Plant husbandry – Plant supports – Cage
Patent
1997-08-11
1999-06-22
Lavinder, Jack W.
Plant husbandry
Plant supports
Cage
47 47, A01G 1706, A01G 1714
Patent
active
059137282
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention concerns a container that can advantageously be used for staking plants and that is adapted to envelop the plant peripherally, in particular when the latter is in a pot.
The container of the invention comprises at least two coaxial annular members connected together by arms hinged to the members so that said members can be displaced coaxially relative to each other, at the same time as said arms change their orientation, between a folded position in which they are near each other and an extended position in which they are far from each other.
In one embodiment of the invention said arms comprise at least one part and the axial displacement of said members is produced by pivoting or tilting of said arms and rotation of said members relative to each other.
In another embodiment of the invention said arms comprise at least two parts hinged to each other and the axial displacement of said members relative to each other is produced by pivoting or tilting of said arms and translation of said members.
In accordance with the invention, the aforementioned parts of said arms are preferably connected by deformable connecting parts constituting hinges.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention said members and said arms are in one piece and said arms and said members are connected by deformable connecting parts constituting hinges.
In accordance with the invention, said members and said arms preferably have reciprocal holding parts that cooperate when said members are moved into the aforementioned extended position.
In accordance with the invention, the parts of said arms preferably have reciprocal holding parts that cooperate when said members are moved into the aforementioned extended position.
In accordance with the invention, said holding parts preferably comprise projecting parts or bosses which are formed on said members and/or said arms.
In accordance with the invention, said holding parts preferably comprise projecting parts or bosses which are formed on at least one of said parts of said arms.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention said members and said arms and/or said parts of said arms are respectively connected by hinge pins that extend parallel to the planes of said members and perpendicularly to said members and respectively comprise, in the vicinity of said hinge pins, projecting parts that extend parallel to the planes of said members and which are forced one over the other when said members and said arms and/or said parts of said arms move from their folded position to their extended position and/or vice versa, said projecting parts constituting holding parts.
In one variant of the invention, said projecting parts are respectively formed perpendicularly to said hinge pins.
In another variant of the invention, said projecting parts are respectively formed parallel to said hinge pins.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, said members are disposed around and at a distance from each other and said arms extend between these members.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, said members and said arms extend in substantially the same plane in the folded position.
In one embodiment of the invention, one of the members comprises parts enabling it to be coupled to the peripheral wall of a pot.
In accordance with the invention, said coupling parts preferably comprise outwardly deformable parts.
In another embodiment of the invention one of said members is an integral part of the peripheral wall of a pot.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the container is shaped so that it can be molded in the folded position.
The present invention will be better understood from a consideration of the containers for staking plants described by way of non-limiting example and shown in the drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 represents an elevation view of a container of the invention, in the extended position, mounted on a pot;
FIG. 2 represents a top view of the container from FIG. 1 in the folded position;
FIG. 3 represents a view to a larger scale of a hinge of the container from FIG. 1, i
REFERENCES:
patent: 3264783 (1966-08-01), Bayliss
patent: 5179799 (1993-01-01), Hillestad
Bal Patrick Fran.cedilla.ois
Chanet Guy Fran.cedilla.ois
Abbott Yvonne R.
Lavinder Jack W.
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