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OwnerRichard C. Mickelsoninventor
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Abstract
A plant carrier is disclosed herein for holding a plant and its soil which includes an open-ended enclosure having a bottom integrally formed at its peripherial edge with an upwardly projecting continuous sidewall diverging outwardly from the bottom and terminating in a reverse curl so to provide a rounded lip about the top of the sidewall. The bottom further includes a downwardly depending cup-like portion having a plurality of holes or openings formed in the annular sidewall thereof. A dish member carries a plurality of projections detachably engageable with the plurality of openings so that a snap-lock releasable engagement is produced. The cup-like portion and the dish member are provided with a locator system for aligning the snap-lock projections with associated openings.
Claims1
A plant carrier for holding a growing plant and its life supporting soil comprising:
- an enclosure having a circular bottom of a given diameter and an integral sidewall projecting upward and outward from the peripheral edge of said circular bottom;
- said sidewall terminating at its free end in a reverse curled lip having a rounded peripheral edge defining a central opening leading into the interior of said enclosure;
- said bottom having an integrally formed, downwardly depending cup-like portion including an annular wall and a flat bottom of smaller diameter than said given diameter of said enclosure circular bottom;
- a dish-like tray removably carried on said annular wall of said cup-like portion;
- said tray having a predetermined diameter intermediate said diameters of said enclosure bottom and said cup-like portion bottom so that a uniform upwardly tapering sidewall of said enclosure is maintained;
- fluid communicating means interposed between said cup-like portion and said tray whereby fluid may travel therebetween;
- snap-lock means releasably coupling said tray to said cup-like portion;
- said snap-lock means includes a plurality of openings provided in said annular wall in fixed spaced-apart relationship with respect to each other;
- a plurality of projections upwardly and inwardly extending from the bottom of said tray and of lesser diameter than said plurality of openings so that a snap-lock relationship exists when said projections are mated and in registry with said openings;
- said fluid communication means comprises said openings in said annular wall;
- said openings being of larger size than the size of said projections snap-locking with said cup-like portion and said tray for aligning said projections with respect to said openings;
- locator means cooperating between said cup-like portion and said tray for aligning said projections with respect to said snap-lock and drainage openings;
- said locator means includes a center frustro-conical projection extending upwardly from the bottom of said tray;
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- a hole provided in said cup-like portion bottom for insertably receiving said tray upward porjection whereby said tray can be rotated relative to said cup-like portion about said projection inserted in said hole for locating said snap-lock projections with respect to cooperating ones of said snap-lock and drainage openings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.