Flood bag

摘要

An apparatus, system, and method for creating a flood barrier by use of an open-top fabric bag device or series of connected bag devices that can be filled with materials to create the barrier. Each bag has a bottom panel, a front panel, a back panel, a four-sided neck, an opening in the neck, and lifting loops at the neck for lifting the bag. The bottom panel may contain a closable aperture formed by a front bottom panel overlapping a back bottom panel underneath the back bottom panel and secured by a fastening device to releasably secure the aperture. When the bag is full of materials and is lifted at the neck loops, the aperture opens and the contents are released and remain in place as the bag is lifted and removed and is available for re-use.

主权项

1. An apparatus for restraining flood water, comprising:
a bag device, wherein the bag device has:
a bottom panel, wherein the bottom panel comprises:
a front bottom panel;a back bottom panel; anda closable aperture at a junction of the front bottom panel and the back bottom panel through which the contents of the bag device may be released when the bag device is lifted at one or more lifting loops, wherein the closable aperture is covered by overlapping the front bottom panel underneath the back bottom panel;a first side panel substantially parallel to a second side panel, the first and second side panels being connected to the bottom panel;a front panel;a back panel;an elongated neck comprised of respective upper portions of the first and second side panels, the front panel, and the back panel, wherein the elongated neck forms an opening at a top of the bag device;wherein at least one of the one or more lifting loops is connected to at least one corner of the elongated neck; andformable toes at the junction of the bottom panel with each of the front and back panels, the formable toes comprising a curved outer-surface extending outward from the bag device.