Deploying a chemically-inflatable bag with an unfurling action

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8152418
APP PUB NO 20110011481A1
SERIAL NO

12504447

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Embodiments provide an apparatus and methods for providing a nonlabor-intensive process for preventing backfill entering, or environmental factors eroding, a cavity formed in the ground. Preventing cavity degradation involves constructing a chemically-inflatable bag that separates two or more chemical reactants by creases and cylindrical coils formed in the chemically-inflatable bag. The creases typically act as watertight releasable seals that separate the chemical reactants while the cylindrical coils resist unintentional compromise of the releasable seals. However, the cylindrical coils are designed to give way upon the user applying an unfurling action on the chemically-inflatable bag; thus, furnishing a passageway for the chemical reactants to intermix and initiate a chemical reaction. The chemical reaction produces carbon dioxide as a by-product, which expands the chemically-inflatable bag from a collapsed condition to an inflated condition. In the inflated condition, the chemically-inflatable bag fills and protects the integrity of the formed cavity.

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STEMLOCK INCORPORATED1021 B N E JIB COURT LEE'S SUMMIT MO 64064

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Jenkins, Sanford S Lee's Summit, US 4 13
Jenkins, Thomas S Lee's Summit, US 9 51

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