Patent Application
20200015431
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The disclosure and prior art relates to support assemblies and more particularly pertains to a new support assembly for facilitating the growing of plants.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a plate and a frame that is octagonally shaped. A net is coupled to and extends inwardly from the frame. A plurality of rods is coupled to and extends between the plate and the frame. Each rod comprises a plurality of nested sections so that the rod is selectively extensible. A plurality of rollers is coupled to a lower surface of the plat. The net is configured to support stems and leaves of a plant that is growing from a container that is positioned on an upper surface of the plate. The rollers are configured to roll on a horizontal surface to selectively position the plate.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
A net 18 is coupled to and extends inwardly from the frame 14, as shown in
A plurality of rods 20 is coupled to and extends between the plate 12 and the frame 14, as shown in
Each of a plurality of couplers 28 is coupled to an associated lower segment 24 proximate to an upper end 32 of the associated lower segment 24. The couplers 28 are compression type so that rotation of an outer ring 30 of the coupler 28 relative to the associated lower segment 24 induces compression of an inner ring 32 of the coupler 28 to couple an associated upper segment 26 to the associated lower segment 24 so that the net 18 is selectively positionable relative to the plate 12, as shown in
Each of a plurality of clamps 38 is coupled to a top end 40 of a respective rod 20, as shown in
A plurality of rollers 42 is coupled to a lower surface 44 of the plate 12, as shown in
In use, each upper segment 26 is selectively extendable from an associated lower segment 24 so that the net 18 is selectively positionable relative to the plate 12. The net 18 is configured to support the stems and the leaves of the plants that grow from the containers that are positioned on the upper surface 16 of the plate 12. The rollers 42 are configured to roll and to rotate on the horizontal surface to selectively position the plate 12.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
