Abstract:
Methods of transporting a plurality of freight containers are disclosed, including stacking one or more containers on a transportation vehicle, where one or more of the stacked containers is a vertically collapsible container in a collapsed position, where at least one of the vertically collapsible containers includes: a frame assembly including: a plurality of rectangular frame members; a plurality of articulated vertical frame members disposed between the rectangular frame members; and where the articulated vertical frame members are positioned and arranged to retract to within the frame assembly; a lifting mechanism positioned and arranged to elevate the rectangular frame members from each other; and where the lifting mechanism is disposed between the uppermost rectangular frame member of the frame assembly and the lowermost rectangular frame member of the frame assembly.
Abstract:
A proppant discharge system has a container with an outlet positioned in a bottom thereof and a gate affixed adjacent the outlet so as to be movable between a first position covering the outlet to a second position opening the outlet, and a support structure having an actuator thereon. The container is removably positioned on the top surface of the support structure. The actuator is engageable with gate so as to move the gate from the first position to the second position. A conveyor underlies the container so as to receive proppant as discharged from the container through the outlet. The container can be a ten foot ISO container.
Abstract:
A proppant discharge system has a container with an outlet positioned in a bottom thereof and a gate affixed adjacent the outlet so as to be movable between a first position covering the outlet to a second position opening the outlet, and a support structure having an actuator thereon. The container is removably positioned on the top surface of the support structure. The actuator is engageable with gate so as to move the gate from the first position to the second position. A conveyor underlies the container so as to receive proppant as discharged from the container through the outlet. The container can be a ten foot ISO container.
Abstract:
An expandable-volume liner is usable with a collapsible liquid holding tank frame consisting of top and bottom rails spaced apart by vertical struts. The expandable-volume liner has pliant impervious side walls, a pliant impervious floor panel and at least one pliant impervious collapsible bag extending outwardly from the liner. Each bag is optionally extendable between its respective surrounding top and bottom rails and adjacent struts to conform the tank to the differing footprints presented by various sites and the volume of liquid necessary to accomplish the task at hand. The liners are especially suited to firefighting applications and can be used in conjunction with existing frames built for non-expandable volume liners.
Abstract:
The inventive technology may include several independent inventive aspects relating to: attachment componentry and associated supports (such as flanges) that are used to create a tight, vandal resistant seal between adjacent panels of a fluid containment apparatus, and facilitate assembly of panels to form such apparatus, and facilitate disassembly thereof; strategic location of crane hook attachment components so as to avoid unwanted misorientation of a panel suspended at such components during containment apparatus construction; attachment componentry that include angled driven pin axes or provision of automatically self-seating upon pin driving of, e.g., protrusions in proper positions in corresponding apertures, where such proper positions may coincide with proper, tight sealing relative positions of adjacent, attached panels and enhance installed apparatus stability.
Abstract:
A cargo container system, comprising: a base; at least four end frame supports attached substantially perpendicular to the base and having a substantially closed square portion with four sides and having outer extensions extending from two of the four sides and an additional support extending from the junction of the remaining two of the four sides of the substantially closed square portion, the additional support having two substantially L-shaped portions that are substantially parallel to the outer extensions and each of the at least four end frame supports having a corner support that is substantially parallel to the junction; at least three panels having two S-shaped ends, with at least one S-shaped end interposed between one of the two substantially L-Shaped portions; at least three rectangular frames removably attached to a corner support; a top; at least one door attached to one of the outer extensions.
Abstract:
A collapsible container including frame assembly, a lifting mechanism, a retractable side wall, a retractable end wall, a top member, and a bottom member is disclosed. The frame assembly includes rectangular frame members and articulated vertical frame members disposed between the rectangular frame members. At least one rectangular frame member includes a receptacle member. The articulated vertical frame members are positioned and arranged to retract within the frame assembly. The lifting mechanism is positioned and arranged to elevate the rectangular frame members from each other. The retractable side wall is positioned and arranged to retract into a receptacle member. The retractable end wall is positioned and arranged to retract into a receptacle member. The top member is disposed on an uppermost rectangular frame member. The bottom member is disposed on a lowermost rectangular frame member. A method of transporting a plurality of containers is disclosed.
Abstract:
A proppant discharge system has a container with an outlet positioned in a bottom thereof and a gate affixed adjacent the outlet so as to be movable between a first position covering outlet to a second position opening the outlet, and a support structure having an actuator thereon. The container is removably positioned on the top surface of the support structure. The actuator is engageable with gate so as to move the gate from the first position to the second position. A conveyor underlies the container so as to receive proppant as discharged from the container through the outlet. The container can be a ten foot ISO container.
Abstract:
A drain assembly for a tank or containment vessel of the type having a flexible and removable interior liner. The drain assembly comprises a drain intake in fluid communication with a wall traversing portion. The drain intake is operatively deployable in proximity to the bottom of the tank and the wall traversing portion is operatively deployable through a wall of the tank. The wall traversing portion includes a conduit portion in fluid communication with the drain intake and with a location exterior to the tank. The conduit portion includes an interior stopper plate and a threaded portion. The drain assembly includes a hammer nut threadably receivable over the threaded portion when the conduit portion is received through the wall of the tank such that tightening the hammer nut upon the threaded portion causes the hammer nut to engage the exterior of the tank wall causing the stopper plate to compress the tank liner against the interior surface of the tank wall thereby securing the drain assembly to the tank wall and helping to prevent the unintentional leakage of the contents of the tank through the tank wall.
Abstract:
A method for producing a large-capacity, pliable container, includes the steps of a) producing a tubular bellows-type sleeve, b) cutting lateral folding regions of the folded bellows-type sleeve, d) soldering adjacent cutting edges in such a way as to produce a parallelepipedic inner protective envelope having a square cross-section (1b), e) sticking fixing lugs (13) to two opposite lateral fixing faces (14a, 14b) of the folded bellows-type sleeve, (f) applying a tractive force to the fixing lugs (13) in order to deform, by stretching, the parallelepipedic inner protective envelope having a square cross-section and to obtain a parallelepipedic inner protective envelope having a rectangular cross-section (1), step g) soldering the outer lateral pockets (17a, 17b), and a step B) of assembling the inner protective envelope having a rectangular cross-section (1) with the outer envelope in order to form the large-capacity pliable container.