Patent ID: 8667741

Claim:
A kit for assembling a protective building structure, wherein said building structure is resistant to and protects occupants from overhead ordinance detonations, comprising: at least one support frame; a plurality of individual rectangular prismatic panel members, each having one end through which fill material may be placed and the panel member filled with such fill material, each of said panel members pivotably couplable to said at least one support frame, and pivotable from a vertical position where said fill material may be inserted in said panel member, to a horizontal position overlying said support frame; a plurality of elongate stanchion members, adapted, when positioned in a vertical position, at opposite ends of said support frame, to support said support frame and said panel members thereon; a plurality of coupling members, coupling said support frame to a respective of said stanchion members, said coupling members variably positionable along a respective stanchion member, further permitting fixed location of said support frame at a desired vertical height along a respective stanchion member; and raising means, for mechanically raising said support frame vertically while coupled to said stanchion members to a desired vertical height along said stanchion members.