Multi-purpose plant dish and saucer therefor.

p0001The invention aims to provide a plant tray, which has many uses, including as to be drawn up separately tray with pedestal, as a standing shell, a hanging shell and in particular as a component of a plant tower by successive provide more such shells. There are flower stands are known which are illustrated and described in the DOS No.. 25 40 038. The flower stand described therein is made of concrete, which be hooked shells made of lightweight concrete, this type is difficult, takes a lot of space and is less suitable for industrial production.

p0002Next is the known in CH Pat. No. 514 979 described and illustrated plant tower, this Bepflanzbehälter made herein without soil, for example, of polystyrene foam, is very bulky, not so well applicable easily vulnerable and as a single shell

p0003It is known the inventor also in CH Pat. No. 582 984 lined and described multipurpose pot with liquid tank for natural gas and hydro crops. This pot has installable suction elements, which also serve as support legs, un put in another bowl, delineate a reservoir. Without trained as supports suction elements of the upper container can be used as a plant pot, but then has the drawback to supply the plants will not be controlled with water.

p0004In contrast to these known arrangements, the invention provides the object to provide a plant tray, which is as hereinbefore versatile. In particular, these trays should be stored in a space-saving manner by interlocking points, allowing by direct succession Make shells on Shell to build a planting storm; in which do not overlap the areas planted the stacked trays and each tray can be watered individually. The whole tower structure to be stabilized by a central holding element and also the shells must be held by fixing elements in the best mutual angular position.

p0005This object is solved by the in claim 1 multipurpose plant tray. An execution example of the invention is explained in detail based on the drawings. In these drawings:<ul><li>FIG. 1 is a plan view of one of the possible floor plans</li><li>2 shows a cross section along the line I -.. I of Figure 1</li><li>Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the plant tray</li><li>Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a pedestal for the shell</li><li>Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the holding rod</li><li>Fig. 6 is a perspective view of Abdeckdrehverschlusses</li><li>Fig. 7 shows a cross section through the assembled with the subset of Plants</li><li>Fig. 8 schematically shows a plan view of two stacked trays with the freestanding planting areas</li><li>FIG. 9 is a plan view corresponding to Fig. 8 with a different plan shape of the bulges The stabilized from UV plast toff, mainly dark brown in color, sprayed in a low wall thickness multipurpose plant tray 1 has several, but at least three, in plan oval, NMDR or polygonal lateral recesses 5, which are connected by flat or convex intermediate parts 6 with each other. The entire wall 5.6 as well as the filler neck 9 are inclined to the outside, that the shells for the purpose of storage rationally can be stacked onto each other, in accordance with the arranged in the center holding sleeve 7 is formed as a tapered cone upwards.</li></ul>

p0006Thanks to the presence of bulges 5 more such Planters, angularly offset against each other, are stacked on each other directly. In the presence of three protrusions 5 of this displacement angle is about 60 °, as shown schematically for two shells 1,1 in the figures 8 and 9. FIG.

p0007The holding sleeve 7 überninmt when stacking a plurality of plant trays by inserting a support rod 18 and fixing an upper operation or Einraamen into the ground, along the lateral stability of this planting storm.

p0008The ribs 12 in the recessed floor reinforcement are always on the right track and dates along with the deposed up cam 13, the stacked Planters 1, to keep in the proper, predetermined mutual angular position, so that the planting areas 25 (Fir. 8.9) ,

p0009By attaching, from bottom to top, conical protruding or re-entrant water overflows 8, the side of the holding sleeve 7 can in a lower portion 15 of the shell, which is filled with expanded clay or is covered to prevent the drop of potting soil with a nonwoven 16, a predetermined water levels are maintained. The filler 9 with the tongue 10 enable the reservoir 15 water supply without affecting the planted potting soil, which allow a more easy and consistent air permeable potting soil and thereby a better growth of the plants.

p0010The plant tray 1 can also be placed individually with the pedestal 2 in the room. This pedestal 2 as pressed seen from the figures 5-7 by means of a holding rod 3 against the bottom of the plant tray so that tray 1 and subset 2 forms a unit. The holding rod 3 has a cross-shaped cross-section and is guided from below through the Phillips 23 in the centrally at the pedestal 2 is arrange kill frustum 22nd To connect the support bar 3 with the sleeve 7 of the plant tray 1 of Abdeckdrehverschluss shown in Figure 6 4, which enables easy removal of shell and subset 2 is used.

p0011One connected to the pedestal 2 shell 1, for example, to pre-planar in Schelenwand holes 14 also by means of three chains are suspended in a Zimner or on the balcony as plant lights.