Patent ID: 6594959
Filing Date: 2003-07-22
Classification: A01G

Abstract:
A masonry lawn edging block assembly for forming a mowable border along a multi-grade landscape setting having a specific configuration and including a lawn area and an adjacent raised area, the lawn area having a first ground elevation and being mowable by a lawn mowing implement, the adjacent raised area having a second ground elevation, the second ground elevation being higher than the first ground elevation, the modular masonry lawn edging block assembly comprising:a plurality of like-shaped straight blocks, each of said straight blocks having front and rear ends that define its block width and opposed longitudinal ends that define its block length, each of said blocks having a base with an outwardly extending portion and a wall with an upwardly extending portion, said base having an upper platform and a front surface, said front surface being adapted to abut the lawn area, and said platform having a predetermined platform width and a front end adapted to be substantially even with the first ground elevation, said wall having forward and rearward surfaces and a top end, said forward surface being spaced a predetermined wall thickness from said rearward surface, said rearward surface being adapted to abut the raised area, said top end being adapted to be one of either above and substantially even with the second ground elevation, and said platform and wall extending said length of said block; a plurality of like-shaped corner blocks, each of said corner blocks having front and rear ends that define its block width and opposed longitudinal ends that define its block length, each of said blocks having a base with an outwardly extending portion and a wall with an upwardly extending portion, said base having an upper platform and a front surface, said front surface being adapted to abut the lawn area, and said platform having said predetermined platform width and a front end adapted to be substantially even with the first ground elevation, said wall having forward and rearward surfaces and a top end, said forward surface being spaced said predetermined wall thickness from said rearward surface, said rearward surface being adapted to abut the raised area, said top end being adapted to be one of either above and substantially even with the second ground elevation, said wall extending from said one end of said block to a terminal end spaced substantially one platform width from said other end of said block, said platform extending said length of said block and including a side portion traversing said block width from said terminal end of said wall to said other end of said block; wherein said straight and corner blocks have substantially equal block widths, block lengths, platform widths and wall thicknesses, adjacent straight blocks aligning in an end-to-end alignment to form linear segments, each linear segment having a desired length, each of said corner blocks aligning in an end-to-end alignment with a first adjacent straight block and in an end-to-rear alignment with a second adjacent straight block to form a corner at a desired location, said linear segments and corner being located to accommodate the specific configuration of the multi-grade landscape setting, wherein said walls of said straight and corner blocks combine to form a continuous wall adapted to maintain the raised area at the second ground elevation, and wherein said platforms of said straight and corner blocks combine to form a continuous deck adapted to support the lawn mowing implement and allowing it to smoothly travel from one block to another and to smoothly travel from the first ground elevation onto said deck.