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US 8,522,476 B2Granted
Bag constructed of weed suppression material for packaging ground cover material
AssigneeR & J East, Inc.
InventorsRobert Neal Alfred Hawkinson, James Earl Hawkinson
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Abstract
A bag constructed of a weed suppression material for packaging a ground cover material. When the bag is in a closed configuration, the bag serves as a container for shipping, handling, and storage of the ground cover material. When the bag is opened and unfolded, and the ground cover material within the bag is spread over the opened and unfolded bag, the bag serves as a layer of weed suppression material on top of underlying soil and beneath the ground cover.
Claims14
A weed suppression system for a planting bed having soil, the system comprising:
- a. a bag comprising:
- i. a front panel formed from a sheet of weed suppression material and having a front panel area;
- ii. a back panel formed from a sheet of weed suppression material and having a back panel area, wherein the front panel and the back panel are joined only at their end edges and their side edges to form a completely enclosed bag, wherein at least one end edge or one side edge constitutes a fold line, and wherein the bag has a bag area comprising the front panel area and the back panel area;
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- iii. indicia along which the bag is opened so that the bag unfolds along the fold line into a single flat sheet of weed suppression material including the entire bag area;
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- b. a ground cover having a color contained within the bag, wherein the ground cover is selected from the group comprising mulch, rock material, composted soil, and ground synthetic particles.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.