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Title:
GREENING BLOCK FOR RETAINING WALL
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPH11200392
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To maintain landscape and natural environment by attaching a wire netting body to the front open end of a concrete block having a channel-shaped plan view, filling up the inside of the concrete block with a sediment, and growing plants on the whole surfaces of the retaining wall.

A concrete block A as a reigning wall for greening purpose has a stay leg 2 made of a steel bar attached with spacers 3 to the rear panel 1c of a concrete block 1 having a channel-shaped plan view and is constituted by attaching a netting body 4 such as wire net to the open end with bolts 5. This block A is stacked along the slope of natural ground, a slide panel is set along the spacer 3, cobble stone is filled between natural ground and gravel, backfilling concrete is poured between the block A and natural ground, the slide panel is pulled out, and the inside of the block A is filled with sediment. In this way plants grown in the sediment come out of the meshes of the netting body 4 and densely cove the whole of the surface of the retaining wall thereby maintaining landscape and natural environment. Also, the concrete block 1 may have a T-shaped plan view.


Inventors:
MITO TADANORI
Application Number:
JP221598A
Publication Date:
July 27, 1999
Filing Date:
January 08, 1998
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
KYOWA CONCRETE IND CO LTD
International Classes:
E02D29/02; (IPC1-7): E02D29/02
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Tadashi Hamamoto (2 outside)