Garden-border system with couplers, stakes, and pins
View Patent ↗A unique garden-border system, for sealing the soil and water inside a garden bed, for anchoring a garden bed on a slope, and for forming a staircase-like garden bed on a slope, comprises garden-bed strips having staircase-forming openings and swing-preventing teeth stamped therein, gap-eliminating couplers having slanted-stake tunnels and strip recesses molded therein for coupling the garden-bed strips, multi-function locking pins for locking the garden-bed strips to the gap-eliminating couplers at desired angles and elevations, and anti-sliding V-shaped stakes having underground-interlocking anchors molded thereon for being inserted through the slanted-stake tunnels of the gap-eliminating couplers, to form desired shapes and elevations of the unique garden-border system.
1. A garden-border system, for forming and anchoring a unique garden bed, comprising:
a plurality of garden-bed strips, each of said garden-bed strips having two strip ends and a plurality of openings integrated into each of said two strip ends respectively,
said openings allowing said garden-bed strips to pivot and ascend or descend around said openings respectively to eliminate gaps between the garden-border system and sloping ground to prevent soil and nutrition from leaking through said gaps to increase the grow rate of plants planted within the garden-border system;
a plurality of gap-eliminating couplers, each of said gap-eliminating couplers having four corner areas, two coupler ends, a plurality of pin holes, two strip recesses, and at least one slanted-stake tunnel, said pin holes molded into said four corner areas respectively, said two strip recesses molded into said two coupler ends respectively, said at least one slanted-stake tunnel molded into said gap-eliminating couplers between said two strip recesses in an angle, each of said two strip recesses for one of said garden-bed strips to be inserted therein, said gap-eliminating couplers for coupling said garden-bed strips to form said predetermined shape and elevation of the garden-border system;
a plurality of swing-preventing teeth, each of said openings of said garden-bed strips having a surrounding edge, said swing-preventing teeth molded on each of said surrounding edges respectively;
a plurality of multi-function locking pins, each of said locking pins having a plurality of one-way-snap-locking wings molded thereon, said locking pins and said one-way-snap-locking wings pushed through said pin holes of said gap-eliminating couplers and through said openings of said garden-bed strips respectively such that said one-way-snap-locking wings engage with said swing-preventing teeth and snap-lock said locking pins in place respectively and such that said swing-preventing teeth prevent said locking pins and said one-way-snap-locking wings from sliding back out of said pin holes and out of said openings respectively, said locking pins for locking said gap-eliminating couplers to said garden-bed strips and for locking said swing-preventing teeth in place to prevent said garden-bed strips from moving respectively;
a plurality of anti-sliding V-shaped stakes, said anti-sliding V-shaped stakes inserted through said at least one slanted-stake tunnel of said gap-eliminating couplers and into the sloping ground in an angle respectively, said anti-sliding V-shaped stakes for interlocking said gap-eliminating couplers and said garden-bed strips with the sloping ground in an angle, to prevent the garden-border system from being distorted and shifting; and
a plurality of underground-interlocking anchors, each of said anti-sliding V-shaped stakes having a tip, each of said underground-interlocking anchors molded to said tip, said underground-interlocking anchors inserted into the sloping ground in an angle for interlocking said gap-eliminating couplers and said garden-bed strips with the sloping ground in an angle, to prevent the garden-border system from being distorted and shifting.
2. The garden-border system of claim 1 , wherein each of said openings has a horseshoe shape.
3. The garden-border system of claim 1 , wherein each of said openings has an elongated curved oval shape.
4. The garden-border system of claim 1 , wherein each of said openings has a letter-C shape.
5. The garden-border system of claim 1 , wherein the garden-border system has a stepped shape.
6. The garden-border system of claim 1 , wherein said snap-locking wings each have a respective free distal end shaped as substantially semi-circular.
7. The garden-border system of claim 1 , wherein the garden-border system is sloping.
8. The garden-border system of claim 1 , wherein each of said underground-interlocking anchors has an arrowhead-like shape.
9. The garden-border system of claim 1 , wherein each of said underground-interlocking anchors has a diamond shape.
10. The garden-border system of claim 1 , wherein each of said anti-sliding V-shaped stakes is made of rigid material.
11. The garden-border system of claim 1 , wherein each of said anti-sliding V-shaped stakes has a round cross-section.
12. The garden-border system of claim 1 , wherein each of said anti-sliding V-shaped stakes has a square cross-section.
13. The garden-border system of claim 1 , wherein each of said multi-function locking pins is made of semi-rigid material.
14. The garden-border system of claim 1 , wherein each of said multi-function locking pins has a square cross-section.
15. The garden-border system of claim 1 , wherein each of said multi-function locking pins has a round cross-section.
16. A garden-border system, comprising:
a plurality of garden-bed strips, each of said garden-bed strips having two strip ends and a plurality of openings integrated into said two strip ends respectively,
said openings each having a curved shape,
said garden-bed strips for forming the garden-border system, said openings for allowing said garden-bed strips to pivot and ascend or descend around said openings respectively to eliminate gaps between the garden-border system and the ground to prevent soil and nutrition from leaking through said gaps to increase the grow rate of plants planted within the garden-border system;
a plurality of gap-eliminating couplers, each of said gap-eliminating couplers having four corner areas, two coupler ends, a plurality of pin holes, two strip recesses, and at least one slanted-stake tunnel, said pin holes molded into said four corner areas respectively, said two strip recesses molded into said two coupler ends respectively, said at least one slanted-stake tunnel molded into said gap-eliminating couplers between said two strip recesses in an angle, each of said two strip recesses for one of said garden-bed strips to be inserted therein, said gap-eliminating couplers for coupling said garden-bed strips to form the garden-border system;
a plurality of swing-preventing teeth, each of said openings of said garden-bed strips having a surrounding edge, said swing-preventing teeth molded on each of said surrounding edges respectively;
a plurality of locking pins, each of said locking pins having a plurality of one-way-snap-locking wings molded thereon, said locking pins and said one-way-snap-locking wings pushed through said pin holes of said gap-eliminating couplers and through said openings of said garden-bed strips respectively such that said one-way-snap-locking wings engage with said swing-preventing teeth and snap-lock said locking pins in place respectively and such that said swing-preventing teeth prevent said locking pins and said one-way-snap-locking wings from sliding back out of said pin holes and out of said openings respectively, said locking pins for locking said gap-eliminating couplers to said garden-bed strips and for locking said swing-preventing teeth in place to prevent said garden-bed strips from moving respectively;
a plurality of anti-sliding V-shaped stakes, said anti-sliding V-shaped stakes inserted through said at least one slanted-stake tunnel of said gap-eliminating couplers and into the ground in an angle respectively, said anti-sliding V-shaped stakes for interlocking said gap-eliminating couplers and said garden-bed strips with the ground in an angle, to prevent the garden-border system from being distorted and shifting; and
a plurality of underground-interlocking anchors, each of said anti-sliding V-shaped stakes having a tip, each of said underground-interlocking anchors molded to said tip, said underground-interlocking anchors inserted into the ground in an angle for interlocking said gap-eliminating couplers and said garden-bed strips with the ground in an angle, to prevent the garden-border system from being distorted and shifting.
17. The garden-border system of claim 16 , wherein each of said openings has a horseshoe shape.
18. The garden-border system of claim 16 , wherein each of said openings has a letter-C shape.
19. The garden-border system of claim 16 , wherein each of said anti-sliding V-shaped stakes is made of metallic material.
20. The garden-border system of claim 16 , wherein each of said anti-sliding V-shaped stakes has a round cross-section.