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US 8,615,926 B1Granted
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 method for controlling weed in a planting bed having soil, the method comprising:
- a. forming a bag comprising:
- i. a front panel formed from a sheet of weed suppression material;
- ii. a back panel formed from a sheet of weed suppression material, wherein the front panel and the back panel are joined at their edges and their sides to form an enclosed bag and wherein the bag has a bag area;
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- iii. indicia along which the bag is opened so that the bag unfolds into a flat sheet of weed suppression material;
- b. filling the bag with a ground cover having a color and in an amount sufficient to cover the bag area to a predetermined depth;
- c. opening the bag along the indicia and laying the open bag in a flat configuration on the soil;
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- d. spreading the ground cover to the predetermined depth on the bag area of the open bag in the flat configuration.
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