Patent ID: 6393764
Filing Date: 2002-05-28
Classification: A01G

Abstract:
A planter unit for agricultural/horticultural uses, said unit comprising:a) a four-sided box-like body having a pair of opposing side walls and a pair of opposing end walls, open at the top and bottom, said side and end walls meeting at four corners; b) four, elongated comer posts extending along parallel axes, a respective one of said comer posts being positioned within said walls at each of said four corners of said body with one of each of said side and end walls affixed to each of said comer posts, said side and end walls having upper and lower edges in common first and second planes, respectively; c) said corner posts having upper surfaces in a common, third plane, parallel to and spaced downwardly from said first plane, within said body, and lower surfaces in a common fourth plane, parallel to and spaced downwardly from said second plane, outside said body; and d) at least one clip affixed to a vertical side of each of said corner posts and extending from an upper end within said body, through said fourth plane, laterally adjacent said lower surface, to a lower end below said fourth plane, outside said body; e) a dolly unit having a flat sheet member with upper and lower surfaces, a plurality of wheel means mounted to said lower surface, and support means connected to said sheet member, at least portions of said support means being positioned outwardly of said sheet member in a plane parallel to and below said sheet member upper surface for placement of at least two of said side and end wall lower edges upon said support means, said sheet member dimensioned to fit closely within and surrounded by said side and end walls and having a rectangular periphery with cut-out corners, the portions of said comer posts extending downwardly below said second plane positioned in said cut-out corners of said sheet member.