portion of an interior surface of a hull of the ship and a portion of the side surface of the bladder and/or a portion of the bottom surface of the bladder, where the structure includes a first ballistic cloth or fabric layer, a flexible skeleton comprising a plurality of moveable elements, an oxygen scavenger layer and a second ballistic cloth or fabric layer, where the bladder is designed to contain a cargo, is mounted within an interior of the ship, and is supported by the multilayered structure, where the structure is designed to act as a ballistic baffler, to deform in response to a hull breach or penetration and to transmit the deformation to the bladder while protecting the bladder against rupture.