Flood protection for underground air vents

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10106945
APP PUB NO 20180112370A1
SERIAL NO

15789537

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Apparatus for allowing ventilation for underground tunnels through a ventilation shaft opening to atmosphere yet preventing underground flooding from surface waters pouring through the grate comprises an assembly that fits within the ventilation shaft and includes one or more panels mounted on a pivot axis and rotatable upwardly by human action raising the panel past a center point of the pivot axis to an upright inwardly leaning home position that allows ventilation as usual but by manual push or pull of the panels past the center point of the pivot axis lets the panels rotationally fall under gravitational impetus to a lower sealing position closing a passage between the ventilation shaft and atmosphere to prevent water from entering the underground tunnels.

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FLOODBREAK L L C5909 W LOOP SOUTH FREEWAY SUITE 200 BELLAIRE TX 77401

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Waters,, Jr Louis A Houston, US 19 108

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