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US 5,345,714 AGranted
Plant separation device
OwnerJohn W. Washingtoninventor
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Abstract
A mounting plate having a central shaft fixedly and coaxially mounted to the shaft is arranged for reception within a pot member and with the mounting plate positioned on the pot floor spaced therefrom by a plurality of support feet. In this manner, the central shaft may be manually grasped for the lifting of the mounting plate from the pot effecting separation of a plant positioned upon the mounting plate from the associated pot.
Claims5
A plant separation device for reception within a planting pot, wherein the device comprises,
- a mounting plate, the mounting plate having a top wall spaced from a bottom wall, with the mounting plate including a matrix of apertures directed through the mounting plate extending from the top wall through the bottom wall, and
- a shaft member fixedly and orthogonally mounted to the top wall medially of the mounting plate, and
- the mounting plate includes a peripheral side wall of a truncated conical configuration, wherein the top wall is of a first diameter, the bottom wall of a second diameter, with the second diameter greater than the first diameter permitting ease of extraction of the mounting plate relative to the planting pot, and
- the bottom wall includes a plurality of support feet fixedly mounted to the bottom wall arranged to space the mounting plate bottom wall from a planting pot floor of the planting pot.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.