Edging border devices for plants, lawns and gardens

• US 20030089031A1
• Filed: 11/05/2002
• Published: 05/15/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jinshyun Ruth Wu-Wong, Kinfun Wong
• Original Assignee: Jinshyun Ruth Wu-Wong, Kinfun Wong
• Inventors: Wu-Wong, Jinshyun Ruth, Wong, Kinfun
• Application Number:
  US10/288,898
• Publication Number:
  US 20030089031A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 47/33
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 9/28 Raised beds; Planting beds; Edging elements for beds, lawn or the like, e.g. tiles

Abstract

Precast plastic or fiberglass landscape border building units that can be filled with substances such as water and/or other filling materials, and used as yard edging and fence, around trees, bushes, plants, and on lawns. The units are light and easy to move and/or carry, and, once assembled, are weighed down by filling materials to avoid ground movement. The units can be plain, hollow pieces in various shapes and colors. The units can also have protrusions and grooves that allow several pieces to be connected, assembled or stacked together using the protrusions or grooves. In addition, the units can have certain carved-out patterns or designs that allow plants to grow within the units.

Claims

1. A compact, lightweight, and leak proof landscape bordering and edging device comprising:

at least one cavity defined by an enclosure with enclosure walls surrounding said cavity;

at least one filling and capping means located on said enclosure walls and in communication with said at least one cavity; and

an optional filling substance being filled and capped within said cavity through said filling and capping means.

2. The landscape bordering and edging device of claim 1 wherein said enclosure walls are made with a durable plastic material.

3. The landscape bordering and edging device of claim 2 wherein said durable plastic material is polypropylene or polyethylene.

4. The landscape bordering and edging device of claim 1 wherein said enclosure walls are made with a material selected from the group consisting of fiberglass, metal, hard rubber, tile, masonry, wood and wood-by-products.

5. The landscape bordering and edging device of claim 1 wherein said enclosure walls are made of a transparent material so as to allow the color of said filling substance to show through thus achieving a desired visual effect.

6. The landscape bordering and edging device of claim 1 wherein the size, shape and color of said enclosure are chosen to fit a pre-determined landscape environment.

7. The landscape bordering and edging device of claim 1 wherein said filling substance is a medium for plant growth and said enclosure walls are made of carved-out surfaces to allow the growth of plants there from with the resulting landscape device being called a planting unit.

8. The landscape bordering and edging device of claim 1 wherein said enclosure walls are made with painted or carved-out surfaces to satisfy a pre-determined esthetic requirement.

9. The landscape bordering and edging device of claim 1 further comprising a number of interconnecting means located on said enclosure walls for interconnecting, in a manner allowing easy future disconnection, a number of said landscape devices to form a predetermined spatial layout pattern.

10. The landscape bordering and edging device of claim 9 wherein said predetermined spatial layout pattern is a pattern lying on a ground plane.

11. The landscape bordering and edging device of claim 9 wherein said predetermined spatial layout pattern is a pattern resembling a fence.

12. The landscape bordering and edging device of claim 11 wherein a number of said landscape devices located higher up along the fence altitude are selected to be planting units thus providing a corresponding visual effect of growing plants at a height.

13. The landscape bordering and edging device of claim 9 wherein, owing to the weight of said filling substance, those landscape devices resting on a ground are completely filled with said filling substance thus eliminating an otherwise needed anchoring features and associated installation steps while those landscape devices located higher up are only partially filled with said filling substance thus eliminating an unnecessary load on those landscape devices closer to the ground.

14. The landscape bordering and edging device of claim 1 wherein said filling substance is selected from a group consisting of water, pebbles, marbles and sand to simultaneously provide a strength to said landscape device against cracking and to prevent a ground movement beneath said landscape device.

15. The landscape bordering and edging device of claim 1 wherein said enclosure is of any size, shape and color.

16. A method of implementing a landscape bordering and edging design comprising:

a. providing a landscape bordering and edging design;

b. providing a corresponding total number of landscape bordering and edging devices with each landscape device having a number of interconnecting means and at least one cavity surrounded by an enclosure, wherein the size, shape and color of said enclosure are chosen to fit said landscape bordering and edging design, having enclosure walls and at least one filling and capping means for filling and enclosing said cavity with a filling substance there through; and

c. concurrently filling and enclosing a selected number of the total number of landscape devices with a filling substance of choice and interconnecting said total number of landscape devices through said interconnecting means to form a predetermined spatial layout pattern.