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This invention relates to a gardening tarp for catching garden clippings from landscape trimming and, more particularly, to tarp and method for catching the clippings from yard vegetation when periodically trimmed. Most residential and commercial building are now landscaped with beautiful ornamental trees, bushes and hedgerows of various vegetation like evergreen bushes or shrubs. After this type of landscaping is planted, it is often accented with various landscaping stones or pebbles underneath and around the trunks of the vegetation to provide a pleasing landscape architecture. The bed of crushed stone or rock provides a ground cover and keeps other vegetation such as weeds and the like from sprouting up under and around the expensive landscape vegetation.
At least monthly but likely more often, a landscape service company or homeowner will find it necessary to clip or trim the vegetation in a predetermined shape in keeping with the overall landscape architectural plan for the land. When landscape vegetation is clipped or trimmed, the droppings fall to the ground around the vegetation. The landscaping stone is often of a colored variation which shows the unsightly clippings or trimmings on top of the stone. Previously, a landscaping services might use high speed gasoline or electric blowers to blow the clippings away from the stone onto the adjacent lawn or onto the cement sidewalks or driveways where the clippings are collected for disposal. However, this favored backpacker blower use by lawn service personal is a messy process and often leaves clippings that are blown into the various plants or into the hedgerow growth itself especially if the hedgerow is adjacent the outside wall of a commercial or residential building where the turbulent air effects from the backpacker blower is magnified.
Thus, the professional landscaping service or homeowner is looking for an easier method of removing the waste clippings and preventing it from getting entangled in the hedgerow vegetation or getting mixed in with the ornamental colored stone or crushed rock. Moreover, powerful lawn service backpacker blowers cause havoc with small ground cover stone when trying to clear the clippings which will disturbed the uniform spreading of the crushed stone covering and leave bare spots for weeds to grow where once there was a bed of crushed stone or rock completely covering the soil around the vegetation.
So most homeowners and even professional landscapers are in need of a more simple, convenient portable means of collecting these clippings during the timming of these hedgerows, shrubs and bushes and the like that are typically on a monthly if not weekly maintenance program to keep their pleasing shapes without disturbing the ornamental stone as originally laid around and about the landscape vegetation and, in general, to keep things in a tidy fashion.
A portable clippings tarp in accordance with the invention includes a generally one-piece flexible nylon or plastic tarp of a generally elongated rectangular shape and a predetermined thickness for strength to catch the clippings from the vegetation. The tarp has a generally smooth surface on both sides so it does not catch on the stones or stick to the dirt around the vegetation in the absence of ornamental crushed stones or rocks around the vegetation. A plurality of grommets are spaced a predetermined distance apart from one another on the perimeter of the rectangular shaped tarp and assist in fastening of a tape located on one side also on its perimeter, such as a hook-and-loop fastener or touch fastener. One such brand of hook and loop fasteners are the VELCRO® brand of fasteners. At opposing ends of the tarp are rope handles fixedly attached thereto for picking up the tarp and carrying it to a disposal receptacle like a garden trash barrel or yard waste bag for disposal of the clippings with the waste disposal services of the city, town or village. The tarp further includes several sets of straps for storing the tarp in a folded configuration for easy storage of the tarp in the home or on a landscaper's truck.
A method for using the portable clippings tarp includes the unfolding of the tarp from its storage configuration and spreading it out in an elongated fashion on top of the soil or ornamental stone closely adjacent the vegetation to be trimmed. Since the tarp is very flexible, strong, smooth and generally waterproof, it will conform to most trimming layouts unlike a heavy canvas tarpaulin, which is bulky and difficult to configure in tight places such as between a building wall and a hedgerow were clippings are difficult to catch before the clippings fall upon the ornamental stones, pebbles or soil adjacent the hedgerow being trimmed. The task of trimming ornamental landscaping vegetation often falls to a woman in the household who desires to have a very light-weight and easily to maneuver tarp to catch the clippings. So a heavy canvas tarpaulin is not a practical means of use by women or even most men at the household. With the tarp spread out adjacent the side of the hedgerow being trimmed, the landscaper or homeowner then trims the hedgerow vegetation with the clippings falling into a generally U-shaped configuration of the tarp between a building wall and the hedge being trimmed.
Next, the tarp is closed to form a clippings trap, pouch or chamber for the clippings by touching the perimeter loop and hook strips along the opposing edges to form a generally cylindrical chamber or pouch with the clippings therein. At least one or more pair of rope handles affixed to the tarp is used to carrying the cylindrical shaped clippings pouch or chamber within the tarp to a yard waste barrel, bag or other receptacle for disposal. The homeowner or landscaper then tips the cylindrical pouch or chamber downwardly at one end and the clippings by gravitational pull fall out of the open end of the cylindrically shaped chamber or pouch within the tarp into the yard waste disposal barrel or bag. An opposing hook and loop fastener strip across each end of the cylindrically shaped tarp allows the trimmer or landscaper to close each of the ends of the chamber by touching the hook and loop strips together in a transport mode until reaching the yard waste disposal receptacle.
Then the loop and hook fastener strips are pulled apart at least at one end of the tarp chamber or pouch to dispose of the clippings. Given the size of the clippings it often becomes necessary to carry the various clippings without spilling them out one end or the other in its cylindrically chamber or pouch configuration while transporting them to the yard waste receptacle. Afterwards, the tarp hook and loop fastener strip attachments are pulled apart along their outer edges of the rectangular shaped tarp and the tarp is then folded into a compact and convenient predetermined configuration for storage. A combination of exterior hook and loop fastener removable straps and strips, affixed on the opposite side from the hook and loop fastener perimeter strips, maintains the tarp in a tidy folded configuration for its storage in a folded configuration like a folded blanket on a shelf in a closet.
It is a principal object of the present invention to provide a lightweight, portable but extremely durable and strong, gardening tarp to catch the clippings from the landscape vegetation that can be easily transported to a waste disposal receptacle without spilling the clippings.
It is still a further object of the invention to provide a gardening tarp that can be configured into a clippings chamber or pouch for transporting the clippings to a waste disposal receptacle.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a secure collector for vegetation clippings from trimming bushes, shrubs and hedgerows in which an interior clippings pouch or chamber is formed that is impervious to turbulent air coming from a backpacker blower when the collector is left in place during a maintenance session for any reason.
It is an object of the invention to provide a gardening tarp that resists moisture from wet clippings or weather including rain and that sheds the moisture to keep the tarp light-weight if left out in a rain during an interrupted trimming due to weather or left out overnight and then once again subject to an overnight rain shower.
It is a another object of the invention to provide a waterproof gardening tarp which is capable of forming an enclosed chamber or pouch for transporting the vegetation clippings that generally keeps out weather elements like a rain shower so that the weight of the clippings remains low because the clippings are prevented from absorbing the moisture from the rain or other weather elements when left on the ground during a trimming operation.
Other features and advantages of the invention, which are believed to be novel and nonobvious, will be apparent from the following specification taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which there is shown a preferred embodiment of the invention. Reference is made to the claims for interpreting the full scope of the invention, which is not necessarily represented by any one embodiment.
Although this invention is susceptible to embodiments of many different forms, a preferred embodiment will be described and illustrated in detail herein. The present disclosure exemplifies the principles of the invention and is not to be considered a limit to the broader aspects of the invention to the particular embodiment as described.
Referring now to the drawings and especially to
The tarp 10 is generally an elongated rectangular shape made out of a waterproof nylon or plastic material or any other suitable material having the same properties. Hook and loop fastener strips 24 are fixedly attached to one side of the tarp along its entire outer edges. The hook and loop fastener strips 24 are fastened to one another from touching their surfaces together along the outer edges of the tarp wherein one opposing side of the tarp includes a hook fastener strip and the other opposing side of the tarp includes a mating loop fastener strip which in turn forms a tight and complete closure of the tarp edges to form a clippings chamber or pouch. The operation of closing the hook and loop fastener strips by touching the strips together is well known in the art from the use of VELCRO® hook and loop fasteners on all types of materials by the general public.
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In addition, pair of generally rope handles 34, which can be made of nylon or other suitable material, are fixedly attached at opposite ends of the tarp 10 permit the homeowner to easily carry the tarp 10 to the receptacle 32 for disposal as shown in
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Having described and illustrated the principles of the invention in a preferred embodiment thereof, it should be apparent that the invention can be modified in arrangement and detail without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.
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