Flower Pot Supporting Umbrella Means Apparatus

• US 20100107488A1
• Filed: 11/05/2009
• Published: 05/06/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alison Brooke King, Vaughn M. King
• Original Assignee: Alison Brooke King, Vaughn M. King
• Inventors: King, Vaughn M., King, Alison Brooke
• Application Number:
  US12/612,991
• Publication Number:
  US 20100107488A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 47/20.100
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 13/0212 for individual plants, e.g. for plants in pots
• CPC Class Codes: A45B 2025/003 Accessories not covered by groups A45B25/24 - A45B25/30

Abstract

A flower pot apparatus adapted for enveloping the base of an umbrella pole in such a manner as to allow the flower pot apparatus to primarily support the umbrella when the flower pot is filled with plant growth media. The flower pot apparatus when coupled with an umbrella functions to shield the contents of the flower pot from precipitation and direct sunlight as needed to nurture the growth and development of a plant contained therein or to protect such other contents as may be contained therein. The flower pot apparatus when coupled with an umbrella secondarily functions as a household decoration.

Claims

1. A flower pot or planter apparatus comprising:

a vessel having a bottom wall and a perimeter wall being attached to and extending upwardly from said bottom wall, said perimeter wall having an upper edge defining an opening at the top of the vessel; and

means of physical support whereby said vessel may supportively engage an umbrella pole such that the umbrella may stand without need for additional support means.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said means of physical support is a cylindrical hollow shaft extending vertically upward from the bottom wall of the vessel, the cylindrical hollow shaft having an upper edge defining an opening at the top of the shaft.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said means of physical support is a cylindrical hollow shaft extending vertically upward from the bottom wall of the vessel, the cylindrical hollow shaft having an upper edge defining an opening at the top of the shaft, said shaft being between twenty-five (25) and one-hundred (100) percent of the height of the vessel itself.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said means of physical support is a cylindrical hollow shaft extending vertically upward from the bottom wall of the vessel, the cylindrical hollow shaft having an upper edge defining an opening at the top of the shaft, said shaft having on its interior face spiral threaded contour defining a track in which a complimentary and inverse spiral thread contour on the exterior surface of an umbrella pole may be received, supportively engaging the umbrella.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said means of physical support is a cylindrical hollow shaft attached to the exterior face of said perimeter wall, the cylindrical hollow shaft having an upper edge defining an opening at the top of the shaft.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said cylindrical hollow shaft is closed at the lower terminus of said shaft.

7. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said shaft has on its interior face spiral threaded contour defining a track in which a complimentary and inverse spiral thread contour on the exterior surface of an umbrella pole may be received, supportively engaging the umbrella.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said means of physical support is a band composed of a strong and rigid material featuring a plurality of eyelets in series attached about the circumference of said perimeter wall.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said band is attached to the exterior face of said perimeter wall and the plurality of eyelets in series extend outwardly from said band and said perimeter wall.

10. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said band is attached to the interior face of said perimeter wall and the plurality of eyelets in series extend inwardly from said band and said perimeter wall.

11. An umbrella stand device for use in tandem with a flower pot or planter, said device comprising a horizontally planar base structure, said base structure able to lay flat in the bottom of a flower pot or planter and having a cylindrical hollow shaft extending vertically upward from the geometric center of the upper surface of the base structure, the cylindrical hollow shaft having an upper edge defining an opening at the top of the shaft.

12. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the horizontally planar base structure is circular, having a diameter between two (2) inches and forty-five (45) inches.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the horizontally planar base structure is rectangular, having a width or length between two (2) inches and forty-five (45) inches.