DE8627946U1 - Freshness device for cut plants - Google Patents

Description

DESCRIPTION Freshness device for cutting plants

The only known freshness-preserving devices are chemical in nature. A solution substrate is poured into the water container, which mixes with the water that the plant is still able to absorb to a small extent.

However, if you do not use these chemical preservatives, the difference is small, meaning that their effect is minimal. The cut plant will therefore wither in almost the same period of time.
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The invention is based on the object of being able to significantly extend the freshness of cut plants.

The invention solves this problem by the water collection device being designed as a closed container that has several hole-like openings through an expandable air chamber into which the cut plant stems are inserted, and a small hand pump in the form of a rubber bead is connected to both chambers via a hose. If the hand pump is activated by briefly pressing on it, the small air chamber expands to close the hole-like openings to the water collection chamber, in whose remaining air space, after filling with water, an overpressure is created at the same time, which drives the water up the capillaries of the cut plant stems. This compensates for the reduced absorbency of the cut plants due to the lack of roots and the resulting insufficient water absorption, which leads to them wilting prematurely. Mari can carry out this process of

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Briefly operate the hand pump, similar to watering a plant with roots once a day.
The freshness-keeping device can be designed in the form of a solid container such as a vase, onto the body of which the pump body is then integrated, or as a vase insert, in which the water collection chamber is designed as a transparent, moldable bag and the expandable air chamber surrounding the hole openings is designed relatively firmly, so that the water chamber is inserted into the belly of the vase and the air chamber with the opening holes to the water chamber is located above the narrowing typical of vases. In this case the pump body can be integrated on the air chamber. In order to be able to adapt the air chamber to vase openings of different sizes, the air chamber can have a kneadable mass integrated on the edge. The air chamber and water collection chamber can be firmly connected to one another, so that the entire device is simply dipped into water to fill it, or the filling and emptying process can be made easier using a plug connection or a plug. In the case of wide containers with straight rising walls, i.e. without a belly or constriction, the device can also simply be placed on the floor.

The advantages achieved by the invention are that the cut plants live significantly longer, in particular because chemical substrates are more effective.

In the following, the invention is briefly explained using drawings showing two exemplary embodiments;

Fig. 1 a freshness-keeping device designed as a vase with integrated transparent air pumpK),

Fig. 2 a typical vase with a belly and a constriction (6) and expansion in the upper area and one as

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Freshness-keeping device designed as a vase insert, whereby here the water chamber (d) designed as a deformable bag is inserted into the belly of the vase, and the air chamber (2) with the insertion openings (3) is located above the constriction (6) of the vase and

Fig. 3 shows a simple container with straight, rising walls without narrowing or widening in the upper area and a freshness-keeping device designed as an insert, which is placed on the bottom of the container together with the preferably relatively rigid opening head (2).

Claims (1)

-PATENT CLAIMS Freshness keeping device for cut plants, characterized in that it consists of two chambers (1, 2), one for collecting the water (1) and a small, expandable chamber (2) which rubber-like surrounds several hole-like openings (3) to the water chamber, and a small hand pump (4) in the form of a rubber bead which is connected to both chambers via a hose (5), whereby the two chambers can be connected to one another firmly or by a plug connection, and the glass holding device can be designed in a solid form, e.g. a vase (Fig. 1), to which the pump body (4) is then integrated, or as a vase insert (Fig. 2, 3), in which the water chamber is designed as a deformable, transparent bag (1) and the small chamber (2) surrounding the openings is preferably designed firmly, so that in vases with a constriction (6) it comes to lie in the upper area above the constriction and can be moved by suitable means such as e.g. integrated modelling clay on the edge of the small air chamber is deformable and can therefore be adapted to vase openings of different sizes. « m « « * «.■ ta