Plant husbandry – Receptacle for growing medium – Trellis
Patent
1998-06-09
2000-05-30
Carone, Michael J.
Plant husbandry
Receptacle for growing medium
Trellis
47 44, A01G 912
Patent
active
060677511
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This application is the national phase under 35 U.S.C. .sctn.371 of prior PCT International Application No. PCT/AT 96/00256 which has an International filing date of Dec. 19, 1996 which designated the United States of America, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a plant container comprising a plant-stake fixing device.
2. Description of Related Art
Plant stakes for supporting potted plants are usually put into the planting material, such as into potting soil or, with hydroponics, into a hydro-material. The plant stakes may loosen with time and will then no longer offer reliable support for the plant. This is increasingly the case if the plant grows in a particular direction. The stake may, however, also become loosened when transporting the potted plant and above all outdoors, if the potted plant is exposed to the weather.
To overcome this problem, there have been attempts to attach the plant stakes via cords or wires by means of nails driven into a nearby wall. One of the problems associated with this method is that it will no longer be possible to move or turn the pot plant.
It is known (CH-A-636.748) to fasten a screw clamp to the rim of the plant container, to fix the plant stake with respect to the plant container. A rail departs from the screw clamp that is directed toward the center of the plant container, the rail being urged against the rim of the plant container by means of the screw clamp. The plant stake can be attached by a further screw clamp to the rail.
This known device has the disadvantage in that the plant stake is still able to tilt to the side, since forces acting on the plant stake from the plant may only run in the direction of the rail, to enable them to be passed on into the plant container.
A fixing device for a plant stake by which the forces acting on the plant stake from all directions can be conducted into the plant container is known from CH-A-408.516. In accordance with this document, a carrying device is provided which can be clamped to the rim of the plant container and is equipped with a bracket of tubular construction projecting toward the center of the plant container. A lifting lug can be inserted into this bracket and fixed, with the lifting lug being displaceable against the bracket in the radial direction of the plant container. At its inner end, i.e., at its one end that is directed toward the center of the plant container, this lifting lug carries a sleeve which is closed at its lower end and into which the plant stake can be inserted. The plant stake does not come into contact with the soil of the potted plant, but via the plant stake very great forces are conducted into the bracket which is clampable to the rim of the plant container via the lifting lug, so that the bracket has to be of correspondingly rigid and massive design. This known fixing device for a plant stake is not only very complicated in construction and hence correspondingly expensive to produce, but by its bulky and massive construction will affect the look of the potted plant. Moreover, all of the forces are passed onward to the rim of the plant container exclusively, so that the latter has to resist a very considerable load.
From DE-C-28 35 939 it is known to form a holder for a plant stake integrally with the plant receptacle. But with this construction the plant stake can only be arranged in the region of the rim of the plant receptacle, since otherwise the holder integrated with the plant receptacle would have to project far into the interior of the receptacle, which would, cause difficulties and high costs in the production of the plant receptacle.
According to AT-B-327.598 recesses into which a plant stake can be inserted are provided inside the plant receptacle, on the bottom thereof. Yet, with this method the plant stake must be inserted before filling the plant receptacle with earth. Subsequent mounting is only feasible with difficulty as the recess provided at the bottom of
REFERENCES:
patent: 3165863 (1965-01-01), Duran
Carone Michael J.
Gellner Jeffrey L.
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