US 4,304,068 AGranted

Collapsible terrarium

AssigneeThe Diamond Mind, Inc.

InventorSamuel L. Beder

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Abstract

A collapsible terrarium to be used for maintaining a controlled environment around potted plants and similar objects includes a flexible fluid-impermeable enclosure which has a bottom portion and a top portion, and a support structure which supports the top portion on and upwardly of the bottom portion to bound a compartment therewith. The support structure is collapsible and with it also the enclosure. The enclosure has an access opening through which potted plants can be introduced into and withdrawn from the compartment bounded by the enclosure. The opening is fluid-tightly closeable and, when closed, no fluid interchange takes place between the compartment and the exterior of the enclosure. An aperture, preferably with a one-way valve in it, is provided in the top portion of the enclosure and flowable media, such as herbicides, insecticides or similar agents can be introduced therethrough into the compartment to act on the plants accommodated therein.

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Dependent claims

A collapsible, terrarium for maintaining a controlled environment around house and garden plants, comprising a flexible substantially sealed enclosure of a material that is substantially impermeable to water and water vapor, having a closable access opening and including a floor portion and a top portion;

a collapsible support structure having a mounting member and a plurality of support members mounted on the mounting member for displacement between support and collapsed positions thereof, and contacting the top portion of the enclosure in the support position thereof to support the top portion in and upwardly of the floor of flexible material so that the portions together bound a compartment accessible through the access opening for accommodating the plant therein, means for closing the access opening to mutually separate, and substantially avoid fluid interchange between the compartment and the exterior of the enclosure, and means to actuate said support structure whereby said flexible enclosure is converted from the support position by a single movement of said actuation means.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.