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The invention is concerned with a plant pot formed of concrete or
other settable material as a monolithic, upwardly open hollow body with poly-
gonal outline and essentially smooth outer surfaces.
Plant pots from concrete of various forms and styles are known.
They generally have a rectangular or round cross-section and are, depending
on size, of different weights. With larger plant pots, it is known to build
them on several frameworks by depositing in layers, whereby also variations
in configuration are possible.
It is the problem of the invention to find a structure for mono-
lithic plant pots which consist of a single part, which are easily made, and
which do not have too great material consumption and consequently are not too
heavy and which, in spite of these limitations, are aesthetically pleasing
and make a great variability in an area possible, especially through the
possibility of collecting several such plant pots in a group.
Accordingly, the invention provides a plant pot comprising a mono-
lithic structure formed of concrete or similar settable material, said pot
having therein a cavity of circular cross-section opening at the top, the
exterior of said pot adjacent the middle horizontal plane thereof having a
generally hexagonal configuration, the upper and lower outside edges of said
pot being rounded off, and including means at the interior of the pot to
receive a transporting device.
Thus, the invention solves the above problem by a plant pot which
has, first of allJ a specific form of the shape of a hexagon in outline, with
hollow space which is circular in cross-section and with the upper and lower
exterior of the pot rolmded off toward the top and bottom. This rounding off
preferably reaches approximately to the horizontal middle plane of the plant
pot at the edges of the hexagonal structure.
The outer surfaces of the plant pot are approximately slightly
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sloped in opposite directions towards the horizontal middle plane. In the
outer surface, in the area of ~he horizontal middle plane, an annular groove
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can be provided. The hollow space inside the p]ant pot is appropriately~
according to the style, formed as an inverted truncated cone.
The plant pots of the invention have the advantage of an especially
compact and variety rich exterior form which can readily be constructed of
concrete. The outer edges are essentially rounded off so that they are
largely insensitive against damage. Through the combination of the hexa-
gonal form with the rounded edges and with the hollow interior o~ round
cross-sectional shape, material and weight are economized and nevertheless
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a form agreeable to the eye is attained.
Through the special construction of the plant pot, the further
possibility exists that several of these kind of pots may be arranged in
various dispositions with respect to one another, whereby at least an optical
blending of the individual pots is produced according to the proportion of
height to breadth or the proportion of rounding off of the individual pots
which produces elliptical or circular outer surfaces.
Especially interesting groupings are produced if pots made according
to the invention, are employed in different size arrangements. Thus, it is
suitable to graduate the sizes according to a pattern, for example, with once,
twice~ three times, etc., the length of a side.
In the inner wall of the plant pots, provision can be made for
applying a transporting apparatus. Thus~ recesses may be arranged in two
diametrical opposite places for the application of a transporting girder.
The advantages of these measures lie above all in that the
transporting device can be inserted without the places on which the device is
; fastened appearing on the outside.
The invention will be further explained below with the aid of the
exemplified embodiments shown in the drawing, wherein:
- Figure 1 is a three-quarter view of a plant pot;
Figure 2 is a plan view thereof;
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igure 3 is a cross-sectional view ~aken on line III - III of
Figure 2;
Figure 4 is a cross-sectional view taken on line IV - IV of
Figure 2; and
Figure 5 is a plan view of a group of differently sized plant pots
of the invention.
Referring now to the drawings~ plant pot 1 is a monolithic~
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hollow body open at the top, made of concrete or other settable material, as,
for example, asbestos cement. It has, in outline, the form of a regular
hexagon (Figure 2). A hollow space 2 in the interior of the pot formed of
circular outline serves as the plant space for the reception of a cultivating
substrate. It has the form of an inverted frustocone~ a sloping inner wall
3 and a bottom 4 which is ~omewhat sunken at the center part. In the center
of the bottom 4, a threaded socket 5 is formed in which a pipe riser 6, for
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limiting the height of the water level~ can be screwed in.
From the inner wall 3, recesses 7 are provided on opposite sides
of the body of the plant pot 1, in which a transport girder (not shown) can
'i be inserted. By means of the transport girder, the plant pot 1 can be shifted
wlth the aid of a conventional lifting appliance.
The plant pot 1 is rounded off on the exterior at the upper edge
8 and at the lower edge 9. In the area of the edges of the hexagonal sides
10, the rounding off reaches up to the area of the middle plane X-X of the
plant pot 1, as is indicated by Figures 3 and 4. The plant pot 1 thus attains
a shape approximating that of a hexagonal nut. According to the proportion
of the lateral length of the hexagon to the height of the plant pot 1 and to
, the extent of the rounding off the remaining outer surfaces 11 are eliptical
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~ The outer surfaces 11 are divided in the area of ~he horizontal
i middle plane by a groove 12. The sur~aces 11' and 11" lying above and below
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the groove 12 slope slightly away from the middle plane X-X (see Figure 4).
An illustration of the arrangement of such plant pots is shown in
Figure 5 in plan view. Here, three different size types A, B, & C~ of plant
pots are shown which are assembled to an irregular group. In these, the
proportionate sizes have a definite relation to one another. Thus, the
lateral length of the largest plant pot A amounts to twice that of the inter-
mediate plant pot B and thrice that of the smallest plant pot C. Through
the geometrically similar outline form, the individual plant pots can be
set up in a space as a mosaic to ones liking.
The plant pots of the invention are first of all chosen and filled
with soil or the like and planted with flowers, shrubs, trees, or the like.
At the same time~ transportable plant substitutes from plastic, wire baskets
or the like find use, which receive the soil and can be exchanged without
transporting the plant pots themselves.
The pots can also be used in various other ways, e.g. as well
troughs, being provided with covers of wood or plastic, shaped as seating
accommodations or with attached seats. By virtue of its hexagonal structure,
a series of pots arranged one after the other, can be provided, e.g. for de-
marking of footpaths and traffic areas, without producing boredom, since the
side surfaces are always interrupted. When the plant pots do not stand side
by side, they can be connected by rails, chains, ropes, or the like, as a
barrier.
