FloodBreak Automatic Floodgates

2800 Post Oak Blvd. Suite 5850 Houston, TX 77056   Phone: 713-980-6610 Fax: 713-629-9936

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Autogate And How It Works		click to enlarge FloodBreak Automatic Floodgates is essentially a buoyant composite beam placed at the entrance to a driveway, doorway, or other potential flood path. The barrier hinges into a recess in the pavement immediately in front of the entrance. Its normal position is down, allowing full-time protection without affecting traffic or otherwise changing the look and feel of the area. The barrier's surface finish can be matched to existing decorative elements as required. When water rises and approaches the entrance, FloodBreak Automatic Floodgates floats and rotates upwards. The hydrostatic pressure of the backed-up floodwater pushes the barrier closed and seals it against a rubber flange. Once a flood has begun, the barrier will be held shut by the water and cannot be opened until the water recedes, when FloodBreak Automatic Floodgates returns to the lowered position, opening the entrance once again.
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Patent Info		click to enlarge A horizontally pivoted structurally rigid buoyant flood gate, in a housing for the gate arranged in front of an opening to a construction, is pivotally floated out of the housing by rising water entering a portal to the housing, and rotates buoyantly upward toward the opening, rising between two side walls longitudinal to the opening and separated from each other by little more than the side-to-side distance of the gate, allowing little water through any gap separating the gate from the side walls, which preferably is sealed by a compression seal, the hydrostatic pressure of water dammed behind the rising gate urging completed closure of the gate through at least the upper half of the closing arc, pressing the gate sealingly against the jambs.