Plant support

Upright plant-support means for use with peripheral apertured rim portions of flower pots and other plant-growing vessels, comprising the subcombination of:

• (a) an elongated mast having a longitudinal axis, adaptable for disposition with said axis in a generally vertical manner in conjunction with a plant-growing vessel;
• (b) said mast having a lowermost end provided adjacent thereto with a pair of cross-disposed apertures each formed through said mast transverse to its length in relatively close but axially spaced relation at generally right angles to each other;
• (c) a pair of elongated, mast-supporting rods for respectively traversing said cross-disposed apertures of said mast in close-fitting slidable relation, for stabilizing said mast in vertically supported relation to said rods;
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• (d) said pair of rods adapted for assembly both with said mast and vessel and respectively being of at least vessel-rim-chord-spanning length for generally horizontally spanning across and operatively friction-fit mounting in alignable apertures formed in selectively predeterminable rim portions of said vessel including pairs in both diametrically and nondiametrically aligned disposition.

For use in operative combination with peripheral rim portions of plant-growing pots and vessels, said rim portions being generally vertically extending with said apertures extending transversely therethrough, the subcombination of a readily mountable and demountable support device for maintaining plants and flowers in an upright condition, said subcombination device comprising:

• (a) an upright standard-like mast having a lower free end portion;
• (b) mast-stabilizing means comprising a pair of generally horizontally disposed, cross-oriented rods respectively traversing said lower free end portion of said mast through apertures disposed in slightly vertically spaced apart, correspondingly cross-oriented relation, to thereby fixedly orient said mast in substantially perpendicular relation to said crossoriented rods;
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• (c) cooperative mounting means embodied respectively with said cross-oriented rods including separate clamping means for mounting the rods and mast on a vessel's rim;
• said clamping means including a plurality of clamp bodies each having a rod-receiving aperture;
• said clamp bodies being selectively orientable on said vessel rim to provide rod-receiving apertures so as to receive said rods therethrough in the relative manner dictated by the aforesaid cross-oriented, vertically spaced rods.

Plant support means for use with peripheral apertured rim portions of flower pots and other plant-growing vessels said rim portions being generally vertically extending with said apertures extending transversely therethrough, comprising the subcombination of a trellis system including:

• (a) a plurality of elongated masts having upper and lowermost ends, and adaptable for disposition with a longitudinal axis of each in a generally vertical upright manner in conjunction with a plant-growing vessel;
• (b) said plurality of masts including a pair of masts each having at least their lowermost ends provided adjacent thereto with a pair of cross-disposed apertures each formed through each of said masts transverse to its longitudinal length in relatively close but axially spaced relation and at generally right angles to each other,
• (c) pairs of elongated, mast-supporting rods for respectively traversing said cross-disposed apertures of said mast in close-fitting relation, for stabilizing said masts transversely to said rods;
• (d) said pairs of rods adapted for assembly with both said masts and vessel, said rods respectively being of at least vessel-rim-chord-spanning length;
• (e) whereby pairs of said masts are adaptable to be maintained as trellis-like members in their generally vertical and generally parallel manner in conjunction with a plant vessel and wherein said rim-disposed apertures are of elongated horizontal slot form having a slot height essentially equal to the thickness of each cross-disposed rod so as to maintain a friction-fit of the rods in said slot irrespective of the relative position in the slots.

A flower and plant-supporting trellis system adaptable for ready assembly and mounting in operative conjunction with peripheral rim portions of plant-growing pots and vessels, said trellis system comprising:

• (a) a plant vessel having an upstanding peripheral rim provided with plural apertures of elongated horizontal slot form having a slot height essentially equal to the thickness of each cross-disposed rod so as to maintain a friction-fit of the rods in said slots irrespective of the relative position in the slots, in predeterminable location and adapted to house a plant therein;
• (b) at least one pair of elongated masts each having a longitudinal axis and adaptable for generally vertical parallel manner in conjunction with circumferential spaced rim portions of said vessel;
• (c) said masts each having a lowermost end provided with a pair of cross-disposed apertures each formed through said mast transverse to its axial length in close but axially spaced relation and at generally right angles to each other;
• (d) a pair of elongated rods respectively traversing each of said masts through said cross-disposed apertures in close-fitting slidable relationship to stabilize each mast relative to its said pair of rods;
• (e) the rods of said pairs of rods each being of a length to horizontally span selectively predeterminable chord portions of a vessel's rim, and rod end portions engageable with a lightly slidable fit in apertures provided in corresponding relation in said vessel rim;
• (f) whereby said pair of masts are adaptable to be maintained as trellis-like members in a generally vertical and generally parallel manner in conjunction with said plant vessel.