DE8900794U1 - Flower bed edging with snail roof - Google Patents

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Flower bed border with snail roof

The invention relates to a bed border with a snail roof. The purpose of the invention is to reliably and permanently protect seed and vegetable beds in horticulture from snail damage. Poisons such as so-called snail pellets only provide inadequate protection for crops. In addition, these pellets are ingested by pets, birds and other animals, which usually die a painful death as a result.

So-called snail traps have also been known for many years in numerous designs, but they do not guarantee absolute protection. Beer traps, water barriers, depressions with paste-like masses, nor mechanical obstacles with spikes, points, brush inserts, acute angles, labyrinths, etc. are absolutely reliable. Barriers with integrated channels for snail attractants and snail killers or salts or obstacles with creeping mucus-dissolving materials and substances do not offer permanent protection.

One disadvantage of the snail barriers used to date is that they do not guarantee reliable protection against snail damage. As snails can crawl along the downward-facing blade of a knife, they can overcome even the sharpest of barriers. Additional substances such as liquids, poisons, salts, slime-releasing materials and other snail attractants and killers also lose their effectiveness due to environmental influences or wear out over time. Snail barriers used to date have even more disadvantages. Firstly, they are usually difficult to adapt to the shape of the garden bed (e.g. round or oval shape) because they are not flexible enough. Secondly, they are usually relatively complicated in construction. This of course requires a lot of effort to produce.

The invention is based on the task of eliminating the above-mentioned disadvantages of the snail barriers of the types mentioned at the beginning and of creating a bed border that reliably and permanently protects seed and vegetable beds from snail damage, is absolutely flexible and easy to handle and is inexpensive to manufacture. In addition, it should also be commercially available in any length (e.g. as a roll material).

This task is solved in a suitable bed border with a snail roof in that the snail barrier consists of a vertically aligned wall section (1) to which a flexible snail roof (3) is attached. The length ratio of the parts (1) and (3) is chosen so that the end of the snail roof (3) facing away from the bed reaches relatively close to the overgrown ground or the top edge of the grass. Long-term tests have shown that snails, due to a lack of intelligence, tend to reach the overgrown ground rather than overcome the edge of the snail roof (3j). This situation is shown in the drawing of an embodiment of the subject matter of the invention in Figure 1.

The flexibility of the snail roof (3) from claim 2 is ensured by the fact that the snail roof consists of several overlapping surfaces. These surfaces (e.g. triangular surfaces) form a largely closed roof both on the inside and on the outside of the cross section (1). The flexible snail roof (3) can be manufactured in one operation using a simple process. The roof can be manufactured from one part in a continuous process using appropriate devices and cuts. Figure 2 shows the subject matter of the invention in a top view in one embodiment.

The flexible plastic profile (Z) according to claim 3 serves to attach the snail roof (3) to the vertically aligned flat section (1). At the lower end of the plastic profile (2) there is an inner groove which is so narrow that a simple and force-fitting attachment of the profile to the flat section (1) is possible. In the plastic profile (?) there is

There is a widened groove at a certain angle (e.g. 45 ) in which the screw roof (3) is fastened. In Figure 1, the object of the invention is shown in cross section in an embodiment.

The combination of the snail roof (3) and the plastic

&xgr; profile (2) of claim 4 is so flexible that it

also on wave-shaped, vertical wall sections (1)

H . These flower bed borders are available as roll material K are already available in stores. They are used to remove grass and weeds

% to prevent growth into the vegetable patch.

ji Parts (1), (2) and (3) of the worm lock can be

H claim 5 so that they can be used in any length as

^ Roll material can be purchased commercially. This represents

f. not only for the hobby gardener, but also for commercial use?

₍ Vegetable producers a great advantage.

"?■ The bed border with snail roof according to the invention can be produced inexpensively and easily as a roll of material in any length due to its simplicity. Due to its high flexibility, it can be adapted to any bed shape. Simple plug-in connections ensure uncomplicated handling by the customer. The _snail roof can also be plugged onto wave-shaped;*» commercially available bed borders. Since the snail is literally outsmarted with this invention, this snail barrier offers reliable and permanent protection against snail damage without using poison or similar.

Claims (3)

Josef Usselmänfi Bippenujaldstr. 23 8205 Kiefersfelden Tei.i 0&THgr;033/80&Bgr;1 Oipl. Ing. Christian Kaupert Lindenstr. 4 7402 Kirchentellinsfurt Tel.: 07121/6702B6 Flower bed edging with snail roof Protection claims 1. Snail barrier, consisting of a vertically aligned wall section (1) to which a flexible snail roof (3) is attached, which represents a natural barrier for garden snails. 2. Snail barrier according to claim 1, characterized in that the attached snail roof (3) consists of several overlapping surfaces which form a largely closed roof both on the inside and on the outside curves of the wall section (1). 3. Snail barrier according to claim 1, characterized in that the snail roof (3) is attached by means of a flexible plastic profile (2) which can be plugged onto a vertically aligned edge section (1).