Patents Assigned to Trentcom APS PTY LTD
  • Publication number: 20100236144
    Abstract: A container for seedlings to be grown by the air root pruning method is moulded as a flat plastic blank with walls hinged for folding and base hinged to one of the walls permitting the container to be erected by engaging the walls and the base and attaching one wall to another. The erected containers stand in a tray like carrier and are connected together by a tie which overlies the containers. A handle extends through the tie to engage the carrier allowing a group of containers to be handled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: TRENTCOM APS PTY. LTD.
    Inventor: Peter Lawton
  • Patent number: 6904715
    Abstract: A panel (10) for use as a side wall of a plant growth container is disclosed. In one embodiment the panel (10) comprises an elongate cuspated sheet (11) having apertures formed in at least some of the outwardly projecting cusps to facilitate air root pruning of the root structure of a plant grown within the container. The sheet (11) includes a non-cuspated edge section (12), the non-cuspated edge section (12) being co-operable with a complementary edge section (13) of the same sheet (11) or of an adjacent sheet. The co-operable edge sections (12, 13) form a guideway for holding means (32), the holding means (32) passing along the guideway releasably hold the edge sections (12, 13) in use form a side wall of the container. A plant growth container having at least one panel (10) as described is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Trentcom APS PTY LTD
    Inventor: Peter A. Lawton