Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
  • A01G—HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING
  • A01G17/00—Cultivation of hops, vines, fruit trees, or like trees
  • A01G17/04—Supports for hops, vines, or trees
  • A01G17/06—Trellis-work
  • A01G17/08—Tools e.g. clips for attaching hops, vines, or boughs to trellis-work; Tying devices
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
  • A01G—HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING
  • A01G9/00—Cultivation in receptacles, forcing-frames or greenhouses; Edging for beds, lawn or the like
  • A01G9/12—Supports for plants; Trellis for strawberries or the like
  • A01G9/128—Fixing of plants to supports, e.g. by means of clips
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
  • B65H49/00—Unwinding or paying-out filamentary material; Supporting, storing or transporting packages from which filamentary material is to be withdrawn or paid-out
  • B65H49/18—Methods or apparatus in which packages rotate
  • B65H49/20—Package-supporting devices
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
  • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
  • B65H2701/30—Handled filamentary material
  • B65H2701/37—Tapes
  • B65H2701/375—Strapping tapes

Definitions

• the present invention relates to the field of cultivation of vines, market gardening, nurseries or horticulture, and in particular adaptations to ensure in the best conditions the attachment or binding of plants to supports (trellises, stakes, pegs, trellising wires, etc ).
• the bonding of the vine consists of the establishment of links joining the branches to the trellis son in order to maintain and guide the vegetation in its growth.
• the document FR2686483 describes a method of binding the vine or other palissable plants consisting of implementing by means of a device, a link consisting of an adhesive tape, to put this link around the branch to be immobilized and the trellis wire, and bring the two ends closer to the adhesive sides facing each other.
• This device comprises a body which encloses in its rear part a roll of adhesive tape and on which is articulated, about an axis, a branch whose anterior end can, during the actuation of the clamp, come into contact with the end of a fixed branch attached to the body.
• the rotation of the branch is accompanied by a plurality of springs and its end comprises a pivoting knife whose movement is indexed and on which sticks the end of the ribbon.
• tape gripping means gripping the free end by means of particularly complex configurations making the device particularly expensive.
• the tape is no longer adhesive and is associated with a collar, a clip fastening together the two ends of the fastening loop.
• the tool consists of a straight housing arm with a link mechanism and a selection arm that is hinged to a feed arm for the wire.
• the selection arm is guided on the arm of the housing by a guide groove which closes the ends of the arm of the housing and the selection arm. It acts in two operations, first as a single lever to close the feed arm, then as a two-armed lever to fix and then cut the wire.
• the user positions the clamp open so that the two jaws of the open clamp are positioned beyond and on either side of the two elements to be connected together (for example: a trellis wire and a shoot),
• a second closure of the jaws ensures the meeting of two ends of the loop and the cutting of the wire, -
• the continuity of the traction exerted by the user of the clamp ensures the rotation of the jaw holding the two ends of the loop formed so as to ensure the twisting and therefore the attachment.
• Such a device is also expensive. Its complexity makes it unreliable and the service life of some of these components is short. It also has the disadvantage of using a wire type wire which can hurt some plants, which limits the possible applications and therefore the commercial scale of such a tool.
• JP2008072928 discloses a binding machine designed to reliably bond, causing no loss of web and allowing adjustment of tying conditions.
• the portable clamp-type plant binding device comprises at least two articulated arms and a fastening-type feed subassembly
• the device comprising in one of the articulated arms, said first arm, a subassembly for retaining a first end of the attachment link for the purpose of providing a length for the formation of the loop,
• the first end of the attachment link to be retained being carried by the other arm said second arm, the retention of said first end being made during the closure of the clamp.
• This device is remarkable in that said retaining subassembly is formed of a fixed jaw and a movable jaw sliding in the first arm to move from a clamping position of the first end of the attachment link carried by the second arm during the operations of providing a length of the fastening link and forming the loop, at a loosening position during the fastening link cutting operation and for allow closing of the loop.
• the rotational movement of the arms actuates a cam slide and preformed a cam path with which cooperates a finger or roller associated with the movable jaw so as to synchronize the rotational movement of articulated arms with the translational movement of the movable jaw.
• This cutting means comprises a movable blade secured to the second arm supporting the first end of the fastening link and the fixed jaw secured to the first arm which serves as a counterblade.
• the use of a blade and a counterblade ensures a good cut of the split link during the formation of the loop.
• Such a cutting means can adapt to several types of link including flexible links armed.
• the closing of the clamp is performed by a lever additional equipping the device and one end of which is articulated on the first arm and whose middle portion is articulated on the second arm in order to close the clamp, that is to say the approximation of the anterior ends of the first; and second arm.
• the bringing together implemented by the action of the hand of the user between the respective rear ends of the first arm and said lever causes the approximation of the front ends of the first and second arms.
• said fixed jaw is, according to another particularly advantageous feature of the invention, preformed with a central cavity in which the two ends of the loop just formed.
• the first arm further comprises a rotational drive subassembly comprising two elastic elements between which are retained the two ends of the loop during said rotation for rotational drive and therefore kinking.
• These two elastic elements are arranged in front of the fixed jaw of the first arm. They cooperate during closure with a positioning fork equipping the second arm being disposed at the front of the cutting blade and which, when the second closure of the clamp, has support the two strands of the loop formed between the two elastic elements. To do this, the two branches of said fork are arranged to position respectively at the front and rear of said elastic elements.
• the rotation of the rotating drive subassembly is triggered by a traction of the user on the clamp and by the implementation of a helical link transforming this movement. traction in a rotational movement.
• said drive subassembly is equipped with a preformed rod of a helical groove cooperating with balls.
• the device of the invention is remarkable in that it is equipped with a subassembly supplying a fastening link comprising a removable reel equipped with externally preformed flanges. a projecting shaft for cooperating with an open bearing formed in the rear part of the first arm.
• said projection starts with a hemispherical shape extended by said shaft, convex hemispherical shape cooperating with a preformed concave equivalent shape at the open bearing guiding the reel on the clamp.
• another object of the invention relates to a fastener feed subassembly which is remarkable in that it allows to feed the portable binding device according to the characteristics described above taken in combination or not.
• This power subassembly is remarkable in that it comprises a removable reel equipped with flanges preformed externally of a projecting shaft to cooperate with an open bearing formed in the rear part of the first arm.
• said projection starts with a hemispherical shape extended by said shaft, convex hemispherical shape cooperating with a preformed concave equivalent shape at the open bearing guiding the reel on the clamp.
• Another object of the invention relates to a remarkable fastening link in that it is contained in said feed subassembly according to the characteristics described above taken in combination or not for the operation of the portable device for binding plants according to the characteristics described above taken in combination or not.
• the fastening link is constituted by a flexible plastic strip and armed with a wire or metal inserted into said strip.
• a link allows the robust ligation of the most fragile plants without risk of injury to the plant.
• the fastening link forms a coil having a width of between twenty-seven and thirty millimeters with a central orifice having a diameter of between twenty-seven and thirty millimeters.
• the supply subassembly according to any one of the features described above taken in combination or not is remarkable in that it is sized to accommodate a coil with the dimensions defined above.
• Figure 1 is a schematic drawing of an external side view of an embodiment according to the invention of a clamp in the closed position
• Figure 2 is a drawing of the clamp of Figure 1 in the open position
• Figures 3 to 13 are schematic drawings of a selection of subsets of the clamp of Figure 1 explaining the operation;
• Fig. 14 is a schematic drawing of a perspective view of the front end of the first arm of the clamp
• Fig. 15 is a schematic drawing of a cut rear perspective view of the feed subassembly installed at the rear of the first arm of the clamp
• Fig. 16 is a schematic drawing of a side view of an embodiment according to the invention of the fixing link coil
• Figure 17 is a schematic drawing of a top view of the coil of Figure 16.
• the binding clamp referenced P as a whole provides for the creation of binding loops according to a method the steps of which will be described with reference to the drawings of FIGS. 3 to 15.
• This clamp P comprises a first arm formed by the body 100 on which is articulated a second arm 200 and an additional lever 300.
• the preferred embodiment but not limited to the clamp shown is manual.
• the user grasps the gripper P with one hand at the medial portion of the body 100 and the rear end of the lever 300. It ensures the passage of the open position illustrated by the drawing of FIG. in the closed position illustrated by the drawing of Figure 1 by clamping his hand which provides pivoting of the lever according to the arrow Fl.
• the positioning of the various axes of articulation results in the pivoting of the front end 210 of the second arm 200 along the arrow F2 to join the front end 110 of the body 100 thus going to close the clamp P.
• a spring R (see Figure 3) ensures the return to the open position.
• a complete cycle requires two closures of the P-clamp.
• This gripper P also comprises, in the rear part, a fastener feed subassembly 400 comprising a removable reel 410 hosting a coil 430 (see Figures 16 and 17) fastening link.
• the link 401 is preferably a flat flexible link forming a plastic strip armed with a wire and is in a continuous bond wound to form a coil 430 (see Figures 16 and 17) being installed in the reel 410.
• This link 401 passes through the body until reaching, guided by bearings and or pulleys, the front end of the second arm 200.
• the reel 410 is freely rotatable on its axis.
• FIG. 3 is a side view of the clamp P to which a plurality of constituent elements not participating in the illustrated action have been removed, which makes it possible to see in particular the contents of the body 100 whose envelope exterior has been removed. Similarly, the lever 300 controlling the movement of the clamp P has also been removed.
• the gripper P comprises in the body 100 of the first arm, a retaining subassembly 500 of the first end 402 of the fastener link 401 for providing a length for the formation of the buckle 403. (see Figure 11).
• This first end 402 of the fastening link 401 to be retained is carried in a first step by the anterior end 210 of the second arm 200, the retention of said first end by the front end 110 being made during the first closing of the clamp. P.
• the open clamp P is positioned by its user so that the elements E1 and E2 to be connected together are placed between the two arms 100 and 200.
• Said retention subassembly 500 is formed of a fixed jaw 510 and a movable jaw 520 sliding along the double arrow F3 in the body 100 of the first arm to move from a clamping position of the first end 402 of the link.
• fastener 401 carried by the second arm 200 during the operations of providing a length of the fastening link 401 and the formation of the buckle 403, at a loosening position during the fastening link cutting operation 401 and to allow closure of the loop 403.
• the translational movement (double arrow F3) must be synchronized with a part of the rotational movement (arrow F2) of the second arm 200.
• the movement rotation (arrow F2) of the second arm 200 actuates a slide 600 movable in translation (double arrow F4) along an axis perpendicular to the axis of displacement (double arrow F3) of the movable jaw 520.
• This slide 600 is guided in translation by a slide 120 fixed in the body 100.
• This slide 600 forms a cam being preformed with a cam path 610 with which a finger or roller 530 cooperates associated with the movable jaw 520.
• This cam path 610 has oriented surfaces for guiding, advancing, back or hold the movable jaw 520 according to the desired position opposite that of the front end 210 of the second arm 200.
• This anterior end 210 of the second arm 200 comprises a cutting means comprising a movable blade 230 integral with the movements of the second arm 200 and supporting the first end 402 of the fastening link 401.
• the fixed jaw 510 integral with the body 100 first arm serves as a counter -blade.
• said fixed jaw 510 is preformed with a central cavity 511 in which the two ends of the newly formed loop 403 are introduced.
• the body 100 of the first arm also guides a rotational drive subassembly 700 comprising two elastic elements 710 and 720 between which the two ends of the fastening link 401 are held when said rotation for rotation and thus kinking.
• the two elastic elements 710 and 720 are the ends juxtaposed by folding / bending of the same flexible metal wire element 730.
• These two elastic elements 710 and 720 are disposed at the front of the fixed jaw 510 of the body 100 of the first arm and cooperate in the closed position of the clamp P with a fork 240 for setting in position equipping the front end 210 of the second arm 200 at the front of the cutting blade 230 and which during the second closing of the clamp P, has by support the two strands of the loop 403 formed between the two elastic elements 710 and 720, the two branches 241 and 242 of said fork 240 being then disposed respectively at the front and at the rear of said elastic elements 710 and 720.
• the rotational movement of the arm 200 according to the arrow F2 drive in downward translation of the slider 600 in the slider 120.
• the cam path 610 provides a surface portion inclined to the finger 530 so as to impart translational movement forward to the movable jaw 520 which approaches the fixed jaw 510 until reaching the position illustrated in the drawing of Figure 4 where the clamp P is closed and where the first end 402 of the link 401 supported by the blade 230 is positioned at a height and facing the front end of the movable jaw 520 .
• the clamp P By initiating a new closure, the clamp P then forms the loop 403 illustrated by the drawing of FIG. 9, the second end 404 of which must be released from the remainder of the link 401 coming from the reel 410.
• This new closing movement acts again on the slide 600 which will release and retract the movable jaw 520 to allow the cutting of the link 401 by the blade 230 as shown in the drawing of Figure 10.
• the rotary drive unit 700 can then be actuated by a movement away from the clamp P relative to the elements to be connected El and E2. Indeed, because of a helical connection implemented between a rod 740 connected to the elastic elements 710 and 720 and the body 100, this movement in spacing translation is converted into rotation of the rod 740 according to the arrow F5. To do this, said rod 740 is preformed with a helical groove with which cooperates balls (not shown) integral with the body 100. This rotational movement interweaves the ends 402 and 404 of the loop 403 so as to close the loop.
• the elastic elements release by simple continuation of traction by the user, the ends twisted and a new cycle can start.
• the flanges or cheeks 411 and 412 of the reel 410 are preformed externally of a projecting shaft 413 and 414 to cooperate with an open bearing 130 formed in the part back of the body 100 of the first arm.
• This rear part is divided into two branches between which is positioned the reel 410 and each preformed an identical receiving slot into which said shaft slides.
• the two flanges 411 and 412 have complementary internal projections so as to form a central hub 415 accommodating the flexible fastening link.
• Said external projection starts with a hemispherical shape extended by said shaft 413 and 414, convex hemispherical shape cooperating with a preformed concave equivalent shape at the open bearing 130 preformed in the branches and guiding the reel on the body 100 of the clamp P.
• FIG. 16 and 17 illustrate an embodiment of a fastener link coil 430.
• this coil 430 has a width of between twenty-seven and thirty millimeters with a central orifice having a diameter of between twenty-seven and thirty millimeters.
• the coil 430 provides a fastening link of about one hundred meters.

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