Patent ID: 7229232

Claim:
A reinforced paving system for use on unstable surfaces as sandy beaches and playgrounds, wet areas, and trails and fields, and other terrain where wheeled equipment and wheeled vehicles risk miring, comprising: a porous flexible mat having fibrous non-woven construction and numerous irregular voids to transmit water, air, and light; a lattice having a plurality of depending projections, said lattice joining to said mat opposite from said depending projections, said lattice being formed of a grid with parallel projections arrayed upon said grid, said grid having weft members and perpendicular woof members, alternate ones of said weft members are reinforced, and said projections locating away and depending from the intersections of said weft members and said woof members; and each of said depending projections comprising a hollow tube having central cavity therein, such that when the reinforced paving system is applied to an unstable surface, the hollow tubes embed within the surface and affix the reinforced paving system in place and prevents its movement or miring upon the unstable surface.