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AssigneesSekisui Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha Hayashi Zoen
InventorsTsugio Nakamura, Seigo Aizaki, Kosei Hayashi
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A molded synthetic resin nursery box B comprises a grid member 2 dividing the box into individual compartments 3 communicating with each other through side wall apertures 23. A wavy bottom plate 12 of the box has drainage holes 13 therein, and the grid member side walls are notched at their top edges. Adjacent boxes are connected by engaging projections 4 on one box with mating slots 5 on another box. The planted boxes may be installed on a horizontal surface whereby the grid members bear the weight of a person walking thereon to prevent trampling and plant damage, or vertically by mounting the boxes in assembled, stacked frames 100 filled with soil. Alternatively, the grid members may be made separate from the bottom plate and side wall 11 bases, and snap-connected to pedestals 14 upstanding from the bottom plates after planting.
A plant nursery box for permanently planting lawn grasses or the like and for protecting the plants from trampling due to people walking thereon comprising a base housing defined by four side walls and an apertured bottom plate, said apertured bottom plate having a wavy configuration, said sidewalls having interlocking means for selectively securing together a plurality of said nursery boxes, a grid member integrally formed with said base housing, said grid member comprising a plurality of intersecting wall members disposed within the base housing and defining a plurality of rectangular compartments therein with the maximum wave height of said bottom plate being midway between two of the parallel walls defining a compartment, each of said wall members defining each compartment having at least one elongated, vertical slot in the bottom edge thereof and notches in the upper edge thereof at each compartment site, whereby plant root structures below the soil and plant growth above the soil in each compartment may communicate between adjacent compartments, said compartments being sufficiently small to prevent a person's foot from entering thereinto and said integrally formed grid member and base housing having sufficient mechanical strength to support a person's weight.
The combination of a plurality of plant nursery boxes for permanently planting lawn grasses or the like and a frame structure for supporting and mounting the nursery boxes, each of said plant nursery boxes comprising a base housing defined by four side walls and an apertured bottom plate, said apertured bottom plate having a wavy configuration, a grid member integrally formed with said base housing, said grid member comprising a plurality of intersecting wall members disposed within the base housing and defining a plurality of rectangular compartments therein with the maximum wave height of said bottom plate being midway between two of the parallel walls defining a compartment, each of said wall members defining each compartment having at least one elongated, vertical slot in the bottom edge thereof and notches in the upper edge thereof at each compartment site, whereby plant root structures below the soil and plant growth above the soil in each compartment may communicate between adjacent compartments, said frame structure comprising a pair of oppositely disposed end plates having inwardly inclined sides, a first pair of spaced, parallel bar members joining the opposite upper corners of the end plates and defining an elongated watering space therebetween, a second pair of spaced, parallel bar members joining the opposite lower corners of the end plates and defining an elongated drainage space therebetween, and means to matingly receive and mount said plurality of nursery boxes on each side of the frame structure in the space defined by an upper first bar member, a lower second bar member, and the inclined opposite sides of the end plates.
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