Window box planter with tool-free quick set-up and hanging adjustment
OwnerLeon E. Lauxinventor
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Abstract
A plant-holding type window box has wedge-tight spring-lock assembly-securance system providing rapid, tool-less set-up for use and knockdown for shipping or storage; plural hangers incrementally adjust in pre-spaced holes and screw-adjust in depth in coaction with screw adjustable stand-offs to mount the unit securely to all usual building-structure configurations; conveniently large and accessible assembly wedges so-relate visually to the wall members that the wall structure as a whole appears unitary when assembled; economical straight-cut fabrication is employed throughout to hold all edges of two-level plant pot holding structure.
Claims13
In a window box having front, back and end walls, plant holding means, and hanging and standoff means, the improvement comprising:
- at least one of the end walls and plant holding means being between the front and back walls for securance thereto, a member proximate each end of the window box extending horizontally thereacross, means for wedging one end of a said member for supportively drawing the front and back walls toward each other and thereby effecting said securance, the means for wedging including said member having a shank extending through the front and back walls, a wedge, means at the first end of the shank for engagement by the wedge, and mean at the second end of the shank for preventing the shank from being drawn through.
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