Patent ID: 6089784
Filing Date: 2000-07-18
Classification: E01C,Y10T

Abstract:
A generally planar ground-reinforcement panel, for use in an articulated sequence or array of such panels, the boundaries of said panel including at least one pair of parallel rectilinear edges, said pair of edges being provided with, respectively, a number of male interlock members located on one of the edges and projecting therefrom in the plane of the panel, and a corresponding number of female interlock members located on the other edge and recessed therein, the arrangement being such that (a) the male member(s) on said one edge of the panel may be forcibly but detachably engaged in a direction vertical to the plane of the panel with corresponding female member(s) in an edge of another such next-adjacent panel but cannot be disengaged therefrom in the horizontal plane of the panels, and that (b) the male and female members are so constructed that when interengaged the male and female members are capable of limited rotation with respect to each other so that the panel is interlocked hingedly with a similar next-adjacent panel.