Portable protective flood barrier

Claim 1

A PORTABLE PROTECTIVE FLOOD BARRIER COMPRISING A SERIES OF SECTIONS WHICH ARE ARRANGED SIDE BY SIDE ON TOP OF A LEVEE, EACH SECTION CONSISTING OF A PAIR OF MEMBERS MADE FROM SHEET MATERIAL PROVIDED WITH CORRUGATIONS, FLEXIBLE MEANS FOR INTERCONNECTING THE MEMBERS OF EACH SECTION FOR RELATIVE ANGULAR MOVEMENT FROM A FOLDED POSITION WHERE THE MEMBERS ARE ARRANGED SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO AND ADJACENT EACH OTHER TO AN ERECTED POSITION WHERE ONE OF SAID MEMBERS ARE ARRANGED SUBSTANTIALLY PARALOF SAID MEMBERS IS SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTAL SO AS TO LIE ON TOP OF THE LEEVEE, THE EDGE OF SAID HORIZONTAL MEMBER CLOSEST TO SAID VERTICAL MEMBER DIVIDING SAID VERTICAL MEMBER INTO UPPER AND LOWER PORTIONS, THE VERTICAL EDGES OF EACH VERTICAL MEMBER BEING PROVIDED WITH OPPOSITELY TURNED FLANGES WHICH ARE SPACED INWARDLY FROM THE INNER SURFACE OF AND ARRANGED PARALLEL TO SAID VERTICAL MEMBER, A REMOVABLE INTERLOCKING DRIVE STRIP OF C-SHAPED CROSSSECTION CONNECTING THE FLANGES PROVIDED ON THE ADJACENT VERTICAL EDGES OF EACH ADJACENT PAIR OF VERTICAL MEMBERS SAID DRIVE STRIP COMPRISING A BASE AND A PAIR OF OPPOSITELY TURBED CONTINUOUS EDGE PORTIONS EXTENDING PARALLEL TO SAID BASE, SAID DRIVE STRIP HAVING A PREDETERMINED AMOUNT OF EDGEWISE PLAY BETWEEN THE EDGE PORTIONS OF SAID DRIVE STRIP AND SAID ADJACENT VERTICAL FLANGES TO COMPENSATE FOR MISALIGNMENT BETWEEN SAID SECTIONS DUE TO THE CONTOUR OF THE TOP OF THE LEVEE, THE HORIZONTAL EDGES OF EACH OF SAID HORIZONTAL MEMBERS WHICH ARE SUBSTANTIALLY PERPENDICULAR TO SAID VERTICAL MEMBERS BEING PROVIDED WITH OPPOSITELY TURNED FLANGES WHICH ARE SPACED UPWARDLY FROM THE UPPER SURFACE OF SAID ARRANGED PARALLEL TO SAID H ORIZONTAL MEMBER, A REMOVABLE INTERLOCKING DRIVE STRIP OF C-SHAPED CROSS-SECTION CONNECTING THE FLANGES PROVIDED ON THE ADJACENT EDGES OF EACH PAIR OF ADJACENT HORIZONTAL MEMBERS, SAIDLAST MENTIONED DRIVE STRIP COMPRISING A BASE AND A PAIR OF ARMS, SAID LAST MENTIONED DRIVE STRIP HAVING A PREDETERMINED AMOUNT OF EDGEWISE PLAY BETWEEN THE ARMS OF SAID LAST MENTIONED DRIVE STRIP AND SAID LAST MENTIONED FLANGES TO COMPENSATE FOR MISALIGNMENT BETWEEN SAID SECTIONS, AND A RELATIVELY HEAVY MASS OF REMOVABLE MATERIAL JUDICIOUSLY PLACED ON TOP OF THE HORIZONTAL MEMBERS AND ABUTTING THE INNER SURFACES OF SAID VERTICAL MEMBERS TO HOLD SAID VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL MEMBERS IN A PREDETERMINED POSITION ON TOP OF THE LEVEE AND TO PROVIDE LATERAL SUPPORT FOR SAID VERTICAL MEMBERS WHEN SUBJECTED TO THE PRESSURE OF THE WATER ON THE OUTER SURFACES THEREOF, THE LOWER PORTIONS OF SAID VERTICAL MEMBERS EXTENDING BELOW THE TOP OF THE LEVEE AND ABUTTING THE FRONT WALL OF THE LEVE TO PROTECT THE FRONT WALL FROM THE EROSIVE ACTION OF THE WATER.