Patent ID: 9232698
Filing Date: 2016-01-12
CPC Classification: A01G,E01C

Claim Text:
1. A lawn edging apparatus comprising: a resilient, elongate, vertical, unitary backing strip comprising: a horizontal base portion comprising: a plurality of ground insertion spikes depending downwardly from the backing strip, wherein the upper toe plate row and the lower toe plate row are staggered whereby each upper toe plate in the plurality of upper toe plates is horizontally aligned with a lower space in the plurality of lower spaces and each lower toe plate in the plurality of lower toe plates is horizontally aligned with an upper space in the plurality of upper spaces, wherein each upper toe plate in the plurality of upper toe plates further comprises a flat bottom surface and each lower toe plate in the plurality of lower toe plates further comprises a flat top surface, and whereby a pair of adjacent upper and lower toe plates is defined by each upper toe plate and an adjacent lower toe plate that overlap to form a plain bearing between the bottom surface of the upper toe plate and the top surface of the adjacent lower toe plate, and wherein for each pair of adjacent upper and lower toe plates, an end of the proximal edge of the upper toe plate is coterminous at a vertical line with an end of the proximal edge of the lower toe plate, thereby defining a coterminous pair of proximal edge ends.