Lawn repair device and system

This application claims priority to and incorporates by reference in its entirety U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/946,936 filed Jun. 28, 2007. This application is a continuation-in-part of and incorporates by reference in its entirety U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/372,753 filed Mar. 10, 2006 that in turn claims priority to and incorporates by reference in its entirety U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/662,142 filed Mar. 14, 2005. This application is a continuation in part of and incorporates by reference in its entirety International Application PCT/US2006/009215 filed Mar. 10, 2006 that also in turn claims priority to and incorporates by reference in its entirety U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/662,142 filed Mar. 14, 2005. All applications herein incorporated by reference in their entirety.

An embodiment of the present invention relates to a lawn repair device specifically for repairing divots created by golfers.

Divot repair devices have been described by Spring\'s U.S. Pat. No. 6,637,355 that allows the distribution of sand and grass seed mixtures to divot holes in lawns. The device as taught by Spring, however, requires that it be constantly held and is intended for use by professional lawn maintenance people. Furthermore, the Spring device is limited in that it requires a hand grip activation with linkages to an end-flap attachment, the end-flap attachment allowing passage of the sand and seed mixtures to the divots. The end-flap arrangement taught by Spring is prone to spilling the sand and seed mixtures beyond the divots due to a lack of channelization of the sand and seed mixtures.

A lawn repair device and system configured to deliver sand or soil based seed mixtures or other lawn maintenance materials to lawn divots or other lawn defects by tilt activation or piston assist devices that causes the interposing of an aperture beneath a reservoir containing the lawn maintenance materials. The lawn maintenance materials then pass through the aperture and out a channel that aims and confines the lawn maintenance materials to fill a user-selected divot. Other embodiments provide for sand or soil based seed mixtures or lawn maintenance materials having a clod like or agglomerated consistency to be processed through a built-in pulverizing device prior to delivery to the aperture to disrupt any agglomerated or clod like sand or soil based seed mixtures.

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Illustrative and alternative embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the following drawings.

FIG. 1 is an isometric view of a lawn repair device according to an embodiment of the invention in an at rest status;

FIG. 2 is an isometric bottom view of an embodiment of the lawn repair device in an at rest status;

FIG. 3 is an isometric top view of an embodiment of the lawn repair device in an at rest status;

FIG. 4 is another isometric bottom view of an embodiment of the lawn repair device in an at rest status;

FIG. 5 is a side view of an embodiment of the lawn repair device in an at rest status;

FIG. 6 is a side view of an embodiment of the lawn repair device in a deployed status;

FIG. 7 is a side view of an alternate embodiment of the lawn repair device in an at rest status;

FIG. 8 is an isometric view of another alternate embodiment of the lawn repair device in an at rest status;

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