Lightweight, compact, beach towel assembly
View Patent ↗A compact, lightweight beach towel assembly including a ground cover and circumscribing sidewall having an elastomeric band, the ground cover weighted with sand bags, optionally including flexible rods.
1. A compact beach towel assembly comprising:
a flexible ground cover;
an uninterrupted sidewall circumscribing an exterior perimeter of the flexible ground cover, a bottom edge of the sidewall connected directly to the perimeter of the ground cover;
wherein the uninterrupted sidewall defines one or more hollow pockets circumscribing an upper edge of the sidewall;
an elastic band circumscribing the upper edge of the sidewall within the hollow pockets;
a plurality of bags adapted to hold sand, each bag positioned on a corner of the ground cover, wherein each bag comprises a plurality of tie strings, each bag applying tensile force to the sidewall and holding the sidewall in place laterally and vertically using a friction fit.
2. The compact beach towel assembly of claim 1 , wherein the flexible ground cover is one of square, rectangular, triangular, hexagonal, octagonal and ovoid.
3. The compact beach towel assembly of claim 1 , wherein the hollow pockets do not circumscribe corners of the sidewall but rather planar edges of the sidewall.