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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 03, 1997
Timothy L Lancaster, Evansville, TN (US);
North American Green, Inc., Evansville, IN (US);
Abstract
A reinforced composite matting is disclosed, to provide a foundation for the development of vegetation to stabilize the channel surface, as a cost effective and environmentally friendly alternative to rip rap or concrete channel lining. The reinforced composite matting is formed of a bottom netting, a cuspated netting having ridges and troughs extending across the width of the cuspated netting, with the troughs substantially adacent to the bottom netting, and a top netting substantially adacent to the ridges of the cuspated netting. A fiber matrix, preferably of strands of coconut fibers is disbursed between the bottom netting and the cuspated netting, and the bottom netting, fiber matrix, cuspated netting and top netting are secured together, preferably with thread, to form the reinforced composite matting of this invention.