Patent Application
20190380281
The following includes information that may be useful in understanding the present disclosure. It is not an admission that any of the information provided herein is prior art nor material to the presently described or claimed inventions, nor that any publication or document that is specifically or implicitly referenced is prior art.
The present invention relates generally to the field of plant husbandry and more specifically relates to a plant pot.
Generally landscaping plants are initially grown in pots of small dimensions, where they are kept until they reach a certain growth, then being necessary to transplant them to other pots larger or land flowerbeds or gardens, all in order to allow to continue the growth of both the outside and the roots of the plant. With traditional pots, constituted by a container of small dimensions and equipped with hole or drainage openings, when the plant acquires a certain growth and to be transplanted, is necessary to remove the plant from the pot, operation always causes some deterioration in plant, mainly from its roots, and in some cases also requires the destruction of the pot. A suitable and more effective solution is desired.
U.S. Pub. No. 2004/0144027 to Charles Dines relates to a plant starter pot with removable base. The described plant starter pot with removable base includes a plant starter pot having a main body, a base member, and connection means that allows for selective connection of the base member to the main body and selective removal from the main body. A base-removing tool is provided to facilitate removal of the base member from the main body when a plant is suitably mature.
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known plant husbandry art, the present disclosure provides a novel stackable grow pot system. The general purpose of the present disclosure, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a plant pot structured to allow for transplanting of the plant growing within the plant pot without root damage.
A stackable grow pot system is disclosed herein. The stackable grow pot system includes a plant pot having an inner volume, at least one or a plurality of side-walls, and a base including a selectively removeable disc. The plant pot is defined by the inner volume, the base, and the side-wall(s). The selectively removeable disc is configured to be removed to allow plant roots to extend through an aperture. The plant pot further comprises a pull tab plastic seal configured to be removed and expose the plant roots. The plant pot is stackable. When stacked, the plant pot provides for volume expansion for growth of a plant and the plant roots. When the selectively removeable disc is removed, plant roots can extend from a first-plant-pot to a second-plant-pot. The second-plant-pot is a soil filled the plant pot configured to provide additional growth space from the plant growing within the plant pot. The plant pot may be provided in a plurality of sizes/volumes to accommodate a relative size of the plant growing within.
For purposes of summarizing the invention, certain aspects, advantages, and novel features of the invention have been described herein. It is to be understood that not necessarily all such advantages may be achieved in accordance with any one particular embodiment of the invention. Thus, the invention may be embodied or carried out in a manner that achieves or optimizes one advantage or group of advantages as taught herein without necessarily achieving other advantages as may be taught or suggested herein. The features of the invention which are believed to be novel are particularly pointed out and distinctly claimed in the concluding portion of the specification. These and other features, aspects, and advantages of the present invention will become better understood with reference to the following drawings and detailed description.
The figures which accompany the written portion of this specification illustrate embodiments and methods of use for the present disclosure, a stackable grow pot system, constructed and operative according to the teachings of the present disclosure.
The various embodiments of the present invention will hereinafter be described in conjunction with the appended drawings, wherein like designations denote like elements.
As discussed above, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to plant husbandry and more particularly to a stackable grow pot system as used to improve the continued growth of plants.
Generally, the stackable grow pot system is a plant pot having a removable bottom to allow for quick, clean and plant safe transplanting. By simply stacking the plant on top of another soil filled container of the same size it instantly doubles the space that was previously available for root growth. This process causes zero stress on the plant compared to the common method of transplanting from one size pot to a larger one. With the rapid stack there is no mess and no dirty hands. The stackable grow pot system becomes an easy tool to help make transplanting from one size pot to another and easy, mess free, and non-root damaging. The stackable grow pot system provides a way to transplant in seconds. The stackable grow pot system may be provided in various size pots.
The pot has a pull removable plastic seal that keeps the bottom disc attached until removed. When removed the base of the pot is discarded to be recycled and the pot is intact otherwise with exposed roots now visible. The pot can now be placed on a soil ready pot of same size or larger proportion for a quick volume expansion of growth media for the plant that has out grown the current container. The device may be reused if the bottom isn't fully removed.
Referring now more specifically to the drawings by numerals of reference, there is shown in
The embodiments of the invention described herein are exemplary and numerous modifications, variations and rearrangements can be readily envisioned to achieve substantially equivalent results, all of which are intended to be embraced within the spirit and scope of the invention. Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientist, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application.
