Portable compost retention unit

Details Portable compost retention unit Portable compost retention unit

1997-09-20

2000-02-01

Pollard, Steven

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220 427, 220493, B65D 600

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060192399

ABSTRACT:
A compost retention unit is provided. The compost retention unit includes mesh retention material secured to a plurality of pivotally interconnected frame structures such that the mesh retention material and the plurality of frame structures can cooperate to retain compost within the unit when the unit is fully assembled upon a generally flat surface. In preferred embodiments, a first frame structure can pivot 180 degrees with respect to a second frame structure when the unit is being assembled. The most preferred retention unit includes three rectangular frame structures, preferably made of four lengths of wooden "two-by-four" or "two-by-six" framing materials, and the mesh retention material is preferably a wire mesh material.

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Author: Crocket, James Underwood Book Title: Crockett's Victory Garden Chapter Title: The Composter, or the Brown Gold Cadillac (pp. 180-183) Publisher: Little, Brown & Co. (1977).

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