Patent ID: 6988848

Claim:
A drip berm mountable onto a drip mat having circumferential edges extending contiguously around the circumference thereof, the drip berm comprising: an inner berm member mountable contiguously around said circumferential edges, an outer berm member mountable along an inner edge thereof contiguously around an outer perimeter of said inner berm member, said inner berm member including at least one clamp member for mounting onto the circumferential edges of the drip mat, said at least one clamp member having a pair of jaws for mounting inwardly of said circumferential edges and pivotable about a clam-shell hinge so as to, in a closed position, engage and clamp said circumferential edges between said pair of jaws, and so ass to, in an open position, release said circumferential edges from between said pair of jaws, a rigid flange mounted to each jaw of said pair of jaws so as to extend in oppositely disposed relation to said each jaw, said hinge disposed so as to provide a fulcrum between said each jaw and a corresponding said flange, each said flange having a first locking means disposed on said outer perimeter, said inner edge of said outer berm member having a second locking means thereon for interlocking mating with said first locking means, said first locking means on each said flange cooperating with each other when said pair of jaws are in said closed position so as to releasably interlock with said second locking means and when said cooperating first locking means so releasably interlocked with said second locking means said pair of jaws locked in said closed position.