PRIYAN'S BRIDGE

Inventor: Igor Priyan

Product Description

Priyan’s Bridge is a modular, portable bridge system for off-road vehicles. Priyan’s Bridge would enable a wide variety of users, from off-road enthusiasts to mining engineers, foresters, and emergency workers, to carry and construct their own bridge, thus gaining passage across obstacles including streams and ravines, road collapses and sinkholes, swamps and bogs.

Design Features

• Priyan’s Bridge is a portable temporary bridge. It consists of two bands, bolted together by two strapping bars – one at each end. Bands are supplied with directive rails. The bands are assembled using hard, but lightweight metal or plastic plates. These plates comprise the core of Priyan’s Bridge. If the expected load on the bridge is relatively light (pedestrians, two-wheel vehicles, etc.) the parts of Priyan’s Bridge can be assembled into a single band. A single person can assemble, set up and disassemble Priyan’s Bridge. Moreover, the assembled kit can be mounted on a front grill of the vehicle and deployed using a standard hoist.

Modular design allows users to assemble the bridges of different length, just by changing the number of plates. The plates interlace to create a band. Additionally, there are orthogonal plates on each side of the band that provide extra stiffness.

Inside vertical plates are taller to guide the vehicle and prevent accidents. There are two rows of guiding hinges (pointing up and down) on the outside of the plates. A strapping metal cable is installed along the hinges. This cable straps all plates together and creates a single assembly. The pressure is distributed by the line along all plates in the form of stretching force. This allows to increase support freight without increasing the weight of the kit.

Once assembled, Priyan’s Bridge is deployed using a hoist and A-Shape Pusher. A-Shape Pusher is a pipe shaped like letter A. It is attached to the tow-bumper or a tow hitch. In addition, A-Shape Pusher has automatic latches that fix and hold the bridge during deployment. The hoist cable is attached to the far end of the bridge. As the bridge is deployed, the hoist yields longer cable and the bridge is lifted as high as necessary. Once the bridge is deployed, the operator detaches the hoist wire and A-Shape Pusher from the bridge. Now the vehicle can safely cross the obstacle. Once safely on the other side, Priyan’s Bridge can be disassembled and stored on the vehicle for the remainder of the trip.

Advantages & Benefits

Priyan’s Bridge is an amazing new product that could take the market by storm.

Its lightweight construction, easy assembly in just as few simple steps could provide anyone with confidence and security while traveling cross country.

Who can benefit from using Priyan’s Bridge? Off-road tourists, and farmers, hunters, rangers, adventurers, miners, surveyors and engineers, military personnel and firefighters, etc.

Priyan’s Bridge will safely take a traveler over a wide variety of obstacles: Wash-outs on an abandoned logging road, sinkholes in limestone country, bogs and sumps in poorly drained loosely consolidated soils, glacial remnant landscapes, step side ditches, ravines, and arroyos in arid plateau and canyon country; crevasses left by seismic events – all of these could be spanned by using Priyan’s Bridge and thus spare traveler an enormous amount of back tracking and re-routing. Priyan’s Bridge could also function as a ramp, for instance on a steep but relatively short scarp at the edge of a plateau or trying to navigate onto and over a heap of landslide or rock fall debris. Priyan’s Bridge can provide a firm passage around creek, brook or a small river.