ES1195360U - Structure of protection and antivolcado of plants for lands of cultivation in the open air, especially nurseries. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Structure of protection and antivolcado of plants for terrains of culture in the open air, especially in nurseries, characterized because it comprises a series of cells-pot (1) of circular shape that are joined and separated from each other by a plastics material (10), forming a rectangular structure or assembly (Fig. 5) that contains multiple pot-cells (1), which is distributed in a linear fashion, forming parallel and symmetrical rows. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

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DESCRIPTION

Structure of protection and anti-knocking of plants for outdoor farmland, especially nurseries.

OBJECT OF THE INVENTION

The present specification refers to a modular structure for protection and anti-tipping of plants, designed for outdoor farmland, especially in nurseries. The purpose of the structure is the achievement of the optimal support and stability of the species useful to man for reforestation, ornamentation or production of fruit trees, as it avoids its possible dumping and deterioration through a system of independent cylindrical cells, which replace the usual pots or sherds and in which the plant develops optimally, while allowing easy extraction and distribution. The cells are separated and joined together by a seam of plastic material, while providing a new system of tensioning and fixing to the ground of the entire structure, in order to provide it with firmness and avoid the usual falls and overturns of the plants because of the wind or other adverse circumstances, providing them with the necessary stability and keeping them separate from each other. The system allows nursery professionals to timely meet the care and demand of plants. avoiding the inconvenience and costs associated with the additional work caused by the falls of pots, sherds and supports, with the consequent spilling of the earth or material that surrounds the root ball, especially in windy areas or that support less favorable climatic conditions.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The production of vegetative material in nurseries is presented as one of the best means to select and massively produce useful species to man, while preventing and controlling the effects of diseases or pests through specific care and providing the most favorable conditions for optimal development, achieving greater adaptation at the time of the eventual transplant.

Permanent nurseries require a greater investment in equipment, labor and land and must have access roads to satisfy the

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plant demand.

In the case of the species that are exposed in outdoor lands of permanent nurseries, it is common for certain types of flats to be raised in the bosom of disposable pots or pots where they remain until they are transported and definitively transplanted, at which time that the pot is removed and the root ball becomes buried or transferred to its final container. In order to avoid the dump, movement and spills of land in the containers of plants that are developed outdoors in nurseries it is possible to mention the existence in the market of some systems and contraptions that prevent the pots from falling, the majority consisting of container trays or bats, or in windproof systems through the use of meshes that run parallel to the strips or streets where the aligned sherds are exposed, not presenting any of them and ignoring the existence of technical, structural and constitutive characteristics similar to those recommended in the present invention.

In the invention EP0285733A1 a pot holder is developed based on a series of longitudinal bars and cross pieces so that the pots are held either by their upper part, or by the lower one through elastic parts. The referred invention has its application especially, at the time of transport of the pots.

The invention ES 1058501U describes an anti-roll stand furniture for pots in installations or transport whose essential function is to host a pot. It consists of three legs that start from their upper angles and are chamfered by a concave inlet that defines the shape of these legs and equipped with a base that provides stability to the furniture. The possibility of stacking and establishing contiguous planes is foreseen through their assembly by means of fins and pivots.

This invention is provided, as seen in its description, to accommodate a pot or pot.

Utility Model ES 1075053U describes a fall arrest device configured through a lying T-shaped metal anchor rod that is anchored to the ground partially inserted in a hole made for that purpose in the location desired for the pot and to which a protection sheath is incorporated, placing the pot on the protruding part of the rod, which is inserted in one of the drainage holes, or in another practiced for that purpose.

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In this sense, it is worth mentioning that such inventions usually consist of systems that are either aimed at facilitating the transport of plants and are not applicable to the period in which the plants remain in the nurseries, or require that the development of the Plant is produced in a pot, pot or seedbed.

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The system of protection and anti-knocking of plants for outdoor farmland, especially in nurseries, is configured as a novelty within its field of application, since, on the one hand, it functions as an anti-knocking system of plants and therefore, of great part of the material that protects the root ball, while allowing an optimal development of the planted species, and allows easy extraction of the root ball at the time of its sale, thus providing important advantages:

- Low cost of the materials used, light and at the same time resistant.

- Easy transport and colocation.

- Allows its adaptation to different types of terrain.

- Maximum use of space

- Easy access to plants for care.

- The extraction is carried out comfortably and can even be carried out at the same time of its sale.

The system is composed of series of circular cell-planters that run aligned, parallel and symmetrically shaped. Each cell has several lateral perforations in its lower part, counting said holes with the appropriate dimensions to keep the earth stable inside, as well as the optimal drainage and ventilation of the roots.

The cells are separated from each other by means of a mesh or seam of plastic material, so that the union or coupling of several cells with the respective mesh is forming symmetrical modules that give rise to a rectangular structure similar to a honeycomb but with separation between cells. These final structures will have the width and extension necessary to form streets or corridors, for which a system of coupling of additional structures is foreseen, in order to adapt them to the space available in the nursery and to the configuration that best allows any operator or staff

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they can have direct access to the manipulation of the plants or their extraction. Likewise, the structure has means of fixing to the ground and a tensioning system, for which elements or parts coupled to certain external cell-planters that allow the sliding of tensioning ropes or cables and of several fixing rods are provided.

PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION

In view of the described figures, it can be seen how the system for the protection and anti-tipping of outdoor cultivated plants, especially in nurseries, is configured from a cell-pot (1) in a circular shape and of rigid and resistant material, whose Size may vary depending on the type of plant species that is intended to contain.

By way of illustrative and non-limiting examples, the cell-planters (1) can present the following measures:

For a cell 130 mm high, the width of the base will be 95 mm and the lateral perforations (2) a circumference of between 10 and 15 mm maximum.

For a cell-pot (1) 170mm high, the width of the base will be 130mm and the lateral perforations (2) will be a circumference of between 10 and 15 mm maximum.

The cell-planters (1) are intended to serve as containers for outdoor cultivated plants, as well as for the soil and other material in which they are developed, for which they adopt a circular shape similar to a traditional pot. Each cell-pot (1) has several perforations (2) whose purpose is to facilitate drainage and ventilation of the roots, in the appropriate size to keep the soil and plant stable.

As described above, in the present invention, the assembly formed by the union of the cell-planters (1) by means of the plastic seam gives rise to a final structure of rectangular shape (Fig 5) in which the cells (1,4,8) are arranged in a linear fashion, run parallel and symmetrically, so that part of the cells that form the structure will be internal and other external cells-planters. The four external cell-planters that are located in each of the four vertices of the rectangular structure (4) have variants with respect to the internal ones and with respect to the rest of the external cells, since they contain an anchor point with perforation (5) for union and coupling of possible identical structures through nut-screw, as well as a pin in tubular form (6) of resistant material and coupled in the outer lateral area of each of these four cell-planters located in

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each vertex (4). The objective of the pin (6) is to allow the introduction of a metal ground fixing cab (7), which is driven into the ground to cause maximum tension of the structure (Fig 5) once the four ends are properly anchored.

The loops (7) have an arcuate shape in their upper part, to avoid that they can easily detach from the structure (Fig 5), and tip shape in the lower end to be able to be nailed and remain fixed in the ground. The material must be metallic.

To achieve the total tension and the fixation of the structure, some of the external cells-planters (8), specifically, one in three (8), or, in the case of smaller cells-planters (1), a out of five (8), they have a small horizontal buckle (9) designed to allow the passage of a metal or plastic tensioning cable that will go from cabilla to cabilla passing through each of the cells-pot with buckle (8)

The plastic material seam (10) that joins and separates the pot-cells has the objective of stabilizing the entire cell surface and providing the system with maximum resistance, while keeping the plants separate. For cells (1) 130 mm high, the costuron (10) shall be a maximum of 40 mm wide and for cells (1) 170 mm, the width shall be 60 mm.

The structure as a whole (Fig 5), by way of example and in no case limiting, will have measures 4840 mm long and 2110 wide, for the cells (1) described of smaller size and 4940 mm long and 1910 mm wide, for the cell-planters described of greater size, being able to give rise to a structure (Fig 5) of 189 cell-planters (1) in the first case and 90 in the second.

The extraction of the plant or root ball is done easily using the usual methods in the nurseries and can be done even at the time of the sale itself.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Figure 1 shows an elevation of a cell-pot.

Figure 2 shows an elevation of the distribution of the cells incorporating the plastic seam that joins and separates them.

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Figure 3 shows an elevation of the cell-pots that are placed in the vertices of the final protection and anti-tip structure.

Figure 4 shows an elevation of the external cell-planters through which the tensioning cable must pass.

Figure 5 is a plan view of the final plant protection and anti-knock structure.

Claims (6)

5 10 fifteen twenty 25 30 35 1. Structure of protection and anti-tipping of plants for outdoor cultivation land, especially in nurseries, characterized in that it comprises a series of circular-shaped cells (1) that are joined and separated from each other by a seam of plastic material ( 10), forming a rectangular structure or assembly (Fig 5) containing multiple cell-planters (1), which are distributed linearly, forming parallel and symmetrical rows. 2. Structure of protection and anti-tipping of plants for outdoor farmland, especially nurseries, according to previous claim, characterized in that the structure is rectangular (Fig 5) and allows incorporating additional modules or structures through pieces or joining elements ( 5 ) 3. Structure of protection and anti-tipping of plants for outdoor farmland, especially in nurseries, according to the first claim, characterized in that the cell-planters (1) and the union and separation costuron (10) have proportional measures to the type and size of each plant. 4. Protection and anti-tilt structure of plants for outdoor farmland, especially in nurseries, according to previous claims, characterized in that the cell-planters (1) incorporate several perforations (2) along the contour of their lower part. between 10 and 15 mm in circumference to allow the correct drainage and aeration of the plant. 5. Structure of protection and anti-tipping of plants for outdoor farmland, especially in nurseries, according to first and second claims, characterized in that the four outer cell-pots (4) located in the vertices incorporate at their free end a pin in tubular shape (6) and an anchor point with perforation (5), the first one to allow the passage of a curved metal cab (7) in its upper part, for its fixation to the ground in order to cause the perfect tension of the structure (Fig 5); and the second, to its coupling to equal structures by means of a screw nut system. 5 10 fifteen twenty 25 30 35 6. Structure of protection and anti-knocking of plants for outdoor farmland, especially in nurseries, according to first and second claims characterized in that some of the external cell-planters of the series (8) incorporate in their free part a buckle (9 ) that allows the passage of a tensioning cable that goes from end to end of each side of the structure, from one cell to another, with a cab (4), passing through these intermediate cells with buckle (8) to achieve greater tension and structure stability.