GB2490001A

GB2490001A - Connectable plant pots having means allowing pots to be joined together

Info

Publication number: GB2490001A
Application number: GB1200739.9A
Authority: GB
Inventors: David Andrew Holt
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2011-04-13
Filing date: 2012-01-17
Publication date: 2012-10-17
Also published as: GB201106221D0; GB201200739D0

Abstract

The connectable plant pots comprise a plurality of connecting members 1, 2 to allow one plant pot to be connected to at least one similar plant pot. The connecting members are in the form of male 2 and female 1 members. The member 2 is in the form of a partial ball and the female member in the form of a socket or channel which may be elongated in the vertical direction. This allows the ball to slide within the socket allowing the plant pots to swivel or pivot in relation to each other and for them to be positioned at different heights. The base of the pots is chamfered and has a small surface area. The connection means allows the pots to be constructed along uneven or unlevel ground as well as sloping surfaces.

Description

The Plov Plant Pot (Adjustable Plant Pot Chain Assembly)

Description

The invention relates to a product design for a plant pot; the Adjustable Plant Pot Chain Assembly.

Conventional pots are often restricted to flat and level ground surfaces and are usually restricted to singular units. This limits them to occupying only flat areas' deemed suitable contained within the home or outside, for example the garden or allotment.

Conventional plant pot designs are normally intended to function as a singular entity occupying a defined area, for instance, being positioned near a doorway or in front of a garden wall, thus bringing few structural and functional benefits to the immediate surrounding area. A meaningful ordered plant pot formation (multiple pots positioned around one another) can be difficult to achieve for conventional flat-bottom planters if these conventional plant pots are placed on uneven ground, especially when the ground has a distinct gradient. If placed on unlevel ground, these conventional pot designs either stand balancing in an unstable position and therefore risk simply falling over. These uneven I unlevel ground areas are disadvantageous to these conventional plant pot designs, as they cannot be stood upright in the correct manor, as their design was originally intended for.

This plant pot design invention addresses current shortfalls (as stated above) in conventional plant pot designs (those planter containers with flat-bottoms). The Adjustable Plant Pot Chain Assembly has the ability to be used in both internal and external spaces at an optimum amount, whilst creating meaningfully ordered coflective formations. These formations can then enable the creation elaborate structures to occupy an identified area.

This invention creates new uses for previously unsuitable areas for potting. For instance, dividing or allocating garden space for new planting arrangements, such as, splitting space between functional areas (such as vegetable garden locations) and vocational areas (such as garden lawn locations) or by simply positioning linked pots together which follow parallel to a garden path. These formations include making temporary boundaries within an area such as, separating paved, gravelled and grassed areas within a garden.

The exceptional ability for this plant pot invention to be located on to challenging I difficult surfaces provides the user with the option of creating a arrangement within a garden (such as patterns, garden boundaries and other planting structures) in locations where conventional plant potting methods cannot be achieved at ground level.

This invention enables a wide range of capabilities (unlike the conventional plant pot design) by being able to be positioned on uneven I unlevel ground. The invention overcomes this by having a small surface base area which limits ground level influence on how the invention is levelled once in location. The invention also uses the support of additional modular units to create a collective supportive structure.

Individual plant pot units (within the Adjustable Plant Pot ChaTh Assembly) are designed to be filled with soil, followed by planting either seedlings or plants separately into the soil in the pot. Once filled, these plant pots can then be linked together based on the users' desired configuration combinations within a specific ground level environment.

Due to the unique fixing mechanism incorporated into the design and the chamfered sides, the aesthetic appearance is distinctive thus differentiating the product invention from other conventional plant pot designs.

The invention will now be described solely by way of example and with reference to the accompanying drawings and visuals presenting how the Adjustable Plant Pot Chain Assemb)y works both as a singular entity, and as part of a combined set of units: Drawing I of 8, the drawing shows the single plant pot unit invention in both top, bottom, side and side cross-section elevations. The top elevation illustrates the formation of male (x2) and female (x2) ball and socket jigsaw style attachment mechanisms. The cross-section side elevation illustrates the slide female slide mechanism for a male attachment from another plant pot unit to connect to.

Drawing 2 of 8, the drawing shows the various formations and combinations that can be achieved connecting multiple plant pot units together. Formation 1 (a) & (b) shows a triple arrangement. Formation 2 (a) & (b) shows a quad arrangement. Formation 3 shows a jigsaw style formation chain. Formation 4 Ulustrates the unique ability for this plant pot invention to move upwards and downwards alternately to allow flexibility on uneven ground (as per

stated in the above invention description).

Drawing 3 of 8, illustrates the unique joining mechanisms (as per stated in the above invention description) which has been incorporated into the plant pot design. This joining mechanism gives two or more connected plant pots the ability to move around by using the semi-circle sliding channel (female connection) which is semi-submerged in both sides of the plant pot unit. The male mechanism (semi-circle ball style fixing) is slid down the female mechanism to form a temporary joint. The drawing illustrates how these two mechanisms come together to form a temporary joint.

Drawing 4 of B shows a collective group of alternative plant pot combinations.

Drawing S of & shows a quad formation assembly.

Drawing 6 of 8 shows a triple formation assembly.

Drawing 7 of 8 shows a chain link formation assembly.

Drawing 8 of 8 shows alternating slide heights between each plant pot unit.

Claims

Claims I This plant pot invention has chamfered sides curving towards a narrow base which makes this plant pot design unstable to stand upright on its own.
2. Due to chamfered sides (as staled in claim 1) this plant pot invention cannot function as a plant pot container unless there are more than three plant pots connected to one another thus creating a mutually supportive structure for plant pots to collectively stand upright on their own with the help of one another.
3. This plant pot invention has jigsaw-piece inspired pivot and ball mechanical attachments incorporated into each pot which are in the form of two male and two female attachment mechanisms that enable two or more units to be attached together.
4. This plant pot invention has both male and female attachment mechanisms (as stated in claim 3) which enable the plant pot to swivel either left or right, upwards or downwards, whilst sliding up or down.
5. This plant pot invention allows pots to be connected using the jigsaw style pivot ball mechanism (as stated in claim 4) to be statically positioned along ground that has either concave or convex contour features.
6. This plant pot invention is designed with chamfered edges (as per stated in claim I and 2) to allow the plant pot to pivot upwards and downwards.
7. This plant pot invention is designed to allow the creative formation of plant pot configurations to be constructed along uneven or unlevel ground surfaces as well as surfaces which have an acute gradient.