Landscape Barrier Structure With Integrated Stakes and Anti-Digging Locking
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing landscape edging solutions fail to efficiently connect multiple barriers, securely support various outdoor structures, and effectively prevent animal digging, while also being cost-effective and material-efficient.
Innovation Solution
A six-device-in-one landscape barrier system that includes barrier-locking tongues, safety ridges, corner-angling holes, serpentine stakes, and anti-digging plates, allowing for secure connection and anchoring of multiple barriers, support of outdoor structures, and prevention of animal digging.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If traditional landscape edging with separate stakes and barriers is used, then assembly flexibility is provided, but manufacturing complexity and shipping volume increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate components (barrier, stakes, locking mechanisms, anti-digging plates) into a single integrated landscape barrier unit. This merging reduces the number of separate manufacturing processes and simplifies shipping, while the integrated design maintains all necessary functions through internal structural arrangements.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated landscape barrier performs multiple functions simultaneously: it provides the primary barrier structure, includes built-in stakes for anchoring, incorporates locking mechanisms for assembly, and features anti-digging plates for animal protection. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate components while maintaining assembly flexibility.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate components are used for landscape edging, then functional versatility is achieved, but shipping volume and material waste increase
Solution Approach 1:
The design nests multiple functional elements within the single barrier structure. Stakes are integrated into the barrier body, locking mechanisms are built into the barrier edges, and anti-digging plates are attached to the barrier base. This nesting arrangement maintains functional versatility while minimizing material usage and eliminating the need for separate components.
3Reliability
If traditional edging barriers are used, then basic barrier function is provided, but stability against animal digging and structural support capability are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The anti-digging plates are pre-attached to the barrier base, and stakes are pre-integrated into the barrier structure during manufacturing. This preliminary preparation ensures that when the barrier is installed, the anti-digging protection and anchoring capability are immediately effective without requiring additional components or complex assembly steps.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The system reduces material waste and costs by minimizing overlap and using space-efficient designs, while providing enhanced stability and protection for gardens and outdoor spaces.
Implementation Method 1
serpentine stakes, allowing for secure connection and anchoring of multiple barriers
Implementation Method 2
barrier-locking tongues molded to the end-wing for saving materials during manufacturing
Data Source
AI summary
A six-device-in-one landscape barrier, comprises: a barrier, a end-wing molded to the barrier for saving materials during manufacturing, being half of the length of comparable prior art and saving money for consumers by requiring less overlap at the ends of the landscape barriers and preventing animals from digging beneath the landscape barrier, when inserted into the soil vertically and bending to create a variety of corner angles, corner-angling holes cut out from the barrier for lockingly supporting a garden-plant cage and promoting bending of the end-wing to form a variety of corner angles, tongue-locking openings cut out from the end-wing, barrier-locking tongues molded to the end-wing for saving materials during manufacturing, being half of the length of comparable prior art and saving money for consumers by requiring less overlap at the two barrier ends of the landscape barriers and securely supporting solar-stake-mounted lights or a trellis for vines or climbing plants or an umbrella pole or a sprinkler head or drip line and securely connecting multiple landscape barriers together by inserting through the tongue-locking opening and wrapping over the top or under the bottom of the barrier and securely locking multiple landscape barriers together by inserting through the tongue-locking openings, wrapping in the opposite direction through the corner-angling holes, and again through the tongue-locking opening and anchoring the landscape barrier into soil and protecting garden plants from animals and saving materials during manufacturing, being half of the length of comparable prior art and saving money for consumers by requiring less overlap at the ends of the landscape barriers, a fold-over ridge folded from the top of the material-saving barrier for connecting the ridge of one landscape barrier to the ridge of an another landscape barrier to create a shield to protect garden plants from animals and to create a shield to protect saplings from animals and to create a shield to protect trees from animals and to create a barrier to protect garden vegetation from animals and to create a tonneau cover of a truck bed and providing a guide for the end-wing to slide into, at least one serpentine stake punched out of the barrier for frictionally anchoring the stake into soil by providing a serpentine stake shape and securing the landscape barrier into soil on an inclined or level surface and piercing into soil angledly or vertically, root-gripping tunnels punched out of the barrier for saving materials during manufacturing by stamping out the stake from the barrier and saving time and energy costs when the stake is stored within the root-gripping tunnel during packaging and storage and shipping the landscape barrier to reduce the space needed in each shipping container and to reduce the space needed for the landscape barrier and to reduce unit cost of the landscape barrier and securing the landscape barrier into soil by providing tunnel openings through which grass and plant roots may grow and soil may fill and locking into soil by providing tunnel lower edges below the root-gripping tunnels, stake-locking nipples formed into the barrier for locking the stake to the barrier to provide a secure place to store the stake when not in use and to prevent loss of the stake, a stopper formed into the stake, a stake-locking hole punched out of the stake for locking the stake tip to the barrier for storage and shipping and securing the stake in the soil by providing an opening through which grass and plant roots may grow and creating friction against the soil to secure the stake, at least one single-angled sheath and double-angled sheath and triple-angled sheath, molded to the barrier for connecting multiple landscape barriers by providing an opening for a strap to be threaded therethrough to create a shield to protect gardens or saplings or trees from animals and a barrier to protect garden plants from animals and a tonneau cover of a truck bed and securing the landscape barrier to the utility holes of a pickup truck by providing an opening for the stake to be threaded therethrough to create a vertical truck-bed extender and securing multiple landscape barriers to each other vertically by providing an opening for a stake to be threaded therethrough to create a tree ring or planter ring of varying heights and guiding a stake while being inserted vertically or angledly, ridges respectively pressed into the stake for wedging into the single- and double- and triple-angled sheaths to securely lock the stake for storage and shipping and wedging into the double-angled sheath to securely lock the stake and wedging into the triple-angled sheath to securely lock the stake and frictionally securing the stake into soil, having friction provided by serpentine ridge-shapes, to prevent lifting when ground expands and contracts due to changes in temperature and securingly locking the stake to the barrier by snap-locking to the triple-angled sheath.