AU2004100436A4

AU2004100436A4 - Multifunction pollination gun

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Publication number: AU2004100436A4
Application number: AU2004100436A
Authority: AU
Inventors: Zheng-Shan Yang
Original assignee: TAITUNG DISTR AGRICULTURAL RES
Current assignee: TAITUNG DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND EXTENSION STATION
Priority date: 2004-06-08
Filing date: 2004-06-08
Publication date: 2004-07-01
Anticipated expiration: 2012-06-08

Description

555431P JOM:MN P/00/009 Regulation 3.2

AUSTRALIA

Patents Act 1990

ORIGINAL

INNOVATION SPECIFICATION FOR AN INVENTION

ENTITLED

Invention Title: MULTIFUNCTION POLLINATION

GUN

Name of Applicant: TAITUNG DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND EXTENSION STATION Address for Service: COLLISON CO 117 King William Street, Adelaide, S.A. 5000 The invention is described in the following statement: Multifunction Pollination Gun BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention This invention relates to a pollination gun, and more particularly to a pollination gun has functions of air inspiration, air expiration, and lighting for night pollination, which benefits user to collect pollen and pollinate by the same gun and economize on manpower of manually collecting pollen and pollinating, and further reduce loads of carrying batteries and illuminating equipment, so the pollination gun provides a convenient pollination work and raises the bearing ratio to increase the fruit value.

2. Description of the Prior Art According to the common operation of manual cross pollination for sugarapple flower and atemoya flower (referring to FIG. the flower 1 have to be held by a hand on scape or torus during the step of collecting pollen. The hand grasps a container 3 and the other hand holds a brush 2 to lightly rub around anther and pollen 12 of stamens 111 once or twice, so the anther and pollen 12 will drop into the container 3.

Next, contrary to the sequence mentioned above, the anther and pollen 12 is adhered on the brush 2 and then the brush 2 lightly rubs around pistils 112. Therefore, the pollination operation is not convenient, and the container 3 is easily to fall or turn over to lose the collected anther and pollen 12.

The time of that the anther and pollen 12 is mature to drop is very short, only in the order of ten minutes, so the collected anther and pollen 12 is easily not enough. Furthermore, it have to search another flower 1 at flower petal opening time pistil is mature, and stamen is not mature yet) to perform the cross pollination. Namely, the cross pollination needs two persons that one is to collect pollen and anther 12 and the other is to perform the pollination to accomplish.

Accordingly, the application of manpower for pollination is not economical. The amount of anther and pollen 12 adhered on the brush 2 every time is not equal, and the control on applying amount of anther and pollen 12 is unsatisfied. Therefore, an automatically spraying pollination apparatus 4 is researched and developed, as shown in FIG. 2.

The pollination apparatus 4 exhausts pollen 12 by a pump 42 drove by a motor 41 compressing air into a pollen container 43 to exhaust pollen 12 through a pipe 44. Although the pollination apparatus 4 can save time from pollinating time for pistil 112, user still needs to collect the pollen 12 from stamens 111 into the container 43 of the pollination apparatus 4 before spraying pollen. Hence, the pollination apparatus 4 can not exclude manually collecting from pollination process, and the pollination process is performed at evening or night, so user needs a lighting equipment to provide illumination. That increases load of the user and decreases the movability of the user.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The main objective of this invention is to provide a multifunction pollination gun. The multifunction pollination gun has a fan that can rotate clockwise or anti-clockwise by applying a positive or negative voltage. Therefore, the multifunction pollination gun is capable of air inspiration and air expiration and has functions of collecting pollen and pollination. When fruit trees are flowering for pollination, users can suck pollen from stamens of flower at pollen collecting step, and spray the collected pollen to pistils of another flower at pollination step.

Thereby, the pollination of pistil is more complete and the bearing ratio can be raised. Furthermore, the fruit will be full to raise the value and the manpower for pollination and the cost are more economized.

Moreover, a pollen container made of transparent material is screwed on the front end of the pollination gun. Therefore, the user can know the amount of the collected pollen to avoid pollen overflowing.

The second objective of the present invention is to provide a multifunction pollination gun installed a fan capable of lighting. The light generated form the fan projects on the pollen container and the pollen container functions as a light guiding body to guide the light outward. Therefore, the user can work under low light BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of action of manual pollination; FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of structure of a pollination apparatus; FIG. 3 is a decomposition diagram of the pollination gun according to the present invention; FIG. 4A is a schematic diagram of structure of the base according to the present invention; FIG. 4B is a schematic diagram of structure of the pollen container according to the present invention; FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of the action of collecting pollen in an embodiment; FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of the action of pollen pollination in an embodiment; and FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment according to the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED

EMBODIMENT

In order to let Examiner understands characteristics and advantages of the present invention in detail to reveal the functions, the present invention will be described with the corresponding figures.

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in following.

Referring to FIG. 3, the present invention is to provide a multifunction pollination gun composed of a base 5, a housing 6, and a pollen container 7.

Referring to FIG. 4A, the base 5 is installed with a control device 51, and one end of the control device 51 is installed a positive port 511 and a negative port 512 and the other end of the control device 51 is installed with a control key 513. The base 5 and a battery container 53 are respectively on two side of the control device 51. Because a fan 52 can be drove by positive or negative voltage, electric wires 56 connect the control device 51 with the fan 52 and the battery container 53 to form a control loop and the fan 52 can rotate clockwise or anti-clockwise by switching the polarity of the applied voltage with the control device 51.

One end of the fan 52 is installed with a screw joint portion 54 and the other end is installed with at least one draft hole 55 for leading stroke.

Referring to FIG. 4B, the pollen container 7 is made of a transparent material, so users know the amount of collected pollen to avoid pollen overflowing. On end of the pollen container 7 is installed with an air inspiration pipe 71 and the other end is installed with a second screw joint portion 72 for joining to the screw joint portion 54 of the base Furthermore, a screen 73 is installed between the air inspiration pipe 71 and the second screw joint portion 72 for isolation.

Accordingly, when the user collects pollen (as shown in FIG. the user can switch the position of control key 513 of the control device 51 to the negative port 512 and the fan is drove with negative voltage to anticlockwise rotate. Therefore, the fan will inspire to collect the pollen adhered on stamens of flower into the pollen container.

On the contrary, when the user pollinate (as shown in FIG. the user can switch the position of control key 513 of the control device 51 to the positive port 511 and the fan is drove with positive voltage to clockwise rotate. Therefore, the fan will expire to spray the collected pollen to pistils of flower. Therefore, the present invention can achieve more complete and reduce the manpower and cost for pollination.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment according to the present invention. The fan of the base 5 can be a fan 57 installed with a lighting device. The light emitted by the fan 57 projects on the pollen container 7 and the pollen container functions as a light guiding body to guide the light outward. Hence, the user can perform the pollination under low light condition.

For further presenting the advantages and utilities of the present invention, the pollination gun is compared with that in the prior arts and the resulted is described below: Disadvantages in prior arts: 1. manually collecting pollen, requiring much time and manpower; 2. manually pollination, wasting manpower; 3. flower having to held by a hand, scape easily coming off to lose flower; 4. short pollination duration, much anther and pollen being unable to be collected in time; stigma of pistil being impaired easily while rubbing around pistils with brush to losing flower or brown or impair the profile of immature fruit; 6. user requiring to carry illuminating equipment for illumination in evening or night to increase the load and reduce the movation; 7. cost of manual pollination being too high to reduce the product cost and increase competitiveness; 8. having no utility.

Advantages in the present invention: 1. Pollination process needing only one person, economizing on manpower and cost; 2. collecting a great quantity of pollen in time, shortening time of collecting pollen and raising the collecting efficiency; 3. reducing the probability of touching flower to avoid lose the flower; 4. increasing working efficiency for collecting pollen and economizing pollen source; avoiding impairing pistils during pollination process, increasing bearing ratio, steadying production, making fruits well and full, and raising the value of fruit; 6. performing pollination under low light condition or night without any uncomfortableness; 7. having utilities.

Claims

1. A multifunction pollination gun having a base, a housing, and a pollen container, said multifunction pollination gun comprising: a control device having a positive port and a negative port installed at one end and a control key installed at the other end; and a fan installed on one side of said control device and capable of air inspiration and air expiration through clockwise and anti-clockwise rotating; wherein said control key switches positive port and a negative port to drive said fan.

2. A multifunction pollination gun according to claim 1, wherein said pollen container has a screen for isolating pollen and said fan.

3. A multifunction pollination gun according to claim 1, wherein one side of said base is installed at least one draft hole for leading stroke.

4. A multifunction pollination gun according to claim 1, wherein said fan is a fan capable of lighting to illuminate said pollen container, and said pollen container guides the light outward for providing illumination under low light condition.