Patent Application
20220087118
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The disclosure relates to retention devices and more particularly pertains to a new retention device for retaining water around a plant.
The prior art relates to retention devices including a variety of watering devices that comprise a pair of concentric rings for retaining water around a plant and a plurality of drain holes for watering the plant. The prior art discloses a water barrier that includes a pair of concentric rings, one of which is crenellated for penetrating ground. Additionally, the prior art discloses a water battier for surrounding plant which includes a wind screen extending upwardly therefrom.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a barrier that includes a first ring portion integrated into to a second ring portion. The first ring portion can be inserted into ground having the second ring portion surrounding a plant. The barrier is comprised of a fluid impermeable material to retain water around the plant when the plant is watered. Additionally, the barrier has a feed passage extending therethrough to accommodate a supply pipe of a water drip system. In this way to the water drip system can automatically water the plant surrounded by the second ring portion.
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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The second ring portion 16 has a top wall 26 and an outer wall 28 extending downwardly from an outer perimeter 30 of the top wall 26. Additionally, the second ring portion 16 includes an inner wall 32 extending downwardly from an inner perimeter 34 of the top wall 26. Each of the inner wall 32 and the outer wall 28 are continuously arcuate about a center point of the second ring portion 16 such that the second ring portion 16 has a ring shape. The feed passage 20 comprises a first hole 36 extending through the outer wall 28 and a second hole 38 extending through the inner wall 32. The first hole 36 is aligned with the second hole 38, and each of the first hole 36 and the second hole 38 is positioned adjacent to the top wall 26.
Each of the inner wall 32 and the outer wall 28 has a distal edge 40 with respect to the top wall 26. Moreover, the inner wall 32 extends downwardly beyond the outer wall 28 such that the distal edge 40 of the inner wall 32 is spaced below the distal edge 40 of the outer wall 28. The inner wall 32 defines the first ring portion 14 of the barrier 12. Additionally, the first ring portion 14 extends between the distal edge 40 of the outer wall 28 and the distal edge 40 of the inner wall 32. The first ring portion 14 has a diameter that is less than the diameter of the second ring portion 16. The second ring portion 16 may have a diameter ranging between approximately 3.0 inches and 10.0 inches. Additionally, the first ring portion 14 and the second ring portion 16 may have a combined height of at least 3.0 inches.
In use, the first ring portion 14 of the barrier 12 is urged downwardly into the ground 17 such that the second ring portion 16 surrounds the plant 18. In this way the second ring portion 16 retains water around the plant 18 when the plant 18 is watered. Additionally, the supply pipe 22 of the water drip system 24 can be extended through each of the first hole 36 and the second hole 38. In this way the water drip system 24 can automatically water the plant 18 while the second ring surrounds the plant 18.
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.
