Flowerpot

Claim 2

A flowerpot adapted for close group arrangement and suitable for breeding purposes and the like, comprising a continuous angular, upper marginal portion having a plurality of generally vertical sides, each of said sides having a substantially vertical center line; downwardly tapering wall means connected to said upper marginal portion; and a base connected to said wall means each of said sides of the upper marginal portion being provided with means forming a protrusion convexly flared toward the pot exterior in a vertical plane cross-section of the pot cut through the protrusion and with means forming a recess concavely flared toward the pot exterior in a vertical plane cross section of the pot through said recess and corresponding in form to said protrusion forming means, the corresponding shapes of recess and protrusion being such that when two such pots are nested the recess of one pot provides a resistance to tilting of the adjacent pot whose corresponding protrusion is nested therein, the arrangement of said protrusion and recess being on all of said sides identical and on each of said sides mirror-inverted symmetrical to said center line of the respective side so that when two such pots are nested in side by side contact at any of their respective walls a bi-lateral tilting resistance is afforded at their respective upper marginal portions.

Claim 3

A flowerpot as defined in claim 1, which consists of uniform thin-section plastic material.

Claim 4

A flowerpot as defined in claim 2, wherein said wall means has at least one step therein, and said step includes at least one internal surface ascending towards the interior of said flowerpot.

Claim 5

A flowerpot adapted for close group arrangement in abutting relationship with adjacent, substantially identical flowerpots and suitable for breeding purposes and the like, comprising a continuous angular, upper marginal portion having a plurality of generally vertical sides, each of said sides having a substantially vertical center line; wall means connected to said upper marginal portion and generally having an inverted frusto-conical shape; and a base connected to said wall means; each of said sides of the upper marginal portion being provided with means forming a protrusion convexly flared toward the pot exterior in a verticle plane cross-section of the pot cut through the protrusion and with means forming a recess concavely flared toward the pot exterior in a vertical plane cross-section of the pot through said recess and corresponding in form to said protrusion forming means, the corresponding shapes of recess and protrusion being such that when two such pots are nested the recess of one pot provides a resistance to tilting of the adjacent pot whose corresponding protrusion is nested therein, the arrangement of said protruding means and recess means being on all of said sides identical and on each of said sides mirror-inverted symmetrical to said center line of the respective side so that when two such pots are nested in side by side contact at any of their respective walls a bi-lateral tilting resistance is afforded at their respective upper marginal portions; each of said protruding means and recess means being shaped so that said first-mentioned flowerpot may be engaged with, and disengaged from, any one of said adjacent flowerpots by laterally moving said first-mentioned flowerpot and said one of the adjacent flowerpots relative to each other substantially horizontally.

Claim 6

A flowerpot adapted for close group arrangement in abutting relationship with adjacent, substantially identical flowerpots and suitable for breeding purposes and the like, comprising a continuous angular, upper marginal portion having a plurality of generally vertical sides, each of said sides having a substantially vertical center line; wall means connected to said upper marginal portion and generally having an inverted frusto-conical shape; and a base connected to said wall means; each of said sides of the upper marginal portion being provided with means forming a protrusion convexly flared toward the pot exterior in a verticle plane cross-section of the pot cut through the protrusion and with means forming a recess concavely flared toward the pot exterior in a vertical plane cross-section of the pot through said recess and corresponding in form to said protrusion forming means, the corresponding shapes of recess and protrusion being such that when two such pots are nested the recess of one pot provides a resistance to tilting of the adjacent pot whose corresponding protrusion is nested therein, the arrangement of said protruding means and recess means being on all of said sides identical and on each of said sides mirror-inverted symmetrical to said center line of the respective side so that when two such pots are nested in side by side contact at any of their respective walls a bi-lateral tilting resistance is afforded at their respective upper marginal portions; each of said protruding means and recess means being shaped so that said first-mentioned flowerpot may be engaged with, and disengaged from, any one of said adjacent flowerpots by laterally moving said first-mentioned flowerpot and said one of the adjacent flowerpots relative to each other substantially horizontally.