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OFFSET TRENCHING METHODS AND APPARATUS, AND VOID RESTORATION METHODS, APPARATUS AND MATERIALS IN CONNECTION WITH SAME

  • US 20140334878A1
  • Filed: 03/11/2014
  • Published: 11/13/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2013
  • Status: Active Application
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1. A method, comprising:

  • A) forming a trench along an inner face of a street curb, wherein;

    the street curb has an exposed top face, a buried bottom face, and a partially exposed outer face adjacent to and abutting a road surface;

    at least a portion of the inner face of the street curb, prior to A), is adjacent to and abutting a sidewalk material;

    the exposed top face of the street curb defines an x-y plane of a reference coordinate system, wherein a y-axis of a coordinate system is essentially normal to the outer face and the inner face of the street curb, an x-axis is essentially parallel to the outer face and the inner face of the street curb, and a z-axis is normal to the x-y plane; and

    the trench is formed in A) such that the trench includes a first vertical sidewall substantially constituted by the inner face of the street curb and a second vertical sidewall constituted at least in part by the sidewalk material.

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