At Spike Devil we have years of experience with Spikes, dating back to the original Accordion Spike system in 1990. With years of experience we understand the safety benefits of Accordion systems. Accordion Systems are tough and do not fall apart in traffic, the accordion frame deploys smoothly and more importantly clears from traffic to allow cars to safely pass and not place the deployment officer at risk to recover the spikes. Our goal in designing a Multi-sided system was to achieve the effectiveness and safety Accordion systems provide, with multisided ease of deployment.

The Leading Multi-sided sided, Tire Deflator has been complicated by the fact it is a disposable product and thus made with materials not durable. In this section of Research and planning we identify important safety concerns and how our product design, overcomes our safety concerns, and what your part is in providing and using a safer Tire deflator.

Spike belt is our multi sided spike system, which uses several 3 foot STRIPS that are housed in a 9 to 18 foot nylon material sleeve. The above illustration shows our Spike Belt, multi-sided systems on a typical roadway.

Accordion systems are built tough and the Accordion frame helps the officer avoid death traps associated with multi-sided systems. We use them here as a standard, understanding you are considering a multi-sided system.

Multi-sided systems use a sleeve, sewn from material and designed to house multiple strips with spikes. Shown above is a drawing of the Strips used by Spike Belt. Rather than a Triangle design we use a 3 foot rectangle design. This design is a tangle free design because the Sleeve holds the Strips tight and the rectangle design prevents twisting or the spinning of the Strips inside the sleeve. The overall design deploys better and allows the inertia of the deployment to open up the system, simular to an Accordion frames system. The reason this is desireable is it minimizes aditional adjustments in the most critical seconds.

Spike Belt is a tough design, which your officers can train with and not worry about wear and tear on the system. We use a heavy duty bag made from Ballistic nylon. Inside we dont use a Styrofoam which chruses when hit, but Foam that grips the Spikes and holds them inside the system once the car travels over the system. Our Covers are made of cardboard, again designed to have a grip on the Spike and prevent it from dumping Spikes on the Roadway.

Tri-sided systems dump Spikes and Strips onto the road. Shown above is the triangle design showing the tips that seperate and can cut the sleeve and dump tips, spikes, and the three foot strips on the roadway. The styrofoam shown chrushes and does not retain the spikes in the system.

In the next few sections were going to explain deployment styles and why lesser designs have a history of being death traps and how Spike Belt has been built to help you avoid the pit falls associated with multi-sided spikes, of lesser designs.

Multi-sided systems deploy in two fashions, shown above is singular Deployment of the individual Strips on the roadway. The picture to the right shows the system, with the strips in a long sleeve. While many are quick to say, that Singular Deployment is an old and dangerous deployment, not recommended, nor used, we recommend you still study this tactic. In the next few tabs labeled Singular Deployment and Cord reel deployment we explain further how our Spike Belt is superior to other multi-sided systems, with tips to avoid pitfalls.