Tree guard
OwnerIan McLeaninventor
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Abstract
A tree guard for young trees, seedlings, sapling and other plants such as vines which can be laid flat for storage and rolled into a cylinder for placing around a tree. The guard may include tapes for holding by means of a stake and light and air admission holes. The guard may be of easily decomposable material or may be reusable.
Claims20
A tree guard for a small plant, sapling or bush to be used during the early growth period of a tree or bush comprising a sheet of flexible material adapted to be formed into a tubular body and locking tabs having an attached portion and a distal end and cooperating tab receiving sockets incorporated into the respective joining ends of the sheet of the flexible material, whereby the tree guard can be supplied in a flat unformed condition and be formed into the tubular shape on site by means of a locking tab mating with a corresponding tab receiving socket and including an extra locking tab associated with each socket so that when the first locking tab is inserted into the socket the distal end of the tab is received in said extra locking tab to prevent it moving and working loose.
A tree guard for a small plant, sapling or bush to be used during the early growth period of a tree or bush comprising a sheet of flexible material having a substantially rectilinear shape in plan and adapted by reason of this shape and the characteristics of the flexible material to be formed into a tubular body to act as a tree guard and having locking tabs at one of the ends of the rectilinear shape, each of said locking tabs having an attached portion and a distal end, said flexible material further having cooperating tab receiving sockets incorporated in the oppositely located end of the sheet of flexible material and an extra locking tab associated with each cooperating tab receiving socket, whereby the tree guard can be supplied in an unformed condition and be formed into the tubular shape on site by means of a locking tab mating with a corresponding tab receiving socket and with each of the extra locking tabs receiving the distal end of the associated locking tab.
A tree guard for a small plant, sapling or bush to be used during the early growth period of a tree or bush comprising a sheet of flexible plastic material having a substantially rectilinear shape in plan and adapted to be formed into a tubular body to act as a tree guard and said sheet having locking tabs at one of the ends of the rectilinear shape and cooperating tab receiving sockets incorporated in the oppositely located end of the sheet of flexible material and an extra locking tab spaced from but adjacent each cooperating tab receiving socket and adapted to receive the associated locking tab.
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