Stackable flower pot

• US 4,057,931 A
• Filed: 11/20/1974
• Issued: 11/15/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: National Polymers, Inc.
• Original Assignee: National Polymers, Inc.
• Inventors: Anderson, Dennis C., Stutelberg, Kenneth R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Coven, Edward M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Feyrer, James R.
• Application Number:
  US05/525,580
• Time in Patent Office: 1,091 Days
• Field of Search: 47/34, 47/34.13, 47/19, 47/34.12, 47/34.11, 47/66, 47/84, 220/DIG. 6, 220/23.6, 220/380, 220/69, 220/10, 215/10, 206/509, 206/511, 206/503, 206/504, 206/505, 206/519, 206/520, 206/507, 206/514
• US Class Current: 47/83
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 9/023 Multi-tiered planters

Abstract

A molded stackable flower pot provided with an annular rim adjacent the bottom thereof, which supports the pot so that the bottom surface is spaced upwardly from a surface supporting the pot. The rim has a plurality of apertures defined therein positioned so that the apertures will received peripheral upper edge portions of two other similar flower pots so that pots can be supported in a stacked and interlocked relationship to each other.

Claims

1. A flower pot having a side wall with a cylindrical upper edge portion defining an interior opening, and a bottom wall, and means fixedly attached to said flower pot and extending downwardly adjacent the periphery of said bottom wall to provide support members extending parallel to the longitudinal axis thereof for supporting said flower pot on a supporting surface, said support members being spaced apart to define recesses between adjacent support members, said recesses being dimensioned and positioned in relationship to the radius and thickness of the upper edge of said flower pot to adapt said flower pot for being supported by the upper edges of at least two other similar flower pots with at least a separate one of the support members of said first mentioned flower pot extending into the interior of each of two other similar flower pots to prevent said first mentioned flower pot from transversely sliding off the tops of other similar flower pots on which the first mentioned flower pot is supported.

2. The combination as specified in claim 1 wherein the upper edge of the flower pot is circular and has a center axis and the recesses being defined by axially extending side edges of the support members, which edges are spaced so that two separate edges lie within the area bounded by a pair of circles of diameter equal to the diameter of the upper edge of said first mentioned flower pot generally tangent at a point along the center axis, said separate edges being within said circles, respectively, by an amount slightly greater than the thickness of the side wall forming the upper edge of said first mentioned flower pot.

3. The combination as specified in claim 1 wherein the support members are formed as wall portions depending from said side wall adjacent the periphery of the bottom wall of the pot, and wherein the recesses between said wall portions are of length substantially less than the length of the wall portions.

4. The combination as specified in claim 2 wherein the wall portions comprise arcuate wall sections, said recesses being defined between adjacent wall sections and extending upwardly to said bottom wall.

5. The combination as specified in claim 4 wherein there are eight wall sections and eight recesses defined between said wall sections, said recesses being one-half the arcuate length of said wall sections.

6. The combination as specified in claim 4 wherein said first mentioned pot has a part conical upright wall, and said wall sections form extensions of said upright wall extending downwardly adjacent said bottom wall.

7. The combination of claim 1 wherein the pot has a cylindrical wall section adjacent upper end thereof, said cylindrical wall section extending for a height at least equal to the height of said support members.

8. The combination of claim 7 and a reinforcing bead formed at the upper edge of said cylindrical wall section.