ES1070740U - Auto-irrigation device for pots (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Self-watering device for pots, in particular for double-walled pots, in which an outer bottom and an inner bottom is defined, characterized in that it consists of a substantially flat base, engageable in the perimeter stairway of the inner wall of the wall. The flowerpot, sensibly distanced from the inner bottom of the same, so that said base forms with the bottom of the pot a container containing irrigation water, which the plant accesses through a plurality of tiny holes that are affected all the surface of said base, which has signaling means of the water level existing at each moment in said chamber. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

Self-irrigation device for pots.

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a self-irrigation device, implantable in the breast of a pot of various configurations, which allows the constant water supply to the plant, according to the needs of the latter, which allows distance considerably over time the contributions of water to the pot, and all this with a visual control of the water stored in conditions of being absorbed by the plant.

The invention is applicable interchangeably to circular plant pots such as quadrangular, rectangular or any other, without more conditioning than the existence in the background of it from a camera capable of storing water, also with any configuration

Background of the invention

There are different devices that allow self-watering a pot, such as blisters of greater or lesser capacity than punctured in the earthy mass of the pot are gradually losing water, with the consequent effect of irrigation.

The problem presented by these devices irrigation is its negative aesthetic impact on the pot since they are mostly visible, and the greater the intention is its operational capacity over time, greater should be volume and more and worse affects the aforementioned aesthetics of the pot.

Description of the invention

The self-irrigation device that the invention proposes resolves in a fully satisfactory manner the problematic previously exposed, constituting an element mostly hidden, barely visible in the context of the flower pot, which also offers a large water storage capacity, allowing at all times a visual control of the water that has.

To do this more specifically the device that the invention proposes consists of a formal basis and dimensionally consistent with the bottom of the pot it is intended for, base endowed with a plurality of lower protuberances that they act as support on the bottom of the pot, that is, as distance means between the base and said bottom, in order to establish a chamber in the pot and at the lower level container of irrigation water, to which the roots of plants they access through tiny holes that affect all the surface of said base.

Thus, under the aforementioned basis of Self-watering defines a water chamber or reservoir, of remarkable capacity, and on it the plant is located, with its roots immersed in the mass of topsoil that occupies the rest of the pot, so that the plant gradually absorbs the water you need through the base of self-irrigation, until it runs out.

To check the water level at all times available in this lower chamber, it is planned that the base of self-irrigation count at any appropriate point of it, preferably next to its periphery, with a hole for coupling a vertical and upper tube, with the collaboration of a tongue and groove assembly piece, tube in the that two related floats play through a rod of appropriate length, so that the water thrust on the bottom float determines a float position upper variable, defined by the level of water within the lower chamber, position that is signaled by the second float, the upper one, which will emerge from the tube in greater or lesser measure, determining the amount of existing water, and being said  upper float protected by a transparent piece that allows its visualization, and which in turn is fixed to the limb upper of the mentioned tube.

As previously stated, the dimensions of the self-irrigation base are variable depending on the type of pot to which it is intended, even in the case planters of considerable length exist two extreme markers that ensure better control of the filling of water, facing a possible lack of horizontality in the assembly of the gardener.

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 an exploded perspective. of the self-watering device for pots that It constitutes the object of the present invention.

Figure 2.- Shows a sectioned perspective.  diametrically of the device of figure 1, properly assembled and installed on a pot.

Figure 3.- Shows a similar representation to figure 2, but corresponding to a device intended for a quadrangular pot.

Figure 4.- Shows, finally, a representation similar to those in figures 2 and 3, but corresponding to an elongated pot, type gardener.

Preferred Embodiment of the Invention

In view of the figures outlined, and in particular of figure 1, can be seen as the device that the proposed invention is constituted from a base of self-watering (1), usually flat, which can adopt a circular configuration as in the case of figure 1, quadrangular as in the case of figure 3, or rectangular elongated and with rounded ends as in the case of figure 4, as well as any other configuration defined according to a pot (2) with other configuration

The pot (2) will preferably be double wall and will have an inner bottom (3), more or less raised with respect to the outer bottom (4), supporting the base of self-irrigation on a perimeter step (5), conveniently distanced from the inner base (3) of the pot, step that will obviously match dimensionally with the edge perimeter and free of the self-irrigation base (1), of so that under the latter, between said base (1) and the bottom inside (3) of the pot, a container chamber (6) is established of irrigation water.

The self-watering base (1) maintains its perfect flatness, in addition to its own rigidity structural, due to the existence of a plurality of stuffings (7) serrated down, which constitute spacers or legs of support on the inner bottom (3) of the pot.

In addition to the repeatedly cited base of self-irrigation (1) incorporates a plurality of tiny holes (8), properly distributed throughout its surface and as seen especially in the figure 1, intended for access by the roots of the plant to water existing in the camera (6).

To control the level of water in at all times in said chamber (6) it is provided that on the basis of self-watering (1) is fixed vertically and superiorly a tube (9), with the collaboration of an assembly piece (10) consisting of a kind of trunk-conical wedge that It is assembled with the tube, and it allows its insertion into a hole marginal (11) of the self-irrigation base (1), incorporating a series of slots for passage of water through the tube.

This tube (9) is intended to serve as guide a pair of floats (12-12 ') related to each other through a distance rod (13), so that the lower float (12) adopts at all times a height level position determined by the water level in the inside the chamber (6) and this position is transferred to the float upper (12) that is visible through a transparent piece (14) which ends the upper end of the tube (9) and which in turn it is substantially in correspondence with the mouth of the pot (2), so that when the chamber (6) is really full of water the float (12 ') will be fully visible through of the transparent piece (14), while as the water goes being consumed by the plant and the floats are descending, the area that the upper float (12 ') is smaller shows through the transparent piece (14), up to a limit situation of total emptying in which the aforementioned float (12 ') is completely hidden.

As previously stated, from this structuring for the device of self-irrigation, the base configuration of self-irrigation (1) can vary practically unlimited, according to formal and dimensional requirements of the pots to which it is intended, as shown by title Just as an example, Figures 3 and 4, it should be noted that in the latter, due to its considerable length, three are planned successive self-irrigation bases, in alignment longitudinal, of which only two of them, which occupy extreme positions, incorporate the level signaling element of water described above.

Claims (4)

1. Self-watering device for pots, in particular for double-wall pots, in which an outer bottom and an inner bottom is defined, characterized in that it consists of a substantially flat base, attachable in the perimeter step of the inner wall of the pot, substantially distanced from the inner bottom of the same, so that said base configures with the bottom of the pot a chamber containing irrigation water, which the plant accesses through a plurality of tiny holes that are affected the entire surface of said base, which has means indicating the level of water existing at any time within the said chamber. 2. Self-watering device for pots, according to claim 1, characterized in that said self-watering base incorporates a plurality of lower inlays, in function of legs, of height consistent with that of the water storage chamber, on which background support in mounting situation. 3. Self-watering device for pots, according to claim 1, characterized in that the water level control means in said chamber consist of a tube that is coupled vertically and ascendingly in a hole in the self-watering base, with the collaboration of an assembly piece, playing inside said tube two floats, interconnected by means of an intermediate rod, of which the lower float is pushed by the water of the lower chamber, while the upper float plays in the sinus of a transparent piece that tops the upper extremity of said tube, which has a length such that the transparent and upper piece emerges with respect to the mass of soil that fills the pot. 4. Self-watering device for pots, according to previous claims, characterized in that the configuration of the self-watering base and its dimensions are determined by the configuration and dimensions of the interior bottom of the pot, and in the case of elongated pots exist several independent bases or a base also considerably elongated, with two level control elements, one at each end of the pot.