Apparatus to stop damage from Frozen Ground and expanding Ice

Abstract

This Apparatus to stop damage from Frozen Ground and expanding Ice is to be used to protect property that could be damage from ground and water when it freezes. As ground and water freezes it expands, and when it thaws and refreezes it expands more this causes damage to property. On ground that freezes it expands with great force that can crush rock, this force will lift, crack, brake, crush, and push in walls. Likewise when water freezes it expands and causes great damage, this can be seen around lakes that people have landscaped and in the spring they have to fix it or redo it all over. This invention is used to stop damage from frozen ground and ice by creating a brake line in the frozen ground and ice causing a week spot and redirecting the energy instead of pushing in a straight line this invention will cause the energy upward where the expanding ground or ice would pile up, and stops the expanding energy from damaging property. This invention may be made of any type of materials that would be smooth or slippery on at least one side. It may be held in place with bracing that may change to fit the different materials the main body is made of, such as what is required by the Department of Natural Resource or other state or government department.

1 . The Apparatus to protect from Frozen Ground and Ice is used to protect your property from damage from frozen ground and ice that would expand and do damage to property 
     
     
         2 . The apparatus of  claim 1  can be used in the water off shorelines to prevent ice in the lake from damaging the shoreline or other property needing protection. 
     
     
         3 . The apparatus of  claim 2  is suspended off shore to create a weak brake line in the expanding ice causing it to push up and pile on the ice and not damage the shorelines. 
     
     
         4 . The apparatus of  claim 2 . is suspended by the floats and stakes and other bracing that will hold the body of the invention in place till the ice forms.
 Also the apparatus in  claim 4  can be suspended or held in place by the stakes and brackets not pictured in the drawings that would hold the body of the invention.   
     
     
         5 . The apparatus of  claim 2 . can be used in deep water or off shore protection from shifting and moving ice. 
     
     
         6 . The apparatus of  claim 1 . can be used in the ground by baring it in the ground at the high water mark allowing the ground on the lake side to push up thus protecting the shoreline. 
     
     
         7 . The apparatus of  claim 1 . can be used in the ground and around to protect other things like buildings or other platforms that can be damage from expanding frozen ground. 
     
     
         8 . The apparatus of  claim 7 . would be used around a building to protect its basement walls from frozen ground that would push in on the walls causing damage to it. 
     
     
         9 . The apparatus of  claim 7 . could be used around floating slabs of a building or patio to keep frozen ground from damaging it. 
     
     
         10 . The apparatus showing in  FIG. 7  shows a drawing of a simple design that can be in place after the ice forms by cutting a slot in the ice with a chain saw than just slide the  1  main body in the slot and staking it down through the stake hole  2 . This would leave just the top of the  1  mane body and the  3  float the only part of the invention seen above the ice. And when used on ground it would have the same exposure. 
     
     
         11 . The apparatus to protect from Frozen Ground and Ice in  claims 1 . though  10 . works by the main body of the invention placed in the ground or ice at a angle causing a weak spot for the frozen ground and ice allowing the ground and ice to move up when it expands to stop its damaging power. 
     
     
         12 . The apparatus to protect from Frozen Ground and Ice of  claims 1 . through  10 . explains the placement of the main body of the invention and how the main body is held in place whether in the ground or suspended in the water until it freezes or on frozen ice, and due to different materials change. As time goes on the support may change from vertical to horizontal to cross bracing, but the principal of the invention will remain the same where the main body causes a weak spot in the frozen ground and ice to prevent damage.