CA2283546C - Culture plate for the rooting of young plants - Google Patents

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CA2283546C
CA2283546C CA002283546A CA2283546A CA2283546C CA 2283546 C CA2283546 C CA 2283546C CA 002283546 A CA002283546 A CA 002283546A CA 2283546 A CA2283546 A CA 2283546A CA 2283546 C CA2283546 C CA 2283546C
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01GHORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING
    • A01G9/00Cultivation in receptacles, forcing-frames or greenhouses; Edging for beds, lawn or the like
    • A01G9/02Receptacles, e.g. flower-pots or boxes; Glasses for cultivating flowers
    • A01G9/029Receptacles for seedlings
    • A01G9/0295Units comprising two or more connected receptacles

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Abstract

In the case of a culture plate for the rooting of young plants with rows arranged in parallel with each other in order to accommodate pots oriented downwards with holes in the base of the pots and with a surrounding edge enclosing the culture plate, it is planned that the plate base is arranged in a deeper position in relation to the edge and that transversely directed grooves are provided in the plate base at a certain distance apart.

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Cutture Plate for the Rootina of Youna PflantS

The Invention relates to a culture plate for the rooting of young plants with rows arranged in parallel with each other in order to accommodate pots oriented downwards with holes in the base of the pots and with a surrounding edge enclosing the culture plate.

A well-known culture plate exhibits pot-like hollows or pots which are located in rows arranged in parallel with each other, are open at the top and have an opening with a smaller diameter in their base. The smaller opening in the base serves to press the balls of soil with root penetration, together with the young plant, out of the pot-like hollow trom the bottom and to allow surplus water to drain away. This culture plate has a rectangular shape and a surrounding edge.

Another culture plate well-known from EP 0 657 096 A1 has two supports in the first row Instead of the two outermost pots and, in the last row Instead of the two second-outermost pots, two supports which are hollow, open at the bottom and oriented upwards. In this case, the two second-outermost pots in the first row are each provided with one supporting ring on the base, the two outermost pots in the last row are each provided with one supporting ring on the base and one centering attachment is provided at the top end of each support. The supports exhibit an opening in their walls pointing towards the culture plate. The supporting rings on the base of the two outermost pots and of the two second-outermost pots exhibit lateral recesses.

A great deal of water is required in order to water the plants In these well-known culture plates.

For various reasons, the objective is to minimize the consumption of water:

1. A high consumptlon of water has a negative Influence on the greenhouse climate.
Diseases (above all, fungal diseases) are promoted by this.
2. Water is not always available in a sufffcient quantity, e.g. on Tenerife.

The invention Is based on the task of creating such a culture plate for which, in comparfson, very littie water is necessary for the watering of the plants.

According to the invention, this task Is solved by arranging the plate base In a deeper position In relation to the edge and by providing transversely directed grooves In the plate base at a predefinable distance apart.

The grooves are expediently provided with at least one hole through which the surplus water flows into a water-collection system.

it is recommended that multiple pots arranged next to each other should be suspended in the grooves.

The culture plate is expediently equipped with holder grooves in which the top edge of the multiple pots is supported.

Furthermore, the top edge of the multiple pots can be shaped in such a way that it closes the groove completely.

In further development of the invention, the multiple pots may be provided with at least one hole for the removal of the surplus water and may end above the base of the groove.

It is advantageous that those areas of the plate base of the culture plate located between two adjacent grooves can be formed in a roof shape so that the water can flow away to the grooves.

In further development of the invention, the opposite walls of the grooves may run downwards conically and the walls of the multiple pots may also run downwards conically.

In this respect, those areas of the plate base located between two adjacent grooves are expediently formed In a roof shape.

Moreover, it is recommended that the culture piate should be formed in such a way that the multiple pots exhibit two flanges at the top which stick out on both sides and are supported in a holder groove.

It is particularly advantageous that several culture plates can be hooked together in order to form one longer row of culture plates.

Furthermore, the invention relates to a row of culture plates consisting of several culture plates for the rooting of young plants with rows arranged in parallel with each other in order to accommodate pots oriented downwards with holes in the base of the pots and with a surrounding edge enclosing the culture plate whereby the culture plates are hooked to each other.

In this respect, another thought of the invention is that the row of culture plates consists of one starting plate, at least one centre plate and one end plate.
In further development of the invention, it may be planned that the starting plate is trimmed at its end oriented towards the row of culture plates, that the end plate is also trimmed at its end directed towards the row of culture plates and that the centre plate is trimmed on both sides 1n such a way that the starting plate and the end plate can be hooked into the adjacent centre plate on one side and a centre plate can be hooked on both sides into the adjacent starting plate or into the adjacent end plate or into an adjacent centre plate.
The Invention is explained in greater detail below on the basis of a design example portrayed on the drawing. It shows Fig. 1 an In-perspective representation of a row of culture plates, consisting of individuai culture plates hooked into each other, Fig. 2 an in-perspective representation of the row of culture plates according to Fig.
1 with individual culture plates arranged at a mutual distance apart and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section through the row of culture plates along the line III-III on Figure 1 with one multiple pot.

The culture plate portrayed on the drawing is used for the rooting of young plants.
Ttic row of culture plates portrayed on Figure 1 consists of one starting plate 1, one centre plate 2 and one end plate 3. The base of the row of culture plates consists of partial sections 4 to 11 which are formed in a roof shape and between which grooves 12 to 18 are arranged. Moreover, a surrounding edge 19 to 26 is provided.

An example of the multiple pots is portrayed in the groove 13 - in this case, consisting of 5 individual pots. An example with three individual pots is portrayed in groove 18. Multiple pots with 26 individual pots may be provided. The multiple pots 27 and 28 have one flange 29 to 32 on each of the two sides with which they are supported in stepped shapes 33 and 34 at the top end of the walls forming the grooves 18.

on Flgure 2, the row of culture plates portrayed on Figure 1 is portrayed when the Individual culture plates forming the row of culture plates are not hooked into each other. The same reference symbols are used here as on Figure 1. The starting plate 1 is trimmed at its end facing the centre plate 2. Likewise, the centre plate 2 is trimmed at its end facing the starting plate 1 whereby the two trimming processes are carried out in such a way that the outermost wall of the groove of the starting plate 1 projects over the outermost wall of the groove of the centre plate 2.
As a result of this, both plates 1 and 2 are hooked with each other.

The end plate 3 is trimmed at its end 37 tacing the centre plate 2. Likewise, the centre plate 2 Is trimmed at its end 38 facing the end plate 3, i.e. in such a way that the wall 41 of the centre plate 2 projects over the wall 42 of the end plate 3. As a result of this, both plates 2 and 3 are hooked with each other.

These conditions can be recognized easily on Figure 3. The wall 38 of the starting plate 1 projects over the wall 37 of the centre plate 2 whereby these walls form a part of the groove 14.

Multiple pots 27 are located in the groove 15 formed by the two walls 43 and 44. An Intermediate space 47 is left between the bases 45 of the multiple pots 27 and the base 46 of the groove 15 so that the water emerging through the base opening 48 of the multiple pots 27 can flow away in the lower area of the groove 15.

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Claims (24)

1. A culture tray for young plants to take root in parallel rows to support pots oriented towards the base which have openings of a smaller diameter in their base walls surrounding the culture tray, whereby the tray base is arranged at a lower position in relation to the walls and transversely directed channels at predefinable distances apart from one another are arranged on the tray base, whereby a multiplicity of pots, having top edges shaped in such a way that they close the channels completely, are hooked in the parallel channels, consisting or rows of pots, and that the channels located between two adjacent areas of the tray base are part of the culture tray and, in comparison with the channels or the multiplicity of pots, are raised sloping to both sides.
2. A culture tray according to claim 1, wherein said channels are arranged in similar or dissimilar lengths.
3. A culture tray according to claim 2, wherein said channels are provided with at least one hole through which surplus water may flow into a water-collection system.
4. A culture tray according to claim 3, wherein said housing base wall has wall sections defining a bottom wall for each of said channels and said pots are provided with a bottom wall with at least one hole for the drainage of surplus water wherein the pot bottom wall is spaced above the bottom wall of said channels.
5. A culture tray according to claim 4, wherein said plant pots have top edges defining open top ends and wherein said culture tray has ledges on which said top edges of said pots are supported.
6. A culture tray according to claim 5, wherein said housing base wall has sidewalls defining opposite walls of the channels which extend conically downward and wherein said multiplicity of pots each have sidewalls which also extend conically downward.
7 7. A culture according to claim 1, wherein the areas between said channels with parallel elevations have loops to support a roof strip.
8. A culture tray according to claim 7, wherein roof strips are intended to cover several channels.
9. A culture tray according to claim 1 wherein the areas between said channels of the culture tray or the roof strips are generally convex.
10. A culture tray according to claim 9, wherein the different cross sections can be combined, preferably in different angles of inclination.
11. A culture tray according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of said culture trays are provided and each include means for hooking together said trays in order to effectively form one long row of culture trays.
12. A culture tray according to claim 11, wherein a plurality of culture trays arranged in a row each comprise an open-top housing having a base wall and a peripherally extending edge, said base wall defining a plurality of transversely extending and spaced-apart channels which may accommodate the multiplicity of plant pots, said housing base wall being arranged at a lower position in relation to said peripherally extending edge and said transversely directed channels being provided in the housing base wall at predefinable distances apart from one another wherein said channels are provided with at least one hole through which surplus water may flow into a water-collection system and wherein said housing-base wall has wall sections located between two adjacent channels which are arranged in a pitched roof shape, said row of culture trays including one starting tray, at least one center tray, and one end tray, each of said trays including a surrounding edge at least particularly enclosing said tray and a multiplicity of plant pots arranged in parallel rows, said plant pots having open top ends, and sidewalls depending from said top ends which merge with a pot-bottom wall having a hole, and means for hooking said culture trays to each other in a row.
13. A culture tray according to claim 12, wherein said means for hooking includes each of said trays having at least one trimmed end which is dimensioned and configured to hook into a trimmed end of one of the other trays and wherein said starting tray and said end tray have trimmed end sections at their respective ends directed towards the row of culture trays and wherein at least one center tray has trimmed ends on both of its ends whereby said starting tray and said end tray can be hooked into said center tray on opposite ends thereof and said center tray can be hooked on opposite ends into an adjacent starting, center or end tray.
14. A culture tray according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of said culture trays are provided and each include means for hooking together said trays in order to effectively form one long row of culture trays.
15. A culture tray for the rooting of young plants in parallel rows in a multiplicity of plant pots, comprising:

a. an open top housing having a base wall and a peripherally extending edge, said base wall defining a plurality of transversely extending and spaced apart channels which may accommodate the multiplicity of plant pots, said housing base wall being arranged at a lower position in relation to said peripherally extending edge and said transversely directed channels being provided in the housing base wall at predefinable distances apart from one another wherein said channels are provided with at least one hole through which surplus water may flow into a water-collection system and wherein said housing base wall has wall sections located between two adjacent channels which are arranged in a pitched roof shape, wherein said multiplicity of plant pots are arranged next to each other and supported in said channels.
16. A culture tray according to claim 15, wherein said plant pots have top edges defining open top ends and wherein said culture tray has ledges on which said top edges of said pots are supported.
17.A culture tray according to claim 15, wherein said pots have top edges which are shaped and dimensioned to cover said channels completely.
18.A culture tray according to claim 15, wherein said housing base wall has wall sections defining a bottom wall for each of said channels and said pots are provided with a bottom wall with at least one hole for the drainage of surplus water which pot bottom wall is spaced above the bottom wall of said channels.
19. A culture tray according to claim 15, wherein said housing base wall has wall sections located between two adjacent channels which are arranged in a roof shape.
20. A culture tray according to claim 15, wherein said housing base wall has sidewalls defining opposite walls of the channels which extend conically downwardly and wherein said multiplicity of pots each have sidewalls which also extend conically downwardly.
21.A culture tray according to claim 16, wherein said top edges of said pots each has two flanges on opposite sides thereof which are supported on said ledges.
22.A culture tray according to claim 15, wherein a plurality of said culture trays are provided and each include means for hooking together said trays in order to effectively form one long row of culture trays.
23.An assembly of culture trays for the rooting of young plants, comprising:

a. ~a plurality of culture trays arranged in a row each comprising an open top housing having a base wall and a peripherally extending edge, said base wall defining a plurality of transversely extending and spaced-apart channels which may accommodate the multiplicity of plant pots, said housing base wall being arranged at a lower position in relation to said peripherally extending edge and said transversely directed channels being provided in the housing base wall at predefinable distances apart from one another wherein said channels are provided with at least one hole through which surplus water may flow into a water-collection system and wherein said housing base wall has wall sections located between two adjacent channels which are arranged in a pitched roof shape, b. ~said row of culture trays including one starting tray, at least one center tray, and one end tray, each of said trays including a surrounding edge at least particularly enclosing said tray and a multiplicity of plant pots arranged in parallel rows, said plant pots having open top ends, and sidewalls depending from said top ends which merge with a pot bottom wall having a hole, and means for hooking said culture trays to each other in a row.
24.An assembly of culture trays according to claim 23, wherein said means for hooking includes each of said trays having at least one trimmed end which is dimensioned and configured to hook into a trimmed end of one of the other trays and wherein said starting tray and said end tray have trimmed end sections at their respective ends directed towards the row of culture trays and wherein said at least one center tray has trimmed ends on both of its ends whereby said starting tray and said end tray can be hooked into said center tray on opposite ends thereof and said center tray can be hooked on opposite ends into an adjacent starting, center or end tray.
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