Abstract:
Systems for the construction of a variety of planting configurations are disclosed. Some of the disclosed embodiments may be equally applicable for products such as shelving systems. The systems may include various shaped troughs and support surfaces and various methods of assembling the same. The various components and resulting configurational possibilities disclosed provides the user with functionality and aesthetic possibilities never before available, and is well suited for both commercial and residential applications.
Abstract:
The present invention refers to a holder for individual containers used in the production and growth of plants. It is essentially characterised in that the configuration thereof is a cross formed by at least two arms 2 and 3 connected to each other, each of them being provided with transversal notches 4, 5 and 6 to connect and fix the containers by their edges.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to, a container, multiple arrangements of container and flat/tray pallets, corresponding container/flat/tray/pallet assemblies, an automated pallet assembly/disassembly system, autonomous pallet assembly transfer units, an autonomous pallet assembly transport train, and an integrated automated production system, for use in a horticultural nursery environment for: substantially reducing labor needed to produce; stabilizing of; collecting and shedding broadcast applications to; reflecting desired sunlight to foliage of; reducing root tip heating of; reducing water consumption in growing; reducing wetting of foliage of; controlling excess root growth of; and, reducing weed growth proximal to; spaced potted plants.
Abstract:
A flower box having posts and wall elements connected by first reversible anchoring devices, the wall elements being in turn reversibly associated with at least one corresponding bottom so as to provide, as a whole, full vertical and horizontal flexibility in assembling the flower box.
Abstract:
The extant invention is a portable and modular plant growing system comprising at least one plant growing container, each container having a longitudinally elongated vertical enclosure with at least one perforated platform to support a plant growing medium, and at least one opening proximate to the bottom of the container. The enclosures also have holes to permit water drainage and air circulation. A system is provided for conveniently and economically interconnecting the plant growing containers. This interconnecting system comprises modular, snap together commercially available spacers that cooperatively receive and connect together adjacent plant growing containers.
Abstract:
A plant growing tray comprises a plurality of strips of tray compartments and a foldable portion or pleat connecting two adjacent strips of the tray compartments. The foldable connecting portion is generally a V-groove having a folding line along the bottom of the groove. Two end members are provided optionally at both ends of the foldable V-groove portion. Each tray compartment has an opening on its bottom.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a portable modular drainage system that is attached to a series of cylindrical planting containers. The system comprises a plurality of peaked modules with opposing, convergent curved side walls designed to conform to the curve of a planting container. Between each side wall is a notch which accepts one or more containers and firmly connects the module to the containers. The modules are preferably designed in four distinct shapes, one with quadrature symmetry for connecting four containers at once, one smaller triangular unit which connects three staggered containers, one three-legged unit that connects two containers which are positioned at an edge of a plant farm, and one edge unit designed to connect three staggered containers at the end of three rows. When these modules are appropriately connected to the containers, they effectively drain the water that would otherwise have fallen between the pots directly into the pots. Not only does this system save up to 20% of water that would otherwise be lost between containers but it also prevents unwanted weed and grass growth between the containers by depriving it of water, and helps to prevent the containers from being blown over.
Abstract:
The invention relates to modular elements assembled either by juxtaposition in a single plane or in offset planes, or by superposition with angular displacement. Each modular element is constructed as a hollow right prism driven in or not at one of its ends and whose perpendicular cross-section is star-shaped with several arms inscribed in a circle or in a regular polygon. The arms form tenons alternating with hollow portions forming mortises thus enabling assembly of the modular elements to one another. Each mortise includes at its base two notches enabling assembly by superposition with angular displacement of two modular elements, a graft formed in the lower position of each lateral end of the tenons avoiding any interference in the course of this assembly. The invention can be used for the construction of flower boxes, bins, clisters or any other cellular units.
Abstract:
In a preferred embodiment there are provided a plurality of building units all in a generic common shape in that circumscribing walls of the brick have a high wall at one portion and a low wall at an opposite extreme portion of the circumscribing walls thereof, with each brick having both male and female structures in the nature of an uprightly extending female groove and an uprightly extending male flange of corresponding cross-section, spaced-apart from one another such that spaced-apart portions are connectable to different other building blocks, typically the blocks having four upright walls differing in shape from one another in the definition of rectangular through-spaces, trapezoid through-spaces, squared through-spaces, and the like, the rectangular-space brick planter having a high rearward wall and low forward wall, and similarly the trapezoid-shaped brick planter having a high rearward wall and a low forward wall and the squared brick planters one squared planter being for the right hand corner and the other squared planter being for turning the left hand corners by virtue of these two types differing from one another in the opposite locations of their corresponding female grooves and male flange of each respectively. As a result of these combinations, unique designs may be build including also the decorating of peripheral area such as along a sidewalk and/or side-rail edging to steps between different levels.
Abstract:
A flowerpot having protrusion means and recess means in each of the sides of an angular, upper marginal portion. The protrusion means and recess means on each side are mirror-inverted symmetrical to the vertical center line of the respective side for engaging like protrusion means and recess means in an adjacent flowerpot. Downwardly tapering wall means extend from the upper marginal portion to the base of the pot.