GROOVED STACKABLE PANEL FOR FLOATING CULTIVATION OF PLANTS

    公开(公告)号:US20230157222A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-25

    申请号:US18157936

    申请日:2023-01-23

    IPC分类号: A01G9/28 B63B35/44

    CPC分类号: A01G9/28 B63B35/44 A01G9/081

    摘要: Panel for floating cultivation of plants on water, includes parallel grooves at a top side extending longitudinally, adapted for receiving a substrate and a number of plants or precursors in the substrate, each groove extending through the panel from a first top plane to a second parallel plane. The panel includes air chambers at a lower side extending substantially below the second plane, each of the air chambers allowing therein formation of air roots of plants supported in the substrate of the grooves. At the second plane, each groove is spaced apart from the circumferential side wall of the air chamber it debouches in when projected onto a plane normal to the longitudinal direction, each of the grooves including at least two side support surfaces extending parallel to the groove and below the top side, the side support surfaces adapted for substantially completely supporting the substrate in the groove.

    STACKABLE CONTAINERS AND ASSOCIATED METHOD FOR THE TRANSPORT OF PLANTS
    4.
    发明申请
    STACKABLE CONTAINERS AND ASSOCIATED METHOD FOR THE TRANSPORT OF PLANTS 审中-公开
    堆垛容器和相关方法运输植物

    公开(公告)号:US20130213841A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-08-22

    申请号:US13702251

    申请日:2011-05-27

    申请人: David Glenn Ward

    发明人: David Glenn Ward

    IPC分类号: B65D21/02 B65G57/02 B65D19/38

    摘要: A filling and transport system is provided in which containers are filled with potting mix or similar growing medium at a first location and transported as a transport module to a second location where plants are planted in the growing medium within the pot. The transport module used to transport the containers and closures containing the growing medium are arranged in a sandwich-like arrangement between two or more stabilising plates having respective retaining elements for engaging with either the base of the containers or the top surface of the closures to retain the containers in stacked relationship to one another during transportation by forming a stable transport module. Each closure is provided with a former for forming and maintaining a void or cavity in the growing medium, particularly during transportation so that the containers arrive at the growers with a preformed bore for receiving the plants. The advantage of the planting and transport system is that growers of plants can plant containers more efficiently since the containers arrive at the growers containing the growing medium ready for planting which obviates the need for the grower to fill the containers on site and form a void before planting.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种填充和输送系统,其中容器在第一位置填充有灌封混合物或类似的生长介质,并作为运输模块运输到第二位置,其中植物种植在盆内的生长介质中。 用于运输包含生长介质的容器和封闭件的运输模块布置在具有相应保持元件的两个或多个稳定板之间的夹层状布置中,用于与容器的基部或封闭件的顶表面接合以保持 通过形成稳定的运输模块,容器在运输过程中彼此堆叠关系。 每个封闭件设置有用于在生长介质中形成和保持空隙或空腔的成形器,特别是在运输期间,使得容器以预先形成的孔抵达种植者以接收植物。 种植和运输系统的优点是,植物种植者可以更有效地装载容器,因为容器到达含有准备种植的生长介质的种植者,这样可以避免种植者在现场填充容器并形成空隙 种植

    POTTING APPARATUS
    5.
    发明申请
    POTTING APPARATUS 有权
    拍摄装置

    公开(公告)号:US20120285580A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-11-15

    申请号:US13485272

    申请日:2012-05-31

    IPC分类号: B65B3/08

    CPC分类号: A01G9/081

    摘要: A potting apparatus has a first conveyor suitable for receiving a pot thereon, a second conveyor has a surface suitable for receiving soil thereon and having an end positioned so as to deliver soil to the pot on the first conveyor, a drill positioned above the first conveyor so as to be movable upwardly and downwardly relative to the pot on the first conveyor so as to form a hole in the pot, and a driving means cooperative with the first conveyor for moving the first conveyor in an indexing manner such that the first conveyor temporarily stops at a location directly below the drill. The drill is slidably supported on a frame so as to be driven by a belt connected to the drill. A servomotor is drivingly connected to the belt so as to move the drill in an upward direction or a downward direction.

    摘要翻译: 灌封装置具有适合于在其上容纳罐的第一输送器,第二输送器具有适合于在其上接收污垢的表面,并且具有定位以将土壤输送到第一输送机上的罐的表面,位于第一输送机上方的钻头 以便相对于第一输送机上的锅可以上下移动,以在锅中形成一个孔,以及与第一输送机配合的驱动装置,用于以分度方式移动第一输送机,使得第一输送机暂时 停在钻头正下方的位置。 钻头可滑动地支撑在框架上,以便由连接到钻头的带驱动。 伺服马达驱动地连接到皮带上,以使钻头向上或向下移动。

    Potting machine
    7.
    发明授权
    Potting machine 失效
    灌封机

    公开(公告)号:US5641008A

    公开(公告)日:1997-06-24

    申请号:US396224

    申请日:1995-02-28

    申请人: C. Mitchell Ellis

    发明人: C. Mitchell Ellis

    IPC分类号: A01G9/08 B67C3/00 B65B43/42

    CPC分类号: A01G9/081 Y10S47/901

    摘要: A plant potting machine includes a pot track for sequentially conveying plant pots along a potting path. A soil lift conveyor having a soil discharge chute lifting soil above the pot track and discharges the soil through the soil discharge chute and into those plant pots on the pot track positioned in the potting path therebelow, while a soil infeed conveyor conveys the soil from a source thereof to the soil lift conveyor. The soil flow rate between the infeed and lift conveyors is synchronized by a chain-and-sprocket synchronizer. Thus, a soil flow-control motor connected to the chain-and-sprocket synchronizer continuously drives the same so that the soil infeed and lift conveyors respectively feed and lift soil in a continuous synchronous manner to thereby effect control over the flow of soil from the soil source to the discharge chute. The potting machine preferably has coordinated indexing and soil drilling assemblies so as to respectively advance the plant pots along the potting path and drill a recess in the soil deposited into the plant pots by the lift conveyor. The speeds of the soil flow-control motor and a drill motor associated with the drilling assembly are most preferably variably controlled independently by logic programmable controllers (LCP's). The rate at which the pot track indexes and the drilling assembly reciprocates is most preferably controlled via a variable speed pulley system.

    摘要翻译: 植物灌封机包括用于沿盆栽路径依次输送植物盆的罐轨道。 一种土壤提升输送机,其具有在罐轨道上方的土壤排放滑槽提升土壤,并将土壤通过排土槽排放到位于其下方灌封路径中的盆地轨道上的那些植物盆中,而土壤进料输送机将土壤从 来源到土壤提升输送机。 进料和提升输送机之间的土壤流速通过链轮和链轮同步器同步。 因此,连接到链轮和链轮同步器的土壤流动控制马达连续地驱动它们,使得土壤进料和提升输送机以连续同步方式分别进给和提升土壤,从而实现对来自 土壤源到卸料槽。 灌封机优选地具有协调的分度和土壤钻孔组件,以便分别沿着灌封路径推进植物盆,并通过提升输送机钻出沉积在植物盆中的土壤中的凹陷。 土壤流量控制电动机和与钻井组件相关联的钻机电动机的速度最优选由逻辑可编程控制器(LCP)独立地可变地控制。 罐轨道索引和钻孔组件往复运动的速率最优选通过变速滑轮系统来控制。

    Plant container filling machine
    8.
    发明授权
    Plant container filling machine 失效
    植物容器灌装机

    公开(公告)号:US4363341A

    公开(公告)日:1982-12-14

    申请号:US226799

    申请日:1981-01-21

    申请人: Calvin F. Powell

    发明人: Calvin F. Powell

    CPC分类号: A01G9/081 B65B1/10 B65B1/22

    摘要: An apparatus for continuously metering soil into moving containers is provided. Two synchronated rotating bladed wheels dispense soil from a hopper into flats of pots moving on a conveyor in a coordinated manner beneath the wheels. The hopper is vibrated by impingement of the wheel blades against the lower portion of the hopper and the containers are agitated by movement of a frame against the conveyor underside.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种用于将土壤连续计量到移动的容器中的装置。 两个同步的旋转叶轮将泥土从料斗分配到在轮子下方以协调的方式在输送机上移动的锅的平面。 料斗通过将轮叶撞击到料斗的下部而振动,并且通过框架相对于输送机下侧的运动来搅拌容器。

    Portable bale breaker and potting apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US11877550B1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-23

    申请号:US17465013

    申请日:2021-09-02

    摘要: A portable bale breaker and potting apparatus is provided. Soil bales or blocks may be loaded onto an inclined bed and conveyed to rotating breaker bars that break the soil apart into loose soil. The loose soil is conveyed by an auger into a chute which deposits the loose soil into pots on a conveyor belt positioned below the chute. Rotating brush heads downstream of the chute remove excess soil from each pot. The apparatus includes a soil management system for recycling loose overflow soil back to an upstream position on the bed.