Ten Fold devises, develops and owns the rights to its counterbalanced lever systems, patented folding technology and assembly ‘know-how’.
The Ten Fold system allows relocatable buildings and other structures and devices to fold to a smaller size so that they can be moved more easily. They operate without complex drive systems and use very little power.
There are limitless applications for Ten Fold technology because it reduces cost and complexity, making the products that incorporate it easier to use, more adaptable and more accessible to more people.
Ten Fold Engineering Limited has devised a ‘family' of pin-jointed linkages that perform specific useful movements repeatedly, precisely and reversibly in such a way that they can fold up, with each element counterbalancing the other so that very little power is needed to drive them.
All the linkages can be driven by almost any one of the individual bars of the linkage. This gives them extreme versatility and flexibility in all applications and obviates the need for complex locking and feedback systems. In addition, any bar of the linkage can be the fixed bar, offering yet further choice over the shape formed, or the direction taken, by the linkage or anything attached to it.
As a result, and depending on their orientation and the choice of the fixed bar, physically identical linkages can form movements that appear radically different. In the images below, the three structures use identical linkages. However, the canopy is an inversion of the bridge linkage and the double height canopy uses the end linkage as the fixed bar.
The length of the individual bars of the linkages can be changed to form very specific movements but Ten Fold has devised and applied a geometry that allows a large and practical range of movements using only three different lengths of bar.
This modular approach makes the system very flexible and affordable, and the parts interchangeable.
There is virtually no limit to the range of movements or the size of the structures that these linkages can support beyond the limitations of the materials they are composed of and if constructed properly they function equally well using metal, plastics or even timber.
The linkages themselves can be combined with others and drive each other and form straight or circular movements, and fractals.
These pin-jointed linkages can be designed to be self-triangulating in the locked out position allowing them to perform stable structural shapes like beams and bridges when unfolded but still re-fold to a very compact configuration for convenience, ease of transport or ease of storage.
The individual bars of the linkages and the objects they drive or carry can be changed in weight to form almost perfectly calibrated counterbalanced systems or, in the case of several of the building designs, the linkages are calibrated to have a tendency to move in one direction, which simplifies the drive system.
Ten Fold linkages are the only practical linkages that can fold virtually flat but extend in a straight line to multiples of their height without requiring complementary support and without any part of the linkage itself preceding or obstructing the passage of an object fixed to it.
Another quality of the linkages is that although they follow slightly curved paths, when placed back to back they can form geometrically perfect straight lines. This latter quality, which is exemplified in some of the designs shown in this website mean that the linkages can be used at micro or macro scale in anything from bridges to precision instruments.
Ten Fold linkages can be licensed.
TEN FOLD’s linkages drive and guide the unfolding of the floors and side walls simultaneously allowing them to deploy extremely quickly and reversibly, using surprisingly little power. The linkage system is composed of simple components without hydraulics, complex locking mechanisms or feedback systems.
The linkages allow hitherto unachievable lateral extensions of the sides of the unit, substantially in excess of the height of the units and to almost double the distance of other market alternatives, allowing real-scale space to be delivered from a readily mobile and easily handleable unit the size of an iso container.
Adjustable legs and outriggers allow the units to be deployed safely anywhere they are required, on unprepared, sloping or uneven ground. All the expansion occurs from the central chassis thus requiring only a modest footprint of firm ground. No site power supply or complementary machinery or labour is required.
TEN FOLD units are robust and resilient, long-life, well-insulated buildings designed to be moved and moved again but with the design and performance characteristics expected of a solid building. The units can be built to international standards and designed to comply with the broadest ranges of construction codes.
The units are comprised of only three components: the chassis, the panels and the pods. All services are cassette-mounted so there is no hard-wiring or plumbing. Most components can be replaced without disruption to any other, ensuring easy and economic maintenance and upgrading and low redundancy.
TEN FOLD units are ecological and sustainable and offer a credible and environmentally non-destructive alternative to traditional forms of land occupation, allowing reversible land development. TEN FOLD units can meet modern BREEAM and LEED energy, material and production sustainability standards.
The TEN FOLD design team are committed to the principle of constant value-engineering to simplify and optimise the performance of each component. Most components in TEN FOLD units are exchangeable and multi-functional, reducing the number of parts, increasing system efficiency and reducing waste.
This technology, with its standardised components and modularity options will inevitably lead to cheaper products, lower operating costs, less waste and redundancy and higher residual capital value. Ten Fold Products are Transportable Property Assets.
No plant required at delivery point.
Reduced build & break times.
One unit with multiple uses.
More space from fewer trucks.
Low depreciation Capital asset.
No complex engineering systems.
Workspace and tools in one place.
Less infrastructure on short term sites.
Anyone can operate it.
All the designs featured on this website show practical examples of applications of our lever systems and folding ‘Know-How’. They are not fantasies, they are engineerable realities that resolve technical and commercial challenges in a simple and effective way, allowing people and the things they need, to be where they are needed, when they are needed.
This website shows only a small selection of our folding and expanding systems but this technology has applications across all sectors from buildings, structures and machines to medical devices and space exploration.
Ten Fold wants to engage with you to help you embrace this technology so that you can be more agile, save time, do things faster and more efficiently whilst making better and less destructive use of land and other resources.
We welcome anyone who wants to be a Ten Fold Licensee. This is an agreement to build or have built products that incorporate Ten Fold IP and ‘Know-How’. The terms of the Ten Fold Technology License Agreement and details of the Technical Support Services we offer are available on request.
We don’t want people to have to wait for our products so we want to create a network of approved manufacturers to service product demand. The terms of the Ten Fold Approved Manufacturer agreement are available on request.
You will shortly be able to buy Ten Fold units via our network of approved manufacturers. As our Engineering team expands we will also be able to offer a full design and customisation service.
We are able to partner you in developing your own version of any of our designs or even exclusive products of your own design that incorporate Ten Fold Technology.
We want your views on what we are doing right and what you think we could do better, how the products could be improved and where the products would have greatest positive impact. Please address all feedback to feedback@tenfoldengineering.com
If you would like to be kept up to date with the latest developments at Ten Fold or give your views on our products or market opportunities, please contact: today@tenfoldengineering.com
There are no geographical limits to where these units can be installed. They do not need foundations and can be installed on sloping or uneven ground.
The folding system is very efficient, so you can make more space, more quickly and more easily with fewer trucks and no plant or labour.
Deployment takes only a few minutes and is fully reversible with equal ease and speed.
This unit expands to three times its size in transport and there is space inside for 20m3 of your furniture or equipment.
The interchangeable pod system allows you to incorporate almost any combination of folding partitions and equipment to suit any purpose.
The units can be stacked and interlinked in almost any way to provide accommodation at any scale.
The components are modular so almost any arrangement of panels, doors, windows and service pods is possible. The units can even be one-sided and hung from an existing structure.
There is space in the unit and in bolt-on modular pods for power systems, batteries, water storage, water treatment, air-handling systems, materials and equipment to suit every application.
Every element can be added, upgraded or replaced with ease, making Ten Fold units Future Proof.
This film shows a 64m2 unit that opens and closes in 10 minutes using a hand-held battery-powered drill. Everything you see in the unit at the end of the film was already inside it at the start, with room to spare. This unit was developed in association with G3 Industry and the latest version is now for sale.
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