Patent Application
20160097182
The disclosure relates to landscaping devices and more particularly pertains to a new landscaping device for facilitating installation of an aggregate material landscaping element and anchoring the landscaping element to prevent scattering of the aggregate material.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising an anchoring layer constructed of a flexible material. The anchoring layer has a top surface and a perimeter edge. An aggregate landscaping material comprises a plurality of individual elements. Each of the individual elements of the aggregate landscaping material is coupled to the top surface of the anchoring layer wherein each individual element is secured in a fixed position on the top surface of the anchoring layer.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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In use, the individual elements 22 of the aggregate landscaping material 20 cover the top surface of the anchoring layer 12 allowing for use of a single piece of the anchoring layer 12 to be positioned as desired where aggregate landscaping may be wanted. Additional pieces of the device 10 may be positioned with one of the inner sections 28 being abutted by an outer section 26 whereby the anchoring layer 12 having the outer section 26 overlaps and holds down at least part of the exposed portion 34 of the anchoring layer 12 having the inner section 28. The anchoring layer 12 may be cut to a desired shape and the exposed portion 34 not overlapped may be trimmed away to provide a clean landscaped look which is durable as the individual elements 22 of the aggregate landscaping material 20 will remain fixed on the respective anchoring layer 12 to which it is coupled.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
