Abstract:
A water containment structure that includes at least one flexible sleeve formed from a strong flexible material that will resist puncturing and is formed to contain at least one bladder formed to retain water, and which said sleeve includes center notches formed in the opposite sleeve ends that separate like closed end parallel fingers, which bladder fills the sleeve to the sleeve finger ends so that the bladder ends fit into and against the finger ends, and at least one water fill and drain tube fitted through said sleeve intro said bladder to pass, respectively, water into, and drain water from which bladder, and said bladder includes an air drain to provide for evacuating air from the sleeve during bladder filling. Which sleeve finger ends can be fastened together around a support, and which sleeve finger ends and notches can be secured to one another for connecting a number of sleeves, end to end, into a water containing structure.

Description:
[0001]    This application is a Continuation in Part application of application Ser. No. 14/262,758, for a “WATER CONTAINMENT STRUCTURE WITH FINGER ENDS” filed Apr. 27, 2014, that is abandoned with the entry of this Continuation in Part application. 
     
    
     BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     Field of the Invention 
       [0002]    This invention relates to temporary structures for filling with water for damming water courses, controlling and directing water flow, for damming between walls and support structures, and providing for end to end connection of structures to extend across an area to be dammed, and the like, and includes sleeves for containing water containing bladders, where the damming structure is inexpensive to construct, erect, and dismantle. 
       PRIOR ART 
       [0003]    A need for easily installable and versatile water containment structure, and the like, particularly structures that are easily installed by filling them with water, that are relatively inexpensive, non-permanent, reusable and are durable, have been recognized by the inventor who has been awarded a number of U.S. patents for forming and joining water structures together, forming hydraulic water containment structures. Such water containment structures have been found to be very useful for safely and reliably containing water, for directing and controlling water, are also useful for controlling hazardous waste, oil or chemical spills, and the like. Further, such water containment structures are also useful, for example, for temporary damming operations, such as may be involved in agricultural water storage, construction, for de-watering work sites and fields, to protect buildings against flooding, and the like, and are even appropriate for use as permanent or long term water containment structures. 
         [0004]    Heretofore it has been recognized that fluid filled flexible water containment structures and barriers can, if formed to resist movement, be used for retention and storage of water, control of water flow and as barriers against wave action, and a number of configurations of dams and barriers have been arranged as both semi-permanent and temporary structures. Such earlier patents, however, do not show a combination of a flexible sleeve that is configured with like finger ends, where the sleeves can be fitted and maintained together to form a continuous water containment structure, or where the finger ends can be fitted across a door way, or against a wall end, to span that door way or wall. In practice, with the filling of a bladder or bladders within the sleeve or sleeves, a secure water containment structure is formed. 
         [0005]    Where earlier water containment sleeve and bladder structures have been arranged across an area to be dammed or de-watered, such have generally included pairs of sleeves with bladders that are braced against a pier structure, or have employed an outer sleeve to discourage the individual interior sleeves and filled bladders from rolling apart responsive to the weight of water or wave action that have been directed against the water containment structure, or have utilized other arrangements for keeping the sleeves with water filled bladders from moving. Unique to the invention, the sleeve fingers can be joined together, as by lacing them together along common edges, to discourage sleeve movement, can be joined around a fixed pole, or the like. 
         [0006]    Summarizing, before the invention, no prior art water containment structure has provided a barrier arrangement or arrangements of barriers with the like sleeve ends have fingers to function, as set out above, to provide a versatile water containment structure that will meet a variety of needs as the invention can be used for. 
       SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
       [0007]    It is a principal object of the present invention to provide a water containment structure that includes at least one flexible sleeve for containing a bladder or bladders for filling with water, where each bladder includes a filling arrangement and an air drain, and where the sleeve or sleeves have like finger ends separated by a center U shaped notch that the bladder or bladder ends fit into, and each said sleeve end includes an air vent for venting air during filling of the bladder or bladders with water, and the sleeve ends notches are arranged to be fitted together, alongside one another on opposite sides of the edge of a doorway or wall, to provide, when the bladder or bladders are filled with water, a barrier to contain, or block, a volume of water, and which sleeve notched ends, when fitted together where the opposing sides of each notch are in contact and can be maintained together to form a continuous barrier across an area to be de-watered, or protected from flood waters. 
         [0008]    Another object of the present invention is to provide sleeve ends, from adjacent to the sleeve notches to finger ends, with flat parallel top and bottom surfaces, or can form each sleeve finger to have a taper in the top from adjacent to, or forward from, the notch, to the finger end to facilitate positioning of the sleeve finger ends, containing the bladder ends, across a door way or wall, and for, with blunt sleeve finger ends fitted together, provide approximately a uniform height of the water containment structure. across the notches. 
         [0009]    Another object of the present invention is to provide sleeves having ends formed as fingers with a notch therebetween, where the finger ends can be fitted around or across a fixed structure such as a door way, wall, post, or the like, and provides for joining the sleeve fingers around such post, as by lacing the fingers ends through spaced holes formed along the notch and fingers edges, to fix the sleeve ends in place, whereafter, the bladder or bladders in the sleeve are filled with water to provide a barrier to water. 
         [0010]    Still another object of the present invention is to provide for; conveniently filling each bladder with water to erect the structure as a water barrier; and provides for venting air from the bladder or bladders during filling; and for conveniently draining which bladder or bladders to deflate the barrier when it is no longer needed. 
         [0011]    Still another object of the present invention is to provide a portable water containment structure that is easily transported and erected at a site to protect a building against flooding, prohibit flooding of an area, or for de-watering a flooded area, that is easily deflated and removed after the water danger has subsided. 
         [0012]    Principal features of the invention include at least one sleeve that is formed from a strong, woven polypropylene material, such as GeoTex®, or like material, to provide a sleeve that is puncture resistant and has a tear strength that is sufficient to maintaining the forces exerted thereon when functioning as a water containment structure, and the sleeve is to receive at least one bladder that is preferably formed from a lightweight polyethylene material to have a capability to be filled with water to its capacity without rupturing. Which sleeve includes a filing tube of a length to rest on the bladder or bladders bottom, allowing the filling bladder or bladders contained within the sleeve with water, and which sleeve includes like notched sections in each end, and which end fingers are parallel and extend rearwardly from each notch such that the notch and finger form a U shape. The parallel fingers each receive a bladder end fitted therein to receive water, forming a water containment structure, and each sleeve finger end includes a vent port for venting air from the finger ends during bladder filling. In practice, the sleeve notched ends can each be fitted across opposite sides of a pair of wall ends or sides of a door opening, straddling that wall end or door way. Or which finger ends can be connected around a post. So arranged, the sleeve bladder or bladders, when filled with water, provide a water containing structure between the wall ends or across the doorway, or around a post, to prohibit waters from passing there across, and which sleeve sends of two sleeve can be connected end to end, as by laces, or the like, fitted through grommets formed at spaced intervals around the sleeve fingers edges and across the sleeve end notches, for joining end to end, forming a wall of connected sleeves forming a water containment structure. 
         [0013]    The sleeve fingers top surface may be sloped relative to the finger bottom surface, from its junction with the end of the notch to the finger ends, to facilitate its fitting of the fingers along opposite sides of a doorway or wall sides, or the fingers may not be sloped within the scope of this disclosure. Each sleeve finger end configuration is blunt and includes an air vent formed therein, and the finger ends are essentially at right angles to the finger bottom surfaces, allowing the sleeve to be positioned together, end to end, at their notches for forming the continuous water containment structure, where the height of the joined sleeves, at their junction, will be essentially the same height as that of the filled sleeves. Additionally, the fingers ends can be joined around a pier or post and secured together, as by lacing, with the pier or post therebetween, providing an anchor for holding the sleeves in place. 
         [0014]    In practice a strong flexible sleeve formed from GeoTex®, a material manufactured by Propex Operating Company, LLC, and bladder or bladders are formed from a lightweight polyethylene plastic, or the like, has been selected to provide a bladder that, when filled with water, is strong enough to resist punctures and the bladder ends, that fit into the sleeve finger ends, with each bladder or bladders preferably having a wall thickness of from (5) to (12) millimeters and is arranged for installation in the fabric sleeve of the invention prior to the bladder or bladders being filled with water. Though, it should be understood, the invention is not limited to any particular sleeve or bladder manufacture or thickness; can utilize sleeves and/or bladders of greater or lesser wall thickness; and the sleeve notch ends can be connected by lacing a lace cable through grommets formed in holes formed at spaced intervals along the junction of the sleeve top and bottom sections at the sleeve ends, or by other connection arrangement, for maintaining the sleeves fingers together, within the scope of this disclosure. 
     
    
     
       DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         [0015]    In the drawings which illustrate that which is presently regarded as the best mode for carrying out the invention: 
           [0016]      FIG. 1  is a top plan view of a water containment structure of the invention that is shown as a sleeve with end center notches with like finger ends extending parallel to one another from the notch ends, forming like fingers that can be fitted across a wall or doorway, and showing the sleeve as containing a bladder consisting of a pair of closed tubes whose ends are fitted into the sleeve finger ends and showing, in broken lines each bladder tube, as including a fill tube that is of a length to rest on the bottom of a water filled bladder that extends out of the bladder tube top and sleeve and connects though a nozzle to a water source for filling, and which nozzle, when disconnected from the water source, can be used to pass water out from the bladder, filling and draining water therefrom, and shows air drains that extend out from the top or each bladder tube, and shows the sleeve fingers ends as each including an air vent; 
           [0017]      FIG. 2  is an end view of the sleeve and with finger ends, less the wall or doorway, showing the sleeve as having a seam that extends around the sleeve mid-section, showing the seam formed from joined upper and lower sections, and showing the sleeve as containing bladder tubes that extend into the sleeve finger ends with each sleeve finger shown as including an air vent in the end thereof; 
           [0018]      FIG. 3  is a side elevation view of the sleeve of  FIG. 2 , showing the slope of one of the sleeve parallel fingers as having an angle C slope, from the horizontal, with, it should be understood, the other sleeve fingers are identical thereto, and showing, in broken lines, the end of the sleeve notch; 
           [0019]      FIG. 4  is an end perspective view of the sleeve showing the sleeve as formed from top and bottom sections of material that are secured together, as by lacing the sections together along their edges, showing the bladder tubes in broken lines, and, showing the bladder tubes in broken lines, as filled with water through the fill tubes, one in each bladder tube, with the fill ends thereof shown in solid lines as a nozzle that extends out from the sleeve, and showing bladders air drains adjacent to where the fill tube exits the sleeve, and showing, each of the sleeve fingers tubes ends as including an air vent, as are shown also in  FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 ; 
           [0020]      FIG. 4A  is an enlarged end sectional perspective view taken from a notched end of the sleeve that shows aligned spaced eyelets as having metal rings fitted therein, forming grommets, that are arranged at spaced intervals along the edge of each sleeve fingers and notch, and shows a lace threaded through the spaced eyelets, for lacing the finger ends together, forming a water containing structure like that shown in  FIGS. 6 and 8 ; 
           [0021]      FIG. 5  is a view like that of  FIG. 4  only showing the sleeve notches as positioned between vertical posts, and the bladder tubes, shown in broken lines, as having been filled with water, as illustrating by arrows A, and illustrating, with arrows B, the venting of air from the bladder tubes through air drains during filling of each of the pair of bladder tubes; 
           [0022]      FIG. 6  shows sleeves like those of  FIGS. 1 through 5 , with the sleeves fingers shown as having blunt ends, and are connected, end to end at their notches, with the adjacent sleeve fingers along common edges, forming a continuous water containment structure; 
           [0023]      FIG. 7  shows an end sectional view taken along the line  7 - 7  of  FIG. 6  showing the water containment structure of  FIG. 6  as holding back a weight of water on one side, and shows an adjacent section of the water containment structure of  FIG. 6 ; and 
           [0024]      FIG. 8  shows a damming structure like that of  FIG. 7 , except the water containment structure is shown formed into an arc. 
       
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION 
       [0025]    Temporary water structures that are erected at a location to be de-watered, to protect an area or structure from anticipated flooding, and are in common use. Such temporary water structures have included flexible sleeves containing a bladder or a pair of bladders, shown as tubes, for positioning at a site to be dammed, with the bladder tubes then filled with water to erect the water containment structure. Heretofore, however, such water containment structures have lacked versatility in that none have provided convenient arrangements for joining sleeves together in an end to end relationship. Further, earlier temporary water structures have needed to included at least an arrangement of two bladders in a single sleeve, and, have often required end anchors, for anchoring the water structure ends, to anchor the water structure to provide a dam that would resist side ways movement, or rolling, from water forces exerted onto one side of the sleeve, or have required that a pair of sleeves with tubes or bladders in each that have then been contained in an outer sleeve to resist rolling movement where lateral forces were exerted against the structure. Whereas, the invention provides a sleeve  11  with finger ends  12  extending from ends of a U shaped center notch  13 , forming parallel fingers  12 , and, as appropriate for its use the sleeve  11  fingers  12  can be sloped to fit and be conveniently maintained across a door way or wall end, and provides for joining the sleeve fingers  13  ends together around a post, or the like, for anchoring the sleeve  11  ends  13  thereto. Also, a plurality of sleeves  11  each having blunt ends, that are approximately the height of the sleeve body, and can be joined end to end by fitting sleeve fingers  12  together at the sleeve notch  13  to form a water containment structure  10  that will resist movement. 
         [0026]      FIG. 1  shows a top plan view of the water containment structure  10  with sleeve  11  finger ends  12  of the invention. Shown therein, the water containment structure  10  includes the sleeve  11  having parallel fingers,  12  with a notch  13  there between, formed on opposite sleeve  11  ends. The sleeve  11  is shown as including a bladder, that is shown herein as a pair of individual tubes  14   a  and  14   a , that are hereinafter referred to as bladder tubes  14   a  and  14   b , with bladder tube ends  19   a  and  19   b , that are preferably a pair of tubes that each have closed tube  19   a  and  19   b  ends. Which bladder tubes  14   a  and  14   b  extend the length of the sleeve, in parallel relationship, with their ends  19   a  and  19   b  fitted into, the finger ends  12  of sleeve  11 . Each bladder tube  14   a  and  14   b  includes a fill tube  15   a  and  15   b , that has a nozzle end  16   a  and  16   b  that extends out of the sleeve for filling the individual bladders with water and also provides for draining water from the bladder tubes  14   a  and  14   b  and bladder tube ends  19   a  and  19   b , and each bladder tube  14   a  and  14   b  includes an air drain  17   a  and  17   b  that extends from the top of each bladder tube  14   a  and  14   b , and is preferably adjacent to where the filling tube  15   a  and  15   b  and nozzle ends  16   a  and  16   b  pass through the sleeve  11  and into the bladder tubes  14   a  and  14   b , which air drain is preferably functions as a one-way valve, such as a flap valve, arranged to let air out of the bladder tubes  14   a  and  14   b  during filling and will close when the water level in the bladder tubes  14   a  and  14   b  reaches the air drain  17   a  and  17   b.    
         [0027]    Where the pair of bladder tubes  14   a  and  14   b  is shown herein as preferred, it should be understood that a single bladder, formed to fit within the sleeve  11  with ends therein fitted into the sleeve fingers  12 , that includes a single fill tube  15   a  and  15   b  with nozzle end  16   a  and  16   b  and includes air drains  17   a  and  17   b , could be used in the invention, within the scope of this disclosure. Additionally, air vents  18  are provided in the end of each sleeve finger  12  to facilitate venting air from the sleeve ahead of the bladder tubes  14   a  and  14   b  when the bladder tubes  14   a  and  14   b  are being filled with water through the fill tubes  15   a  and  15   b . In practice, air vents  18  allow the bladder tubes  14   a  and  14   b  ends to fully fill the sleeve  11  and sleeve fingers  12  as the bladder tubes  14   a  and  14   b  are being filled with water. 
         [0028]      FIG. 1  shows the water containment structure sleeve  11  fingers  12  fitted across an end of a structure  20 , with the sleeve notch  13  in engagement with the structure end  20 . This arrangement of the water containment structure  10  illustrates it&#39;s use to protect an area across the structure ends  20  that can be a door way, an area behind two walls, or the like. To facilitate fitting which sleeve  11  fingers  12  across a door way or between wall ends, as shown in  FIGS. 2 and 3 , the fingers  12  can be slopped at like slants from adjacent to or spaced a short distance towards the fingers  12  ends, from the sleeve notch  13 , to each finger  12  end. Which slope is shown as angle C in  FIG. 3 , and, it should be understood, such slope can vary depending upon the use as the damming structure  10  is applied to. In practice, for fitting the sleeve  11  fingers  12  across a doorway or wall end, the slope is selected such that finger  12  fit conveniently around the doorway or wall end. In practice, the water containment structure  10  fingers  12  can be sloped at angle C that from essentially (0) zero to (90) degrees, within the scope of this disclosure. Such water containment structure  10  finger  12  slant facilitates the fitting of the fingers across the door way or wall end to the notch  13  such that the water containment structure  10  fingers  12  extend along the opposite sides of the doorway or wall ends  20 , and to where the bladder  14   a  and  14   b  ends  19   a  and  19   b  will fit into the finger ends  12 , with the air vents  18  in the water containment structure  10  finger ends providing for exhausting air from the space in-between which bladder  14   a  and  14   b  ends  19   a  and  19   b  outer surface and fingers ends  12 . 
         [0029]    Also shown in  FIGS. 2 and 3 , the sleeve  11  is preferably formed from a pair of like sections of sleeve material that, in practice, is preferably a strong, woven polypropylene geotextile type material that provides strength and is puncture resistance, and a GeoTex® flexible fabric material manufactured by Porpex Operating Company, LLC that is resistive to tearing even when it is pulled over rough terrain, has been used as the water containment structure  10 . Though, it should be understood, other materials may be so utilized within the scope of this disclosure. In practice, the sections of material are formed as upper and lower sections that are laid out over one another and are secured together, along their common edges  11   a , as shown in  FIGS. 4 and 5 , as by sewing, riveting, welding, or by other appropriate method, and spaced holes  25  are shown formed at the common edges  11   a  of the sleeve  12 , as shown also in  FIG. 4A . Which holes are preferably strengthened against tearing by fitted each with a metal ring, or the like, forming a grommet, and a rope, cable, or lace  25   a , for example, can be fitted through a first hole  25  and is laced through the adjacent aligned holes  25  for releasably joining the finger  12  ends together, as illustrated in  FIGS. 6 and 8 , and as discussed below. The bladder tubes  14   a  and  14   b  with ends  19   a  and  19   b , are preferably formed from of a lightweight polyethylene material, or like material, and are arranged in the sleeve  11  prior to closure of the sections of material forming the sleeve  11  having a common edge  11   a . In practice, a polyethylene material that has a thickness of from five (5) to twelve (12) millimeters has been used as the bladders  14   a  and  14   b  with ends  19   a  and  19   b . Which bladders thickness is selected in consideration of the anticipated uses of the water containment structure  10 . 
         [0030]    During the formation of the sleeve  11  of the water containment structure  10 , as shown in  FIG. 4 , the bladder fill tubes  15   a  and  15   b  are preferably installed in the bladder tubes  14   a  and  14   b  and the fill tubes nozzle ends  16   a  and  16   b  are passed through the sleeve  11 , and the bladder air drains  17   a  and  17   b  are fitted into the bladder tubes  14   a  and  14   b  top surface, preferably adjacent to where the fill tubes nozzle ends  16   a  and  16   b  pass through the sleeve  11 , the completing the manufacture of the water containment structure  10 , that can be moved to a site and filled with water. 
         [0031]      FIG. 4  shows spaced holes  25  that, preferably, have each been fitted with a reinforcing ring, forming a grommet, have been formed through the connected edges  11   a  of the sleeve  11  top and bottom sections of material, and  FIG. 5  shows the sleeve  11  ends  12  end edges  11   a  as having been joined together, with a lace  25   a  that is shown as having been laced through holes  25  on opposing sides of the ends  12  of the sleeve  11 , connecting the finger  12  ends of sleeves around a pole  30 . Which holes  25  and lace  25   a , are shown in  FIGS. 6 and 8 , for connecting the fingers  12  water containment structure  10  sleeve  11  together in end to end relationship. 
         [0032]    Shown in  FIG. 5 , opposite finger ends  12  of the sleeve  11  are positioned around poles  30 , and the bladders  14   a  and  14   b  are shown as having been filled with water to there ends  19   a  and  19   b , form an erected water containment structure  10  that is supported between which poles  30 . To further anchor the water containment structure of  FIG. 5 . As shown, the ends of fingers  12  of each sleeve  11  end can be wrapped around each pole  30  such that and the sleeve  11  ends  13  forward edges  11   a  come together such that the spaced holes  25  align and can receive the lace  25   a  laced through the spaced holes  25 , locking the sleeve ends together, 
         [0033]      FIG. 6  shows a linking, end to end, of a plurality of sleeves  11  to form a water containment structure  10  that extends across an area to be dammed, as for de-watering, or the like. Which arrangement of sleeves  11  involves fitting a sleeve  11  finger end  12  of a first sleeve into a notch  13  of a next or second sleeve  11  finger end such that the fingers  12  of the first and second sleeves  11 , and continuing sleeve ends attachment to form the water containment structure, as shown in  FIG. 6 . For connecting the sleeve  11  ends  12  together, the ends are fitted side by side and their edges  11   a  are over lapped so as to align the individual spaced holes  25 , as illustrated in  FIGS. 4A and 5 , of the first sleeve and second sleeves to receive a lace  25   a  that is laced through each pair of aligned holes  25 , across and along abutting first and second sleeve finger ends, along the second finger notch and along the abutting first and second sleeve finger ends. Which lace ends are secured, as by knotting the ends thereof, to prohibit back passage through the holes  25 , securing the coupling of the first and second sleeves  11  ends together. Which connections of sleeves  11  together are continued to form a desire length of water containment structure. Followed by filling the individual bladder tubes  14   a  and  14   b  with water that is passed through fill tubes  15   a  and  15   b  and nozzles  16   a  and  16   b , forming water containment structure  10 , as shown in the sectional view of  FIG. 7 . Which sectional view of  FIG. 7  shows a cross sectional view of a first sleeve  11  with a pair of bladder tubes  14   a  and  14   b  therein, and shows the outer surface of an adjacent sleeve  11  that curves away from the first as having also been filled with water, forming the water containment structure  10  that, as shown, is holding back a level of water  30 , which sleeves  11  and fingers  12  of the first and second water containment structure, it should be understood, have a same height to provide, when joined end to end, a constant height of water containment structure  10 . 
         [0034]      FIG. 8  also shows a water containment structure  10  formed from joined first and second sleeves  11  fitted together, end to end, like the water containment structure  10  of  FIG. 6 , showing the first and second sleeve finger ends  12  and notches  13  as connected together, only, showing the water containment structure of  FIG. 8  arranged in an arc and maintained between wall ends  20 , like the single sleeve  11  arrangement, shown in  FIG. 1 . Which water containment structure  10  arrangements of  FIGS. 1, 6 and 8 , illustrate the variety of applications the water containment structures  10 , that each include the sleeve  11  with fingers  12  and notch  13  ends, can be used for to form a long water containment structure maintained between anchored ends. In forming which water containment structures  10  shown in  FIGS. 6 and 8 , the slope of the fingers  12  top surface is from approximately the notch  13  to the finger  12  end of each finger, and is such that, when the fingers are positioned side by side, will provide a water containment structure whose profile is essentially uniform along its length, as shown in  FIGS. 6 and 8 . 
         [0035]    While not shown, it should be understood that the sections of material forming sleeve  11  could be secured together along their junctions as with a zipper, or like closure, to allow access to the bladder tubes  14   a  and  14   a , and that, within the scope of this disclosure, and that a single bladder or closed tube can be formed to have ends arranged to fit into the sleeve fingers  12 , extending between the opposite sleeve fingers ends. 
         [0036]    The water containment structures  10 , as illustrated in  FIGS. 1 and 5 through 8 , represent structures that will, when erected, hold back a body of, or flow of, water. In holding back such body of water, as when the wind passes over such body of water, wave actions may be created that tend to move former water containment structures. Where earlier temporary water containment structures have met this problem by containing two or three water filled vessels within an outer sleeve to discourage a wave action from causing rolling of the water containment structure, and other arrangement have utilized anchors, or the like. Additional to the connection of the the sleeve finger ends across or around a fixed structure, as illustrated in  FIGS. 1 and 5 , the connected sleeve ends themselves, as shown in  FIG. 6 , provides, as shown in  FIGS. 6 and 8 , sleeve fingers  12  that extend away from the faces of the water containment structure that function outriggers, that block rolling of the water containment structure  10  do to wind action, thereby discouraging the water containment structure  10  from moving or rolling even when the water containment structure  10  holds back a level of water that is being subjected to wind forces. 
         [0037]    The invention is a use of a sleeve or sleeves formed of a strong, puncture resistive and durable material such as GeoTex® manufactures by Propex Operating Company, LLC, has been used in practice, through, it should be understood another like material could be so used within the scope of this disclosure. The sleeve or sleeves are to receive a bladder or a pair of bladder tubes whose ends have been closed to be filled with water that are preferably formed from a material, such as a flexible polyethylene plastic, that is strong enough to resist punctures and has a range of wall thicknesses of five (5) to twelve (12) millimeters, through, it should be understood bladders or tubes having greater or less thickness could be used within the scope of this invention depending upon the sleeve size, and it should, therefore, be understood, the invention is not limited to any particular sleeve material or bladder or bladder tube material or to a particular wall thickness of bladder or tube forming material and that other appropriate sleeve materials bladder or bladder tubes can be used within the scope of this disclosure. 
         [0038]    Although preferred embodiments of the invention have been shown and described herein, it should be understood that the present disclosure is made by way of example only and that variations are possible, within the scope of this disclosure, without departing from the subject matter coming within the scope of the following claims and reasonable equivalency thereof, which claims I regard as my invention.