Planting pot display system
A planting pot system is provided. In the system, a multi-compartment tray that contains compartments that have either no vertical planes of symmetry or only one vertical plane of symmetry causes pots that have either one vertical plane of symmetry or no vertical planes of symmetry to be limited or precluded from being rotated and consistently urged into a place in only one orientation. Through this system efficient and effective orienting of and displaying of the contents of the pots may be achieved.
1. A planting pot display system comprising:
(a) a plurality of pots, wherein each pot has a bottom portion and a body portion, wherein the body portion has an outer shape and each pot has no more than one vertical plane of symmetry; and
(b) a multi-compartment tray having a plurality of compartments that each have no more than one vertical plane of symmetry and wherein each compartment has an inner shape, at least one pot is located within a compartment of said tray and is rotatable within said compartment, and said compartment has sides that form a physical barrier that prevents rotation of said pot within a specified range in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction, wherein each compartment has a first height and a second height, wherein the first height is the height of a lowest side of the compartment and the first height is the height of the compartment closest to the exterior perimeter of the tray and the second height is the height of the highest side of the compartment and is the height of the compartment farthest from the exterior perimeter of the tray,
wherein the range of rotation is from 1 to about 30 degrees in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein each pot has one vertical plane of symmetry.
3. The system of claim 2 , wherein each compartment has one vertical plane of symmetry.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein each pot has no vertical planes of symmetry.
5. The system of claim 4 , wherein each compartment has no vertical planes of symmetry.
6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the multi-compartment tray has at least six compartments.
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the shape of at least the lower twenty percent of at least one compartment is substantially similar to a part of the outer shape of the pot, thereby permitting the pot to nest in the compartment.
8. The system of claim 1 , wherein each pot has sides that are a uniform height.
9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the sides of the pot are from 0 to 10 mm from the sides of the compartment.
10. The system of claim 1 , wherein each of said compartments has a compartment base and each of said pots has a pot base, and the base of each compartment has a first three dimensional contour and the base of each pot has a second three dimensional contour, wherein said first three dimensional contour has at least one raised element and said second three dimensional contour has at least one recessed element, wherein the at least one raised element of the first three dimensional contour and the at least one recessed element of the second three dimensional contour may be coupled.
11. The system of claim 1 , wherein each pot contains a label and said label is oriented toward the outer perimeter of the tray.
12. The system of claim 1 , wherein said physical barrier prevents rotation of the pot by more than 10 degrees in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction.
13. The system of claim 1 , wherein each pot has sides that form the body portion, and over the range of the sides there is no cross-section that is a circle, a square, an ellipse or a rectangle.
14. The system of claim 13 , wherein each compartment has sides and over the range of the sides there is no cross-section that is a circle, a square, an ellipse or a rectangle.
15. The system of claim 1 , wherein said lowest side of each compartment is at least 20% of that of the pot located in the compartment.
16. The system of claim 15 , wherein said lowest side of each compartment is at least 30% of that of the pot located in the compartment.
17. The system of claim 16 , wherein said lowest side of each compartment is at least 50% of that of the pot located in the compartment.
18. The system of claim 1 , wherein there are at least four compartments, and the plurality of compartments are arranged in at least two rows.
19. The system of claim 1 , wherein the physical barrier prevents the pot from rotating by more than about 1 degree, in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction.
20. The system of claim 1 , wherein the physical barrier prevents the pot from rotating by more than about 2 degrees, in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction.
21. The system of claim 1 , wherein the physical barrier prevents the pot from rotating by more than about 3 degrees, in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction.
22. The system of claim 1 , wherein the physical barrier prevents the pot from rotating by more than about 4 degrees, in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction.
23. The system of claim 1 , wherein the physical barrier prevents the pot from rotating by more than about 5 degrees, in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction.
24. The system of claim 1 , wherein the physical barrier prevents the pot from rotating by more than about 20 degrees, in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction.
25. The system of claim 1 , wherein the physical barrier prevents the pot from rotating by more than about 25 degrees, in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction.