EP0337319B1 - Verfahren und Maschine zum Ballieren von Strauchpflanzen - Google Patents

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EP0337319B1
EP0337319B1 EP89106177A EP89106177A EP0337319B1 EP 0337319 B1 EP0337319 B1 EP 0337319B1 EP 89106177 A EP89106177 A EP 89106177A EP 89106177 A EP89106177 A EP 89106177A EP 0337319 B1 EP0337319 B1 EP 0337319B1
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Bernd Dipl.-Ing. Helms
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Kordes W Sohne Rosenschulen GmbH and Co KG
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B25/00—Packaging other articles presenting special problems
    • B65B25/02—Packaging agricultural or horticultural products

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  • the invention relates to a method for balling shrub plants, in particular rose plants, in which a trough is formed from wire mesh in the form of a flat lattice section which has projecting wire ends on at least one of two opposite edges, the trough partially with a moisture-retaining substrate such as Peat is filled, the roots of the lying plant, which have been freed from soil, are placed on the substrate, further substrate is applied to the roots, the wire mesh is deformed into a tube by bending the two edges mentioned, and the edges are firmly connected to one another by inserting wire ends from the other edge through meshes along one edge, and then bending these wire ends.
  • a trough is formed from wire mesh in the form of a flat lattice section which has projecting wire ends on at least one of two opposite edges, the trough partially with a moisture-retaining substrate such as Peat is filled, the roots of the lying plant, which have been freed from soil, are placed on the substrate, further substrate is applied to the roots, the wire mesh is deformed into
  • the invention further relates to a machine for baling shrub plants, in particular rose plants, with at least one trough onto which a wire mesh can be placed.
  • German utility model 1857927 is a hand-operated device for balling shrubs plants known, in which a mat made of elastic material is suspended from a first rigid horizontal bar on the top of a box-shaped, rectangular in plan view container. This bar is pivotally mounted on the container by means of a linkage about an axis parallel to it. The mat hangs from the first bar at rest, forms a trough of approximately semicircular cross-section in the container, extends over the upper edge of the container removed from the first bar and has a free end to which a second rigid bar provided with a handle is fastened .
  • a wire mesh is placed on the trough formed by the mat, some bale material is poured onto it, the plant with its roots is placed on it, the bale material is poured on again and then the second bar with the handle attached to the free end of the elastic mat against the slightly raised one , first bar attached to the boom pressed.
  • wire ends at the free end of the wire mesh are to be inserted through gaps at its opposite end and bent by pressing on the first strip, thereby closing the cylinder formed by the wire mesh.
  • this known device Compared to the purely manual balling of shrub plants, this known device is advantageous; their handling is quite cumbersome. It is only with great skill and mostly incomplete that wire ends at one end of the wire mesh can penetrate the mesh at the other end in such a way that the wire ends can then easily be bent like hooks in order to securely close the cylinder formed. Mechanization is hardly conceivable because the wire mesh bends differently from case to case.
  • Balling the plants is done by sending everything to the plants. For this purpose, it is common to combine a large number of balled plants in a bundle, for example placing them in a box or on a pallet. In this case, cavities remain between bales which are cylindrically enveloped in the known manner, which mean a very considerable loss of usable container volume and promote drying out of the plant bales during transport and storage.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object of providing a method and a machine which make it possible to ball rose plants and other comparable shrub plants in such a way that they have a uniform cross section, can be assembled into containers in a space-saving manner and are therefore better protected against drying out and damage.
  • the plant bale Due to the inventive folding of the wire mesh along precisely defined edge lines, the plant bale has a regularly polygonal, in particular square, cross-section, which ensures that free wire ends can penetrate into opposite meshes of the wire mesh in a safe and thus automated manner, so that the covering formed by the wire mesh is reliably stable . Because of the polygonal cross-sectional shape of the bales, cavities between bales combined into a bundle can be avoided. This will keep the plants out protected from drying. Even when the plants according to the invention are removed from a larger container, the wire mesh covering remains securely closed, which ensures that the plant bales are retained even during planting without any appreciable loss of substrate.
  • the purpose of the machine shown is to embed a rose plant 10, which is delivered with roots 12 freed from soil, in a moisture-retaining substrate 14, for example peat, and to coat the substrate 14 with a wire mesh 16, which in the process has the shape of a slim tube assumes the same square cross-section over its entire length.
  • the wire mesh 16 should extend into the vicinity of the grafting point 18 of the rose plant 10 from which the noble shoots 20 start.
  • the wire mesh 16 has rectangular meshes 22 which are elongated in the horizontal direction. Two edges 24 and 26 of the wire mesh 16 which are vertical when the rose plant 10 is upright are each formed by a vertical wire which extends along a surface line of the tube. The horizontal wires of the wire mesh 16 are briefly cut off at the edge 24, but form wire ends 28 which extend considerably beyond the other edge 26. In the final state of the planting pack, these wire ends 28 are inserted through a stitch 22 adjacent to the edge 24 and bent over such that the both edges 24 and 26 are firmly connected to each other on all meshes 22.
  • the tube thus formed by the wire mesh 16, which contains the substrate 14 and the roots 12, is finally inserted in a manner not shown in a film bag 30 made of biaxially shrinkable film, which extends to the height of the upper ends of the noble shoots 20 and all around the finishing point 18 is shrunk by external heat so that the film bag 30 closely encloses the tube formed by the wire mesh 16.
  • the tube formed by the wire mesh 16 can be circular cylindrical, but preferably has a polygonal cross section, which is square in the example shown. This cross section arises from the fact that a rectangular section of the wire mesh 16 is deformed by a right-angled folding along a central first edge line 32 into a depression which is initially filled with approximately half of the intended amount of substrate 14, whereupon the roots 12 of a plant 10 are placed on and the second half of the substrate 14 is applied. Then the wire mesh 16 is folded along a second edge line 34 which lies in the middle between the first edge line 32 and the edge 26 at which the protruding wire ends 28 are arranged. Finally, the wire mesh 16 is folded along a third edge line 36 which lies in the middle between the first edge line 32 and the edge 24. The wire ends 28 pierce through a mesh 22 at the edge 24 and are then bent like a hook, whereby the edges 24 and 26 are firmly connected to one another.
  • the folds along the edge lines 32 and 34 can be carried out simultaneously before the substrate 14 is applied and the roots 12 of a plant 10 are placed on.
  • the machine shown has a machine frame 38 which carries a peat container 40 with an agitator 42 arranged therein.
  • the machine frame 38 has a stationary column 44, in which an arm star with a plurality of horizontal arms 46 is rotatably mounted.
  • an arm star with a plurality of horizontal arms 46 is rotatably mounted.
  • six arms 46 are provided at intervals of 60 °.
  • Six processing stations are arranged at corresponding angular intervals around the column 44, namely an embossing station A, a first filling station B, an insertion station C, a second filling station D, a closing station E and a removal station F.
  • At the end of each arm 46 there is a trough 48 attached that it passes through all processing stations A to F with each revolution of the arm star.
  • Each trough 48 has two side walls 50 and 52 which are inclined at 45 ° to the horizontal, enclose an angle of 90 ° with one another and thereby form an apex 54 which extends at right angles to the associated arm 46.
  • Each of the two walls 50 and 52 is at its edge which is distant from the apex 54 and is parallel to this connected by a hinge 56 or 58 to flap 60 or 62.
  • the flap 60 lies in the same plane as the wall 50, while the flap 62 lies in the same plane as the wall 52.
  • a plurality of hook-shaped holding devices 64 are arranged on each of the hinges 56 and 58.
  • a reel 66 is mounted, from which the wire mesh 16 can be rolled off.
  • the wire mesh 16 runs over a guide 68 and from there horizontally through a cutting device 70 to a clamping device 72, which temporarily holds the respective front end of the wire mesh 16.
  • the cutting device 70 cuts off a piece of wire mesh 16, the length of which is noticeably greater than the distance between the free edges at the top of the flaps 60 and 62 in their rest position. This is shown in Fig.
  • stamp 74 which has a cross section complementary to the shape of each trough 48 including open flaps 60 and 62 and can be lowered into the trough 48 then standing in the embossing station A during each working cycle in such a way that the wire mesh 16 lying thereon along its central one , first edge line 32 is folded at right angles.
  • the trough 48 in question reaches the first filling station B in the next working cycle.
  • an allocation device 76 is arranged, which allows a predetermined amount of substrate 14 to trickle into the trough formed by the wire mesh 16. This amount of substrate 14 is approximately sufficient to fill the trough formed by the wire mesh 16 up to the vicinity of the hinges 56 and 58, to which the wire mesh 16 is held by the hook-shaped holding devices 64 pivoted through a mesh 22 each.
  • the said trough 48 reaches the insertion station C, in which a conveyor belt 78 for feeding the rose plants 10 ends. There, a rose plant 10 is placed by a surveillance person on the wire mesh 16 prepared in the manner described that the roots 12 are lightly pressed into the substrate 14. After the next working cycle, the said trough 48 comes to rest in the second filling station D under a further allocation device 80, which allows a further predetermined amount of the substrate 14 to trickle onto the roots 12, so that these are completely covered.
  • a stamp 82 which, in alternation with the metering device 80, can be displaced into a position vertically above the trough 48 and lowered from this position, so that it compacts the substrate 14 and compresses the roots 12 somewhat.
  • the plunger 84 is activated first so that it pivots the flap 60 through 90 ° into a position parallel to the wall 52. As a result, the wire mesh 16 is bent at right angles along the second edge line 34. The edge 26 is then perpendicular to the first edge line 32; the wire ends 28, which extend parallel to the wall 52 upwards, are exposed, ie are not covered by the flap 60. Then the plunger 86 is activated so that it also pivots the flap 62 by 90 ° and thereby folds the wire mesh 16 along the third edge line 36 at a right angle.
  • the wire ends 28 pierce through a stitch 22 of the wire mesh 16 adjacent to the edge 24.
  • the The flap 60 is opened again and a further tappet 88 executes a pendulum-like movement, according to FIG. 9 in a clockwise direction, in which it bends the wire ends 28.
  • the same plunger 88 - or another plunger that can only be moved vertically - is lowered in such a way that it completely bends the wire ends 28.
  • the wire mesh 16 now forms a prismatic tube of square cross section which is securely closed along a surface line.
  • the said trough 48 reaches the removal station F.
  • a gripper 90 which can be moved vertically and horizontally and which has a plurality of hooks 92 on a trough 94 which is open at the bottom.
  • the hooks 92 are controlled in such a way that when the gripper 90 is lowered they engage in the two upper surfaces of the prismatic tube formed by the wire mesh 16 and grasp them.
  • the trough 94 compresses this tube even slightly, so that the substrate 14 contained therein is compressed even more strongly and the wire ends are pressed completely into the interior of the tube, so that they are used in later manipulations, for example when inserting the balled rose plant 10 in a foil bag 30, can not interfere.

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  • Agronomy & Crop Science (AREA)
  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
  • Cultivation Receptacles Or Flower-Pots, Or Pots For Seedlings (AREA)
  • Packaging Of Special Articles (AREA)
  • Fertilizers (AREA)
  • Transplanting Machines (AREA)
  • Pretreatment Of Seeds And Plants (AREA)
  • Soil Working Implements (AREA)
  • Chemical And Physical Treatments For Wood And The Like (AREA)
  • Control Of Steam Boilers And Waste-Gas Boilers (AREA)
  • Sliding-Contact Bearings (AREA)
  • Diaphragms For Electromechanical Transducers (AREA)
  • Cultivation Of Plants (AREA)
  • Basic Packing Technique (AREA)
  • Table Devices Or Equipment (AREA)
  • Securing Of Glass Panes Or The Like (AREA)
  • Sanitary Device For Flush Toilet (AREA)
  • Containers And Plastic Fillers For Packaging (AREA)
  • Control And Other Processes For Unpacking Of Materials (AREA)
EP89106177A 1988-04-13 1989-04-07 Verfahren und Maschine zum Ballieren von Strauchpflanzen Expired - Lifetime EP0337319B1 (de)

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JP (1) JPH0667292B2 (ja)
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CA (1) CA1330012C (ja)
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HU (1) HU205734B (ja)
LT (1) LT3432B (ja)
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PL (1) PL160467B1 (ja)
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