Protective tree guard

DETAILED DESCRIPTION In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of protective tree guards now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a protective tree guard wherein the same may be compactly stored when not in use and be further easily and efficiently secured about an existing tree during periods of use.
As such, the general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new and improved protective tree guard which has all the advantages of the prior art protective tree guards and none of the disadvantages.
To attain this, the present invention comprises a protective tree guard formed of stretch-type polymeric material to provide a netting formed with knotted or thermoformed intersections to maintain the integrity of the netting and further is provided with right and left perimeter webbing having secured therethrough coacting snap fasteners to secure the side perimeters of the netting about an associated tree.
Further, upper and lower perimeter strands of the netting has secured thereto an adjacent tubular sheath wherein a drawstring is slidingly positioned through the sheath for securement of upper and lower terminal perimeter ends of the netting to position the netting at a predetermined orientation relative to the tree.
My invention resides not in any one of these features per se, but rather in the particular combination of all of them herein disclosed and claimed and it is distinguished from the prior art in this particular combination of all of its structures for the functions specified.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated.
There are, of course, additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto