DE102008045880A1 - Device for holding cutting for planting in propagation soil, has holder i.e. holding rod, for holding cutting, and penetrated into planting bed, where planting bed of cutting has soft base - Google Patents

Abstract

The device has a holder (2) i.e. holding rod, for holding a stem (3) of a cutting for a planting in propagation soil. The holder holding the cutting is penetrated into a planting bed (8). The planting bed of the cutting has a soft base. A soft layer (1) includes foam plastic, rubber, felt or fine bristle film (7). The holder includes a rounding (10) at a tip in a holder side. A small elevation is produced in a hollow space when the holders are pushed together.

Description

State of the art

In Nurseries will be many people mainly for plugging used by cuttings in potting soil. This work is manual done by hand and is very time consuming. To have to in the individual, large garden centers very many Persons are employed to the very high quantities of cuttings of each plant species, stuck.

At the moment efforts are underway in the field of engineering of garden centers to automate this work: more or less the insertion of cuttings into the growing soil of pallets or pots. This has also been successful for one culture or another - not for different cultures in one machine. (See, for example, patent NL 1033013 or contribution from the Trade journal DEGA 23/005 ). In these devices, the partial and head cuttings are first preassembled or automatically fed into the individual receptacles specifically associated with the culture to further process the cuttings and mate. The cuttings are in the operations z. B cut to length, checked for eyes, checked for leaves, etc. The operations, testing and selection of the cuttings to be inserted are made with optical systems, handling equipment or robots.

• – auf die jeweilige Kultur und Größe des Stecklings müssen in der Maschine die Aufnahmeeinheiten komplett abgestimmt und ausgetauscht werden
• – an der automatischen Maschine muss man für die Kultur bzw. auf den neuen Steckling abgestimmt, aufwendige, schwierige Einstellungen vornehmen
• – man braucht großes notwendiges technisches Verständnis der Einrichter zur Maschine, (welche man oft in den Gärtnereien nicht hat)
• – will der Gärtner die jetzt produzierte Kultur auf eine andere Kultur, wegen Wirtschaftlichkeitsproblemen umstellen; braucht er wieder neue Aufnahmen für die neue Stecklingskultur oder sogar eine neue Maschine.
• – es werden entsprechende, hohe Kapitaleinsätze der Aufnahmen, abgestimmt auf die jeweilige Stecklingskulturen, notwendig. Je mehr der Gärtner Kulturen hat, um so größer wird dieser Kapitaleinsatz.

There are the following disadvantages:

• - The recording units must be completely tuned and exchanged in the machine to the respective culture and size of the cuttings
• - On the automatic machine you have to tune for the culture or on the new cutting, make complicated, difficult settings
• - one needs a great necessary technical understanding of the setters to the machine (which one often does not have in the nurseries)
• - the gardener wants to change the now produced culture to another culture, because of economic problems; he needs new shots for the new cuttings or even a new machine.
• - Appropriate, high capital expenditures of the recordings, adjusted to the respective cuttings cultures, are necessary. The more the gardener has cultures, the greater this capital investment becomes.

Task of the invention and solution

It a solution is sought by the gardener as possible all crops adapted to his operation a plug-in machine can use in which he all or as many as possible Can handle cultures with a machine. Safe gripping all cuttings to be processed by the gardener, without changing the recordings, was made the task.

The many elaborate shots adapted to the culture of the plant, is solved according to claim 1 characterized that the cuttings without appropriately matched to the cutting recordings many types of cuttings safely from the gripper for the plug into the grower soil.

The Raw cuttings are made from a tangle of cuttings isolated, single cuttings entwined and on the pad or placed on the conveyor automatically or manually and removed with the gripper. It can often happen that the Trunk of the cutting directly geometric at the level of the edition or on the conveyor belt is z. B. grass cuttings, which has no lateral leaves or shoots. Thus, the Cutting with the gripper is no longer secure and firmly gripped for insertion be, because the stem of the cuttings directly on the edition level lies. This problem is solved and solved by the invention

It was made to the task that the cuttings of a pad or a conveyor belt away safely and firmly can.

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soft Edition, such. As rubber, foam, felt, bristles

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grab for cutting

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tribe of the cuttings

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Runners Leaves of the cuttings

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Cool

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survey the cow

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fine bristles

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edition level

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cuttings

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rounding off on the gripping side

embodiment

The The invention is based on preferred embodiments illustrated in detail with reference to the figures and described. Showing:

1 a view of the tongs 2 in the open and unrecognized state of the cuttings 9 .

2 a view of the immersed gripper 2 in the soft pad 1 of the cuttings 9

3 three views in the gripping state of the gripper 2 immersed in the soft pad 1 the cuttings; Grip view, side view, top view

4 Side view of the submerged gripper 2 in the soft bristles 7

It follows the explanation and the operation of the invention based on the drawings

The cutting 9 is occasionally on the soft pad 1 (7) the edition level B. The soft edition 1 can z. As rubber, foam, felt, or bristle coating 7 , be trained to handle the gripper 2 in the soft material 1 dip and then the trunk 3 of the cuttings 9 sure to grab. The immersion in the soft material 1 has the advantage that when the gripper 2 in the open state, the side shoots, leaves 4 of the cuttings in the Kuhle 5 with penetration and can not damage. With this process, the trunk is supported 3 of the cuttings 9 at the circulation level 8th , (please refer 3 , Side view and top view) and the gripper 2 can the trunk 3 when dipping the gripper 2 sure grab. The gripper 2 has a rounding at the top 10 on. With this rounding off 10 can the submerged gripper 2 while gripping the cuttings 9 on the soft pad 1 easy to move or slip, thus pinching the gripper 2 the soft material 1 not together. This will make the soft material 1 when lifting the cuttings not pulled up. When moving the gripper together 2 results in the Kuhle 5 a small survey 6 , please refer 2 and 3 , This means a compression of the soft material 1 takes place and thus no jamming of the gripper, trunk or leaves with the soft material 1 can come about.

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Cited patent literature

• - NL 1033013 [0002]

Cited non-patent literature

• - Trade journal DEGA 23/005 [0002]

Claims (5)

Device for gripping cuttings 9 , characterized in that the support plane 8th the cuttings 9 has a soft base Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the soft support 1 z. As foam, rubber, felt or fine bristles 7 can be. Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the support 1 fine bristles 7 exhibit. Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the gripper 2 for gripping the cuttings 9 in the edition 8th can penetrate Apparatus according to claim 2, characterized in that the grippers on the gripper side rounding 10 exhibit