Elbow planter box
AssigneeSuperior Tool & Manufacturing Company
InventorHugo George Engel
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Abstract
Reduced ends of an elbow-like receptacle form flanges for rigid connection to the inside surfaces proximate individual open ends of two trough-like receptacles, for connecting these trough-like receptacles together at an angle, forming a continuous planter or flower box. Provision for extending the length of a section of the planter is also included via a splicer, having a plate with a flange, for rigid connection to the inside surfaces proximate individual open ends of two trough-like receptacles, respectively, abutted together.
Claims7
In a planter box adapted for containing plants, the combination comprising:
- at least two box-like receptacles each having a bottom, opposing sides, an open top, and at least one open end;
- an elbow-like receptacle having an open top, a bottom, two pairs of opposing sides, and two open reduced ends forming flanges and offset from one another at a given angle greater than zero and less than 180.degree., said flanges each being dimensioned for snugly fitting within and being rigidly attached to the sides and bottom of an open end of two individual ones of said box-like receptacles, respectively, thereby connecting said receptacles together at said given angle;
- and end cap means for selectively closing any open ends of said box-like receptacles, and means for connecting said receptacles so that the outside surfaces of said planter box between the end caps have substantially no discontinuities except for those at the bend of the elbow-like receptacle.
A planter box adapted for containing plants, comprising:
- a plurality of trough-like boxes each having a bottom, a pair of opposing side sections, and a pair of opposing open ends;
- internal splicer means for bridgeably and rigidly interconnecting along their widths, the sides and bottoms of at least two of said trough-like boxes at their adjacent open ends and substantially partitioning said trough-like boxes, for extending the length of said planter box;
- box-like elbow means having two non-opposing reduced open ends receivable inside the open ends of two of said trough-like boxes which are at any given angle greater than zero and less than 180.degree. from one-another, rigidly interfilled to and between an individual open end of each one of two of said trough-like boxes, respectively, for coupling said trough-like boxes together at said given angle therebetween, while forming therewith a continuous planter box;
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- end cap means for selectively closing off any open ends of said plurality of trough-like boxes said planter box having substantially no discontinuities between outside surfaces.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.