Pot for culturing an epiphyte and epiphyte potted therein
AssigneeThomsen sa
InventorGino Van Helleputte
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Abstract
The pot for culturing an epiphyte is integrally injection molded from a transparent plastic. The pot has a bottom, a lower edge, an upper edge and a sidewall extending between the lower edge and the upper edge. The sidewall of the pot is provided with an outwardly protruding lip at the level of the upper edge. A cross section through the sidewall of the pot, tangent to the lower face of the lip, has a substantially hexagonal or octagonal shape. Consequently, the pot, at least at the top, is hexagonal or octagonal, thus allowing more pots to be positioned per unit area compared to a round shape having the same diameter as the diameter of the circumscribed circle of the hexagonal or octagonal shape.
Claims22
A pot for culturing an epiphyte, the pot being integrally injection molded from a transparent plastic, the pot comprising:
- a bottom;
- a lower edge arranged to be supported on a base surface;
- an upper edge;
- and
- a sidewall extending between the lower edge and the upper edge and having an outwardly protruding lip at the level of the upper edge, the bottom joined to the sidewall,
- wherein the pot has a height, measured between the lower edge and the upper edge in a direction perpendicular to the base surface, and a maximum long diagonal, the height being at most 20% larger than the maximum long diagonal,
- wherein an upper cross section through the sidewall of the pot, according to a first cross-sectional plane parallel to the base surface and tangent to the lower face of the protruding lip, has a substantially polygonal shape,
- wherein a lower cross section through the sidewall, according to a second cross-sectional plane parallel to the base surface and tangent to the upper face of the joining of the bottom to the sidewall, has a substantially round shape, and
- wherein the shape of the cross sections of the sidewall, according to cross-sectional planes located one below the other parallel to the base surface, continuously transitions, over the majority of the distance between the first and the second cross-sectional plane, from the substantially polygonal shape to the substantially round shape.
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