Plant container
AssigneePhillips Petroleum Company
InventorsArthur H. Kay, Ted Dziewulski
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Abstract
An improved container for plants or the like comprising a pot and a tray releasably securable to the bottom of the pot.The pot and tray are provided with snap lock means for connecting the pot and tray which snap lock means includes a plurality of upwardly extending tapered protuberances having undercut portions and extending upwardly from the tray, which protuberances are receivable in corresponding apertures in the bottom portion of the pot, and which snap lock means further includes a plurality of wedge-locking elements carried by the pot and tray which are positioned adjacent the protuberances and apertures.
Claims22
A container for plants or the like comprising:
- a tray having a generally flat bottom portion and a rib upstanding from the bottom portion and interrupted at a plurality of positions;
- a plurality of upwardly extending protuberances extending from the bottom portion of said tray each positioned adjacent an interruption in the rib;
- a pot having a generally flat bottom portion and a downwardly extending rib extending downwardly from the bottom portion of said pot;
- a plurality of generally vertically aligned apertures in said pot each sized and shaped to receive a corresponding protuberance of said tray therethrough;
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- each upwardly extending protuberance having detent means thereon for providing an interference fit with a corresponding generally vertically aligned aperture in said pot so as to releasably connect said pot and said tray.
A container for plants or the like, comprising:
- a tray having a generally flat bottom portion and a rib upstanding from the bottom portion and interrupted at a plurality of positions;
- a pot having a generally flat bottom portion and a downwardly extending rib extending downwardly from the bottom portion of said pot;
- a pair of upstanding walls on the rib of said tray defining an interruption at each of the positions at which said rib of said tray is interrupted, each pair of upstanding walls being disposed respectively on opposite sides of the interruption, each said upstanding wall having a projection thereon and the projections of each pair of upstanding walls extending toward each other from the respective upstanding walls;
- a plurality of generally horizontal walls extending horizontally inwardly from the downwardly extending rib of said pot, each said generally horizontal wall communicating at the innermost end thereof with the bottom portion of said pot via a first generally vertical wall;
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- a pair of generally upwardly extending second generally vertical walls extending generally inwardly along the opposite edges of each said generally horizontal wall intermediate the downwardly extending rib and the respective first generally vertical wall, each upwardly extending second generally vertical wall having a projection thereon with the projections of each pair of upwardly extending second generally vertical walls extending away from each other in opposite directions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.