Patent ID: 7445162
Filing Date: 2008-11-04
Classification: B05B

Abstract:
1. A garden water feature to be sold as a kit comprising: (a) a bucket having a closed bottom, an open top and a cylindrical sidewall therebetween the sidewall having a flange surrounding the open top; (b) a decorative natural stone sized and shaped to fit within the bucket, the stone having a bore formed therethrough from a bottom surface to a top surface of the stone; (c) a water impervious, foldable, plastic sheet of a predetermined area at least five times an area of said bucket's open top and a central aperture of an area less than that of the bucket's open top; (d) a submersible, electric pump having an inlet port and an outlet port; (e) a length of plastic tubing having an outside diameter sized to fit through the bore in the stone and an inside diameter adapted to fit about said pump's outlet port with a friction fit; (f) a bucket lid having a pattern of apertures formed through a thickness dimension of the lid, the lid having a size to cover the bucket's open top and a rim configured to receive the flange therein; and (g) the sheet, pump and tubing capable of fitting within the bucket along with the stone, and the bucket lid closing the open top of the bucket at the time of sale, with the bucket adapted to be buried in the ground to constitute a water reservoir.