DE2546306A1 - Automatic plant pot or garden plant watering container - has water inflow and outflow connections with return pipe and absorbent pot lining - Google Patents

Abstract

The water-supply container is air-tight and has a regulated flow. It has a connection for water-discharge and a connection for air-return. The container can be filled by hand or by means of a pump. The container may possess a built-in automatic lever for water-outflow. Incorporated in the water-container can be a multi-seated rotary valve for water outflow and air return, or a tangential rotary valve for separate adjacent water outflow and air return, or a remote-controlled tandem piston valve with a socket for a double hose. The plant-watering box (12) has a sectional lid (14), water-inflow pipe (15) with inlet (18), air-return pipe (16) with inlet (17), and communicating hose (19) to a further watering-box or trough, with overflow (21).

Description

Patent and *. £ "» Karl Burr

Utility model 7920 Heidenheim

Help registration Brahmsstrasse 16

Automatic irrigation system for cultivated and potted plants

field of use

The invention relates to an automatic irrigation device for cultivated and potted plants for horticulture and for home use.

In the horticultural rearing of crops and when keeping potted plants, it is important that the plants be supplied with sufficient water and nutrients and as evenly as possible for optimal growth.

State of the art

It is known that the plant crops to fulfill these tasks sprinkled and watered the potted plants. It is also known that potted plants are kept in vessels which from one in the plant trays, boxes or - Buckets of deeper water storage tub due to the capillary action Let moisture rise from wicks into the potting soil and to the roots of the plants. To control the In the underground 7 / water stand, sight glasses are attached to these vessels.

It is also known that in hydroponics the plants are grown entirely in nutrient solutions.

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Criticism of the state of the art

Watering the plants is cumbersome and watering the soil unevenly. When watering and sprinkling irrigation takes place from the surface of the earth. This has the consequence that valuable nutrients in deeper, for the The roots of the plants are lowered into unreachable layers of soil. A particular example of this are the flooding the nutrient salts from the island of Reichenau to Lake Constance. When irrigating the crops, the water consumption is disproportionate high.

With clay planters, the water evaporates from the pores of the walls and leaves limescale deposits there. In the case of planters with the lower water storage tubs and wicks, their capacity for water is less limited and controlling the water supply not easy enough. In hydroponics, the potting soil has to go with your microbiological soil life due to the size of the roots almost the same amount of nutrient fluid can be replaced.

task

The invention is based on the object of cultivated and potted plants in a simple manner sufficient and for a longer period of time as evenly and easily controllable as possible 7 / water (and nutrients) supply.

solution

This object is achieved according to the invention by an automatic irrigation device in which

a) the water (or the nutrient solution) in a separate, refillable by hand (Figures 2 and 3) and / or by pumping (Pig. 1), airtight and easily controllable water storage container (Figures 1 to 6, number 1) is stored, from which the water is automatically supplied to the plants with a sufficient gradient as required,

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b) the airtight, closable water supply sbehält it for Purpose of the automatic water drainage with a located at its lowest point (Figures 1 to 2 and 4 to 5, point 2) or there opening (Figure 3, point 2) connection for the Y / water drain and with a barometric the connection for the adequate air return (Figures 1 to 6, Number 3) is provided and on separate water storage tanks, in which the water is drained by means of siphons, an automatic siphon device (Figure 3, Paragraph 4) to start the siphon when filling just before closing the water reservoir or before is installed when the pump is switched off,

c) the connection for .the "water drainage either with one of To be shut off manually or automatically shut off in connection with the refilling device of the water reservoir and / or is provided with a remote-controlled shut-off device, the shut-off of the Air return line, for example, with floor rotary valves (Figures 1 and 5, number 5) or with tangential rotary valves (Figure 6, number 6) or with tandem piston valves (Figure 4, number 7) is included,

d) the plants in porous or openwork single or connected plant pots filled with potting soil or sieve-like or grid-like plant baskets (Figures 7 and 8, number 8) or placed in plant boxes,

e) the plant pots, baskets or boxes are appropriately high and designed so that the water through the Planting soil from the bottom of the plant pots, baskets or boxes that is under water or wetted by water can be included,

f) to avoid superfluous evaporation, the upper edges of the plant pots, baskets or boxes are designed so that either the individual plant pots or baskets are placed as close to one another as possible at their upper edges (Figure 7, number 10) and, on the other hand, the individual plant pots or planters Contiguous plant pots or baskets or the plant boxes as close as possible

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Irrigation boxes (Figure 7, number 12) or irrigation tubs set

or suspended at a distance in the openings of whole or divisible spacer cover plates that can be inserted therein (Figure 8, item 13) or adjusted and the plant pots, baskets or boxes with insertable whole or divisible individual cover plates with openings for the plants to grow through (Figures 7 and 7) 8, item 11) can be covered and in addition the space between the plant pots and baskets on the one hand and between the plant pots, baskets or boxes and the watering boxes or tubs on the other hand can be filled with gravel,

g) for plants that belong to a different plant community in the same irrigation box or in the same irrigation tray, such soil moisture is not conducive to excessive moisture for them Irrigation by inserting a suitably thick and larger-pored or larger capillary, slightly absorbent The bottom insert in the plant pots or baskets (Figures and 8, number 9) is reduced,

h) the watering boxes or watering tubs are as thermally insulating as possible and designed so that the individual or the connected or the several plant pots with their upper edges as close together as possible, baskets or boxes in the open watering boxes (Figure 7, number 12) or that the individual plant pots or baskets in the openings of the whole or separable spacer cover plates that can be inserted therein (Figure 8, item 13) Suspended or set as close as possible and additionally with over all plant pots, baskets or boxes, Whole or divisible composite cover plates with openings for the watering boxes or tubs that can be inserted Throughgrowth of the plants (Figures 7 to 9, number 14) can be covered,

i) the irrigation boxes or tubs through the lockable water supply line (Figures 7 and 8, item 15) of and thanks to the air return valve that can be shut off at the same time

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line (Figures 7 and 8, number 16) to the hermetically sealable Water storage tanks are connected to this,

Ic) which is fixed at the height of the appropriate water level or variably adjustable mouth of the air return line in the watering boxes or -troughs (Figures 7 and 8, number 17) is barometrically higher than the mouth of the water supply line (Figures 7 and 8, item 18),

1) on the irrigation boxes or tubs at the height of the normal water level or below drilling or hose connection devices (Figures 7 and 8, number 19) for communicating connection with subsequent watering boxes (Figure 9, number 20) or subsequent watering trays are attached or molded,

m) the irrigation boxes or tubs for outdoor use each with an overflow (Figure 7, item 21) or with a fixed, automatic lifter (Figure 8, number 22) or with one by slipping or screwing a cap over the overflow to one adjustable, automatic lifter for interrupted lifting in excess liquid (Figure 9, Number 23) are provided,

n) similarly designed follow-up watering boxes (Figure 9, item 20) or follow-up watering trays through a pipe or Hose connection at the height of the normal water level or underneath communicating with the irrigation boxes or tubs,

o) the watering boxes or tubs and the subsequent watering boxes or tubs when used outdoors, either embedded in the ground (Figures 7 to 9 left) or placed on the ground (Figures 7 to 9 on the right) with the overflow or with the automatic lifter placed above a septic tank (Figures 7 to 9, point 24) or above a water drainage channel (Figures 7 to 9, Number 25) are arranged, through which, for example, on rainy days, the excess water a deeper

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located water reservoir for reuse or is fed to a receiving water,

p) by an additional heating device, for example as a waste heat heater or as an electrical extra-low voltage heater in the water sump of the irrigation boxes and tubs and the subsequent irrigation boxes (Figure 9, item 26) or tubs, for example, in cool weather, the water is warmed above the dew point temperature of the potting soil and the potting soil is moistened and gently warmed by the condensation of the evaporated water,

q) by an additional one above normal water level of the water sump lying air supply connection the watering boxes or tubs and the subsequent watering boxes or tubs (Figure 9 »Number 27) the potting soil is additionally aerated.

Achievable benefits

The advantages that can be achieved with the invention are in particular in that

a) many plants at the same time from a water storage tank that can be easily controlled for its storage can be supplied sufficiently and evenly with water (and nutrients) for a longer period of time,

b) the water is supplied from the G-rund in an ascending manner and the evaporation of the water due to the additional ground cover for the most part only by the plants takes place and thus the amount of water supplied is optimally used for the structure and metabolism of the plants will,

c) the potting soil with the roots of the plants is always surrounded by relatively saturated, moist air, which at rainy weather through the automatic lifter with interruptions in the air space between the watering boxes or tubs and the plant pots, boxes or baskets are pumped,

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d) the potting soil through additional heating in the water sump the watering boxes or tubs can be heated gently if necessary,

e) the potting soil through an additional connection above the water sump of the watering boxes or tubs can be additionally ventilated for the air supply if necessary,

f) the rearing of cultivated plants also in Gregends poor soils and low water resources are possible,

g) compared to hydroponics, the microbiological soil life for the metabolism of the plants is preserved,

h) the irrigation work in the rearing of cultivated and potted plants for humans is significantly simplified and is facilitated

i) this automatic irrigation system for cultivated and potted plants can be combined with the wick principle can, whereby in this the water supply is increased and easier to control.

Execution of games

In Figures 1 to 6, each identified by the number 1, For example, the airtight and easy-to-control water storage tanks with the connection for the water drainage marked under number 2 and with the one marked under number 3 Connection for adequate air return shown.

in Figure 1, for example, is a tightly closable 7 / water reservoir is shown, which can be refilled by hand or by pumping.

In Figure 3, for example, a water storage tank is shown, in which an automatic lifting device for the water drainage identified under number 4 is molded in is.

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In Figure 1, identified under the number 5, a rotary valve built on the water storage tank with Connection piece for a web double hose line and in Figure 5 under number 5 a rotary valve for the concentric water drain and for the air return and in Figure b under number 6 a tangential rotary valve for the separately adjacent water drain and the air return and in Figure 4 below Number 7 a remotely controllable Tanaem piston valve with connecting piece shown for a double hose line.

In FIGS. 7 and 8, for example, there is in each case an irrigation box marked under number 12

with a divisible cover plate marked under number 14 and

with the water supply pipe marked under number 15 with its mouth marked under number 18 and

with the air return line marked under number 16, which is arranged concentrically to this, for example with their mouth marked under point 17 and

with the communicating pipe or hose connection device marked under number 19 to a subsequent watering box or a subsequent watering tray and

with an overflow marked in Figure 7 under number 21 or

shown with a permanently set automatic lifter marked in Figure 8 under number 22,

which is arranged over a septic tank, shown halfway in FIGS. 7 and 8 and marked under number 24, or over a water drainage channel marked under number 25
and in the

either according to FIG. 7, two square pyramidal blocks, identified under number 8, with their upper edges identified under number 10, placed as close together as possible

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Plant pots, - of which the right plant pot oiit a weakly absorbent floor insert marked under number 9 and one marked under number 11 divisible individual cover plate is set as tightly as possible

or according to FIG. 8, for example, two conical plant pots marked under number 8 are suspended at a distance in the separable spacer cover plates marked under number 13.

In Figure 9, for example, a marked under number 20, iOL watering box designed similar to the watering boxes

with the communicating pipe or hose connection device identified under number 19 and with the under Number 23 marked, by slipping over or screwing a cap over the higher opening, to an adjustable automatic siphon added overflow and

with the additional heating device in the water sump identified under number 26 and

with the additional air supply connection above the normal water level, identified under item 27 shown *

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Claims (1)

Patent claims Karl Burr 7920 Heidenheim Brahmsstraße 16 Automatic irrigation device for cultivated and potted plants, characterized in that a) the water is stored in a separate, airtight, closable and easily controllable water storage container, which can be refilled by hand and / or by pumping (Figures 1 to 6, number 1), b) the airtightly closable water storage tank with a connection for the water drainage located at its lowest point (Figures 1 to 2 and 4 to 5r number 2) or opening there (Figure 3, number 2) and with a barometric connection above the connection for the water drainage is provided for the adequate air return (Figures 1 to 6, number 3), c) the connection for the water drainage and the shut-off for the adequate air return line with a manually shut off (Figures 1 and 5, number 5 , Figure 6, item 6) or with automatic shut-off or with a remote-controlled shut-off device (Figure 4, number 7) is provided, d) the plants are placed in porous or openwork individual or connected plant pots or sieve-like or grid-like plant baskets (Figures 7 and 8, Ziirer 8) or in plant boxes filled with potting soil, e) the Plant pots, baskets or boxes are appropriately high and designed in such a way that the water can be picked up from the bottom of the plant pots, baskets or boxes, which is below or is wetted at the front, - 1 1 - 709816/0150 ORIGINAL INSPECTED f) the upper edges of the plant pots, baskets or boxes are designed so that the individual plant pots or baskets are placed as close to one another as possible at their upper edges (Figure 7, number 10) and the individual or the plant as close as possible juxtaposed or connected plant pots or baskets and the plant boxes as close as possible in watering boxes (Figure 7, number 12) or watering tubs or the plant pots or baskets with Distance into the openings of whole or divisible spacer cover plates that can be inserted therein (Figure 8, number 13) or set and the plant pots, baskets or boxes with insertable whole or divisible individual cover plates with openings for the plants to grow through (Figures 7 and 8, number 11) are covered, g) the excessive watering for certain plants is reduced by placing a larger-pore or larger capillary soil insert in the plant pots or baskets (Figures 7 and 8, number 9), h) the watering boxes or watering tubs are designed in such a way that the individual or several with their upper edges as close together as possible or the connected plant pots and baskets or the plant boxes in the open watering boxes (Figure 7, number 12) can be hung or that the individual plant pots or baskets in the openings of the Irrigation boxes or tubs insertable whole or divisible from Standing cover plates (figure 8, number 13) hung or adjusted as tightly as possible and in addition with full or divisible cover plates with openings for the plants to grow through that reach over all plant pots, baskets or boxes and can be inserted into the watering boxes or tubs (figures 7 to 9 , Item 14) can be covered, i) the watering boxes or tubs through the lockable water supply (Figures 7 and 8, item 15) and air return line (Figures 7 and 8, item 16) to the airtight - 12 - 709816/0150 lockable water storage tank are connected to this, k) the outlet of the air return line in the irrigation boxes (Figures 7 and 8, item 17) or tubs, which is fixed or variably adjustable at the height of the appropriate water level, is barometrically higher than the outlet of the water supply line (Figures 7 and 8 , Item 18) 1) on the irrigation boxes or tubs at the height of the normal water level or below pipe or hose connection devices (Figures 7 and 8, number 19) for communicating connection with subsequent irrigation boxes (Figure 9, item 20) or subsequent irrigation tubs are attached or molded, m) the irrigation boxes or tubs for outdoor use each with an overflow (Figure 7, point 21) or with a permanently set automatic lifter (Figure 8, number 22) or with one that is slipped over or screwing on a cap over the overflow to an adjustable automatic, for interrupted siphon Excess liquid supplemented siphon (Figure 9, number 23) are provided, n) similarly designed follow-up watering boxes (Figure 9, item 20) or follow-up watering trays through a pipe or Hose connection at or below normal water level communicating with the watering boxes or tubs are connected, o) the watering boxes or tubs and the subsequent watering • storage boxes or tubs when used outdoors, each with the overflow or with the automatic lifter placed over a septic tank (Figures 7 to 9, number 24) or over a drainage channel (Figures 7 to 9> Paragraph 25) are arranged, p) in the water sump of the watering boxes and tubs and the Subsequent watering boxes and tubs an additional heating device is housed (Figure 9, number 26) 709816/0150 q) on the irrigation boxes or tubs and on the joint watering boxes or tubs additional over Air supply connections lying at the normal water level of the water sump are appropriate. 709816/0150