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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 1987
Filed:
Jun. 10, 1985
Richard W Helmke, Stafford, VA (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A folding tactical bridge module and bridging system and method of deploy and retrieval. Each module is made up of three longitudinally collapsible units interconnected and folded in a side-by-side arrangement to be carried by a bridge transporter vehicle. Each unit includes an arched roadway portion made up of two arcuate segments with a hinge at the centerline and a truss hingedly connected at each longitudinal edge. Tensile links tie the edges of the arched roadway together. The module folds in two ways with the tie links nested between the vertically collapsed first folded roadway segments which in turn are nested between a pair of vertical trusses. The three units of each module are in turn folded a second time into a side-by-side compact relation upon a transporter deploying vehicle. The bridge may be expanded and emplaced by the bridge transporter vehicle and its two-man crew using self-contained extendable-retractable interconnectable traversing beams associated with each of its three units.