公开(公告)号：US4327521A

公开(公告)日：1982-05-04

申请号：US200258

申请日：1980-10-23

申请人： Stanley I. Mason, Jr. ,  H. William Scheld

发明人： Stanley I. Mason, Jr. ,  H. William Scheld

IPC分类号： A01D46/04 ,  A01G7/00 ,  A01G1/00 ,  A01D55/00

CPC分类号： A01G7/00 ,  A01D46/04

摘要： A system for growing and harvesting perennial, hedge-type, harvestable plants is provided which permits greater utilization of sunlight for photosynthesis, more efficient use of the land, and control of evapotranspiration through wind control. The plants are in rows, running in a substantially east-west direction, and are cut and harvested so that their "sun" surface(s) is not horizontal, but, rather, faces the direction of the sun's rays during the peak growing time of the day throughout the prime growing season of the year. The surface is generally cut to expose a maximum growing surface of the plant to sunlight and in this sense is analogous to solar collectors in solar home or hot water heating systems. The rows of plants are so spaced relative to adjacent rows to permit sunlight to fall on most of the planar surface of the hedge, but such that one row will not cast a dense shadow on a portion of another row. The rows are oriented in a generally east-west direction but specifically, the orientation may be varied to be non-parallel or even perpendicular to the prevailing wind direction in order to preserve water by reducing wind velocity and sheltering the major portion of the transpiring surface. A vehicle is provided for harvesting the upper portions of the plants so that the upper planar surfaces of the portions of the plants remaining after harvesting are at an angle which exposes a maximum surface area of the upper planar surfaces to sunlight during the peak growing time of the day throughout the following growing season.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于种植和收获多年生对冲型可收获植物的系统，其允许更多地利用阳光进行光合作用，更有效地利用土地，以及通过风力控制来控制蒸散量。 这些植物是沿着大致东西方向运行的，被切割并收获，使得它们的“太阳”表面不是水平的，而是在峰值生长时间期间面对太阳光线的方向 在一年的主要生长季节的一天。 表面通常被切割以将植物的最大生长表面暴露于阳光，并且在这个意义上类似于太阳能家庭或热水加热系统中的太阳能收集器。 植物的行相对于相邻的行是如此间隔的，以允许太阳光落在树篱的大部分平面表面上，但是使得一排不会在另一排的一部分上施加致密的阴影。 这些排定向在大致东西方向，但是具体地，取向可以变化为不平行或甚至垂直于主要的风向，以便通过减少风速和遮蔽蒸发表面的主要部分来保存水 。 提供了一种用于收获植物上部的车辆，使得收获后剩余的植物部分的上部平坦表面成角度，其在上述平面的最大表面积暴露于太阳光的峰值生长时间期间 在下一个生长季节的一天。