Stackable modular planter
OwnerRichard Alexander Sabin, Mark Andrew Fleminginventors
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Abstract
A stackable modular planter includes an open top plant box with a base and four side walls adapted to receive a growing medium and plants. The open top plant box has a first width. An irrigation box below the open top plant box base has a second width larger than the first width. The irrigation box can be filled with irrigation fluid. An open top hopper on one side of the open top plant box on top of the irrigation box can receive irrigation fluid which drains into the irrigation box. An overflow drain aperture in the irrigation box lets excess irrigation fluid flow. When a plurality of the stackable modular planters are stacked above another planter, excess irrigation can flow from the overflow aperture into the hopper of the planter below.
Claims19
A stackable modular planter comprising:
- a) an open top plant box having a base, a front wall, a rear wall and two side walls adapted to receive a growing medium and plants, said open top plant box having a first width,
- b) an irrigation box below the open top plant box base and having a second width larger than the first width, said irrigation box adapted to be filled with irrigation fluid,
- c) an open top hopper on one side of the open top plant box on top of the irrigation box, the open top hopper adapted to receive the irrigation fluid which drains into the irrigation box,
- d) an overflow drain aperture in the irrigation box through which excess irrigation fluid can flow, and
- e) a pair of frames, one at each side of the stackable modular planter, said frames being adapted to allow one stackable modular planter to stack directly above another stackable modular planter in a free-standing configuration,
- wherein a depth of the irrigation box from front to rear is less than the depth of the open top box from front to rear, whereby a plant growing from the stackable modular planter directly below can pass in front of the irrigation box of the stackable modular planter directly above;
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- whereby in use, when one stackable modular planter is stacked directly above another stackable modular planter, excess irrigation fluid can flow from the overflow drain aperture into the open top hopper of the stackable modular planter directly below without passing through the open top plant box of the stackable modular planter below.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.