Plant pot for growing a plant
AssigneeDaicel Corporation
InventorTakeshi Moriwaki
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Abstract
An integrally molded plant pot for growing a plant which has a base portion and a plurality of flap portions connected to the base portion, each having a plurality of perforated penetrating holes. The base portion is surrounded by the flap portions. The flap portions are assembled by means of a clamping portion provided on a side edge thereof. The flap portions are economically designed to be molded in an injection molding machine or the like, so that they can be opened outwardly at a bending portion provided at the bottom surface of the flap portions. The pot has a strength and a flexibility sufficient to make removal of the plant therefrom easy during transplantation from the pot.
Claims12
A pot for growing and transplanting plants comprising:
- an inner base portion having a plurality of holes therethrough;
- a plurality of flap portions adjacent each other flexibly connected to said inner base portion and having a plurality of holes therethrough, each flap portion comprised of:
- a flat outer base portion flexibly connected to said base portion and having a plurality of holes therethrough, and
- a side portion projecting upward from said flat outer base portion and having a plurality of holes therethrough, and
- said flexible connection permitting said flap portions to be flexed outwardly for transplanting;
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- clamping means on said flap portions for holding said flap portions together in a closed position for growing said plant, said inner and outer base portions being coplanar when said pot is in said closed position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.