Lightweight tarpaulin
AssigneeMobil Oil Corporation
InventorPaul V. Osborn
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Abstract
A tarpaulin incorporating a novel and structure which will enable the tarpaulin to be readily utilized as an outdoor cover, drop cloth, lawn cleanup sheet and numerous other applications even under relatively adverse environmental conditions. The tarpaulin is preferably constituted of a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic film material, which incorporates corner or edge grommet structure; which enables staking or weighted components to be detachably fastened to the structure so as to ensure that the tarpaulins will not be displaced or carried off in response to extraneous forces caused by the elements, while concurrently allowing for the easy handling thereof during use, particularly when employed for outdoor purposes, such as the accumulation and removal of lawn trash constituted of leaves, grass or shrubbery cuttings and the like.
Claims5
A lightweight tarpaulin for superposition over an object or on a surface area, said tarpaulin comprising:
- (a) a tarpualin body portion of a flexible sheet material constituted essentially of a fiber-reinforced polyethylene film, said sheet material having a plurality of apertures formed therein and spaced along the periphery of said body portion;
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- (b) a plurality of flat, disc-shaped plastic grommets each constituted of a rigid high-density polyethylene, each said grommet having a circular central opening therein and being adhesively fastened to at least one surface of said flexible sheet material such that the circular opening of the grommet is in superimposed alignment with respectively one of said apertures in said sheet material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.