ES1058129U - Stand-catcher for bags and trays of hydroponics. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Stand-collecting bags and trays for hydroponic culture, of those used in horticulture and floriculture, where said bags or trays are longitudinal alignments, incorporating therein a substrate acting physical support for rooting of plants, as well as least one supply pipe water with nutrients in its upper region, having in its lower base with drain holes for outlet of excess water, wherein it consists of a grooved body of indefinite length, wherein a large sector is defined intermediate, which is faced with the perforations of the bags or trays and a grooved configuration configures the collector of residual water prolonging said intermediate sector and corrugated in two marginal wings, located at the level of its mouth, coplanar and projected out, said wings constituting the physical support for support and lift bags or trays, through marginal areas thereof, devoid of drainage holes, so that said piece channels the wastewater to recycling it, after the provision of the nutrients necessary. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

Holder-collector for bags and hydroponic culture trays.

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a device which has been specially designed to act simultaneously as physical support of a plurality of bags and / or trays of the used in hydroponic crops, and in addition to act as a water collector in the normal drainage produced in said bags and / or trays.

The object of the invention is to ensure that said support, in addition to its function as such, allows collecting the drainage water, for later reuse, after contribution to it of the necessary nutrients for this purpose.

The support-collector results especially suitable to be used in installations of hydroponic horticulture and floriculture.

Background of the invention

As is known, cultivation systems hydroponic rely on the use of a substrate preferably inert, whose basic function is to constitute the physical support for plants, where rooting occurs of these, a substrate that is supplied with water that carries dissolution of those necessary nutrients, in the proportions suitable for the development of the plants to be cultivated.

Said substrate is housed in bags or trays, with perforations in their lower base, so that the plants absorb nutrients from water, together with part of the latter, and the surplus comes out of the aforementioned perforations passing directly to the ground.

More specifically water with nutrients It is supplied to an alignment of bags or trays in the area superior of the same, so that this fluid crosses all the substrate mass in support functions, before reaching perforations of its lower base.

This solution is a problem with a double slope, on the one hand there is a notable loss of water which is unacceptable, especially in those areas where it is scarce, and on the other hand said residual water carries along nutrients that are also lost, which negatively impacts in the profitability of the installation.

Description of the invention

The support-collector that proposed invention resolves in a fully satisfactory way the problematic previously exposed, in both aspects commented.

To do this and more specifically said support-collector materializes in a profile ribbed, of indefinite length, which presents the special particularity that in correspondence with its mouth incorporates a pair of horizontal and coplanar wings, preferably projected outwards, which constitute the supporting elements for the marginal areas of the bags or the inert substrate container trays, which remain like this perfectly fixed to the support, leaving a wide sector or intermediate strip of its lower face, on which the cited drainage perforations.

These wings complement the function in addition of support of the support collector on legs or other elements of support that conveniently distance it from the ground.

The corrugated area of the profile constitutes the collector that collects the drainage water from the bags or trays, channeling it conveniently for reuse, obviously after its analysis and the contribution of those nutrients that are necessary for a formulation appropriate to the type of plants to grow

It is achieved in this way, according to the fundamental objective of the invention, not only that the bags or trays are properly stabilized and aligned, in their working position, but also an integral use of the irrigation water to be reused after the contribution to it of the necessary nutrients.

Description of the drawings

To complement the description that is being performing and in order to help a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention, according to a preferred example of practical realization of it, is accompanied as part member of that description, a set of drawings where with illustrative and non-limiting nature, what has been represented next:

Figure 1.- Shows a detail in section transverse of a support-collector for bags and hydroponic trays, made according to the object of the present invention.

Figure 2.- Shows a perspective view of the support-collector of the previous figure, on which appears located a bag of substrate with its corresponding plants.

Preferred Embodiment of the Invention

In view of the figures outlined you can be observed as the support-collector that the proposed invention is constituted by a corrugated profile, to aluminum base or other appropriate material, in which a sector (1) determinant of a triangular section channel isoscelic, preferably with its lower vertex (2) rounded, whose side walls and sharply oblique, which correspond to the reference itself (1), suffer an inflection rounded (3) by its upper extremity for, after a short stretch (4) vertical suffer a determinate external orthogonal bending of lateral and coplanar wings (5) determining in turn a remarkable widening at the mouth of the profile.

These upper and horizontal wings (5) are intended to constitute the support areas of the profile on any appropriate support medium, and especially to constitute the supports for an alignment of conventional bags (6) containers of the substrate (7) in question, with its lower base (8) drilled to drain excess water, and with a longitudinal and middle alignment of holes on its upper base (9) in which corresponding plants are located (10) to be cultivated, rooted in the substrate (7) and from which they take the water and the nutrients supplied to said bags (6), by the upper zone thereof, through one or more irrigation pipes, not represented in the drawings.

Obviously the profile (1) can support, instead of the bags (6) of figure 2, any type of tray conventional hydroponics or any other container for said substrate (7).

It is achieved in this way, according to the purpose of the invention, which in addition to the bags (6) or trays properly stabilized on the profile, in function of support for the latter, that the surplus of water leaving the bags (6) or trays through their bottom base (8) be collected in the corrugated sector (1) of the profile and conveniently channeled for later reuse as irrigation water, prior incorporation of those nutrients that are necessary.

Claims (1)

1. Support-collector for bags and trays of hydroponic cultivation, of those used in horticulture and floriculture, where said bags or trays form longitudinal alignments, incorporate inside a substrate in functions of physical support for rooting of the plants, as well as the less a water supply pipe with nutrients in its upper zone, having in its lower base with drainage holes for excess water outlet, characterized in that it consists of a corrugated body, of indefinite length, in which a wide sector is defined intermediate, which faces the perforations of the bags or trays and that with a ribbed configuration configures the wastewater collector, extending said intermediate and grooved sector in two marginal wings, located at the level of its mouth, coplanar and projected outwards, said wings constituting the physical support for support and support of the bags or trays, through of the marginal zones of the same ones, the devoid of drainage holes, so that said piece channels the residual water for recycling of the same, after the contribution of the necessary nutrients.