Patent ID: 6134833
Filing Date: 2000-10-24
Classification: A01G

Abstract:
A self-regulated automatic watering planter having inner and outer shells which snap together to form an airtight reservoir, said inner shell having annular sidewalls which define a container and a top edge having a flange extending outward from said sidewalls in a direction away from the center of said container, said flange having at least two downward projecting annular deformable plastic ridges defining a channel therebetween defined by inner walls of said annular ridges, said inner walls having annular grooves formed therein and wherein said outer shell has a deformable plastic upper edge having annular beads formed on the inner and outer surfaces thereof in a position to engage said grooves when said inner and outer shells are enagaged, said airtight connection being formed by the interference between between said beads and said grooves.