Abstract: An aerodynamically smooth air manifold designed for use with an underground shelter located very close to ground zero, including a manifold body; a bottom plate under the manifold body; a manifold cover atop the manifold body; a baffle; an air pipe; a gully surrounding the top outside manifold body; a rolled angle ring surrounding the bottom outside manifold body; a plurality of first fasteners that secure a bottom flange of the air pipe and the bottom plate together; and a plurality of second fasteners that secure the rolled angle ring and the bottom plate together.

Abstract: The present invention is a self-contained, EMP shielded underground power plant. The power plant includes a housing with a round aluminum cover, a round gravity dish bottom, a carbon steel, cylindrical side connecting the cover and the bottom, and eight turnbuckles for securing the cover to the side. A generator, a battery bank, and an inverter charger that charges the battery bank are disposed within the housing. The power plant also includes air inlet and outlet manifolds baffled and covered with copper screens. The air inlet manifold includes an air filter. Exhaust air and cooling air leaving the generator are forced out of the housing through the air outlet manifold.

Abstract: The present invention is a self-contained, EMP shielded underground power plant. The power plant includes a housing with a round aluminum cover, a round gravity dish bottom, a carbon steel, cylindrical side connecting the cover and the bottom, and eight turnbuckles for securing the cover to the side. A generator, a battery bank, and an inverter charger that charges the battery bank are disposed within the housing. The power plant also includes air inlet and outlet manifolds baffled and covered with copper screens. The air inlet manifold includes an air filter. Exhaust air and cooling air leaving the generator are forced out of the housing through the air outlet manifold.

Abstract: The present invention is a composite munitions vault adapted for use underground. The munitions vault includes a watertight, non-corrosive, composite hull. The hull includes an upper section with a top, two short sides, and two long sides, where each of the two short sides and two long sides have a hexoid shape, and the upper section has no flat surfaces. The hull also includes a lower section with a convex bottom and a gravity ring spanning the circumference of the vault between the upper and lower sections.

Abstract: An arch and a shelter structure made from at least one arch. The arch is made up of two ribs, each having a curved top portion beginning at said top end of the arch that follows a curve of an ellipse having a major axis equal in length to the span of the arch and a minor axis equal in length to the height of the arch. A curved side portion is joined to each rib by a fillet blend section. The curved top portions of the two ribs contact one another and are attached to one another to form an arch having a half-hexoid shape.

Abstract: A disaster shelter and disaster shelter system. The disaster shelter includes a substantially hollow shelter cell having an interior and an exterior. The shelter cell is made up of three parts; a shelter body, an end cap section and an entranceway section. The shelter body is made up of a plurality of cell sections, each having a substantially identical double elliptical toroid shape, with the endmost cell sections forming an entrance end and a cap end respectively. The end cap section is joined to the cap end of the shelter body an entranceway section is joined to the entrance end of the shelter body. An entranceway is attached to the entranceway section of the shelter cell.

Abstract: A multi-chamber air sterilization system including an air inlet, an air test chamber in fluid communication with the air inlet, a mechanical and chemical filtration chamber, an ultraviolet light chamber, a blower and an air exhaust. The system includes a filter sleeve for filtering particulates and chemical agents, and an ultraviolet lamp for killing biological agents.

Abstract: A multi-chamber air sterilization system including an air inlet, an air test chamber in fluid communication with the air inlet, a mechanical and chemical filtration chamber, an ultraviolet light chamber, a blower and an air exhaust. The system includes a filter sleeve for filtering particulates and chemical agents, and an ultraviolet lamp for killing biological agents.

Abstract: A disaster shelter for mounting under ground. The shelter includes an entranceway having at least one air vent and a substantially hollow paraboloid shaped shelter cell. The shelter cell includes a paraboloid focus portion attached to the entranceway and paraboloid base portion disposed opposite the entranceway. A gravity ring is attached to the paraboloid base portion and is dimensioned such that the shelter is constrained within the ground when the water table reaches ground level.

Abstract: An entranceway for a disaster shelter and a disaster shelter. The entranceway include a substantially hollow main manway, a hatch dome ring disposed about, and extending outward from, the open top of the main manway; and a hatch dome cover removably attached to the hatch dome ring such that the hatch dome cover forms a weather resistant seal with the hatch dome ring. The exterior surfaces of the preferred hatch dome ring and hatch dome cover are manufactured of an intumescent laminate material. A substantially hollow emergency escape manway is disposed through the main manway wall to allow an alternate point of egress from the shelter in the event that the hatch dome cover is blocked by debris. The preferred entranceway also includes an air filter and a septic tank, each located exterior to the manway such that each may be accessed by a shelterist within the manway.

Abstract: A disaster shelter for mounting under ground. The shelter includes an entranceway having at least one air vent and a substantially hollow paraboloid shaped shelter cell. The shelter cell includes a paraboloid focus portion attached to the entranceway and paraboloid base portion disposed opposite the entranceway. A gravity ring is attached to the paraboloid base portion and is dimensioned such that the shelter is constrained within the ground when the water table reaches ground level.

Abstract: A disaster shelter for mounting under ground. The shelter includes an entranceway having at least one air vent and a substantially hollow paraboloid shaped shelter cell. The shelter cell includes a paraboloid focus portion attached to the entranceway and paraboloid base portion disposed opposite the entranceway. A gravity ring is attached to the paraboloid base portion and is dimensioned such that the shelter is constrained within the ground when the water table reaches ground level.

Abstract: A life cell for use in a disaster and a filtration system utilized with such a life cell. The life cell includes a contaminant detector, for detecting the presence of a contaminant in a volume of air, and an air filtration system for removing contaminants from the volume of air. The air filtration system of the life cell includes an air inlet, HEPA filter in fluid communication with the air inlet for removing particulate contaminants from the volume of air, and a carbon filter in fluid connection with the HEPA filter for removing chemical and biological contaminants from the volume of air. A blower is placed in fluid communication with the carbon filter and HEPA filter and acts to draw the volume of air from the air inlet, through the HEPA filter and carbon filter, and exhaust the volume of air such that a positive pressure is created. The preferred life cell includes a carbon filter made up of two layers of foam, an activated carbon filter medium, and a Whetlerite carbon filter medium.

Abstract: An underground blast shelter for providing short and long term protection against nuclear detonations for its occupants. The shelter consists of a cell to house the occupants and a command station interfacing with the ground surface. The cell and command station are vertically and horizontally spatially separated with vertical and horizontal shafts providing communication between the two. Provision is made to give protection to the occupants from blasts, overpressure, surface fires, radiation, chemical and biological warfare agents.

Abstract: Solar apparatus for producing alcohol including a frame portion, a heating portion, a slurry-forming portion, a fermentation portion, a distillation portion, a condensation portion and a drying portion; the heating portion including a plurality of solar panel members, the slurry-forming portion including a hammer mill and a frustoconical section thereunder, the frustoconical section including a tangential liquid inlet opening and a tangential slurry outlet opening, the fermentation portion including a fermentation chamber, a pump disposed adjacent the chamber, inlet and outlet conduits extending between the pump and the bottom of the chamber, the distillation portion including a base section and a face section, the face section including a conduit having a circuitous path, the condensation portion including a first chamber, a second chamber extending downwardly within the first chamber partway down from the top, a spiral conduit disposed within the first chamber, the drying portion including a solar air heati

Abstract: Solar apparatus for producing alcohol including a fermentation section and a distillation section; the fermentation section including a shallow pan with a large top opening inclined at an angle to the horizontal, a transparent sealing member disposed over the top opening of the fermentation pan, a cover for the fermentation pan; mechanism for introducing fermentable material into the fermentation pan, mechanism for removing liquid from the fermentation pan, solar heating mechanism for the liquid, mechanism for transferring the heated liquid to the distillation pan; the distillation section including a shallow pan with a large top opening inclined at an angle to the horizontal, the distillation pan including a bottom section with a plurality of spaced rib members, the rib members being disposed in a substantially horizontal, parallel orientation, a transparent sealing member disposed over the top opening of the distillation pan, mechanism for selectively reducing the solar exposure of the distillation pan, liq