ES2273550A1 - Electrified protector for trees, has metallic grating connected to electrical current source either through rods connected in parallel from common supply cable, or by independent means of solar generator, Aeolian unit or batteries - Google Patents

Abstract

The protector has metallic grating with electric conductors arranged in pyramidal or rectangular basket form. The metallic grating is connected to electrical current source either through rods connected in parallel from a common supply cable, or by independent means of solar generator, Aeolian unit or batteries. The metallic grating also has internal frame surrounding trunk of a tree or plant, vertical rods extending from internal frame, support cables fixed to vertical rods, legs fixed to ground, and insulating legs used as stakes for ground isolation of metallic grating.

Description

Electrified individual tree protector and other plants.

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a protector which has been specially designed for individual protection of trees and other plants against the possible action on same animals both wild and domestic, that could use them as food, especially in the initial phase of increase.

The object of the invention is to establish a barrier that prevents animals from accessing trees, thus guaranteeing the normal development of the latter without that this implies any limitation as regards the mobility of animals on the farm or land in question.

The invention thus falls within the sector densification, regeneration and reforestation technician of all class of agricultural, forestry and livestock land, and of Any other type of soil.

Background of the invention

The great importance it has in the current densification, regeneration and reforestation of everything type of soil, for hydrological and forestry restoration, for fight against soil erosion and desertification, to enrich and make more productive soils and pastures, as well as to make these benefits compatible with an agricultural and livestock farm sustainable and profitable, where quality products are produced without that cause damage to the natural environment.

On the other hand in these soils inhabit beings alive, specifically both wild and domestic animals, which consume and rub the trees and plants since birth, so that reforestation is difficult because trees and plants are subject to a very high risk during their initial period of development, until they acquire a height determined, with which these animals can no longer cause damage to take into account, both for using such trees and plants as food, as for using them as a pier.

This problem can be solved by fencing of farms to reforest, but nevertheless this solution prevents free movement, stay and grazing of animals both Domestic as wild.

To avoid this last problem they are known individual tree protection systems, consisting of establish a mechanical barrier that surrounds each of them, such as for example a rigid tube conveniently anchored to the ground, posts that support a lattice lattice body, etc., solutions which are barely effective because animals medium and large are capable of destroying these barriers and accessing to the trees or plants in question.

Description of the invention

The individual protector that the invention proposes solves the problem fully satisfactorily previously exposed, for what materializes in a metal grid, nature electro-conductive, formally and dimensionally suitable to surround each tree or plant in question, or a group of them, and fixed to the ground by supports electro insulators.

Said grid electro-conductor can be powered on parallel with another indeterminate series of individual protectors or You can have your own power supply such as a small solar panel, a wind generator, batteries, etc.

Preferably the protector will materialize in a basket-shaped structure, specifically with a pyramidal trunk configuration, quadrangular and inverted, based on iron rods that make up a rectangular frame, corresponding to the lower base of said pyramid, frame of four other rods emerge ascendingly and divergently, in correspondence with the lateral edges of the pyramid trunk, and among which threads are set annular path flexo-conductors, conveniently distanced to prevent access between them the total or partial access of any animal.

One of these side rods has a superior prolongation, obviously also of nature electro-conductive, with which height is gained enough for the cable that supplies voltage or impulses electrical to the different protectors, do not constitute an obstacle some to the passage of animals under it.

The protector bases its functionality not only on the the fact that the low voltage electrical discharge received by the animals when they try to access the tree or plant in question It makes them give up in their attempt, but also in memory indelible for these animals from an experience of downloading the cited type, so that in an area where a stable animal population, that is, in which animals do not access new, after a reasonable period of time the protectors can be disconnected from the power supply, maintaining its functionality by visual memory that animals It has the same.

According to the structuring described, the type of protector that is recommended guarantees a normal development of the tree or plant protected by it, however allowing the maintenance of animals with free mobility in the areas protected, which ensures regeneration, densification and reforestation of these areas, simultaneously with the stay and grazing of the animals indicated.

The assured growth of trees or plants involve additional benefits such as fixing the carbon to the ground by new plants or trees protected, the fight against climate change, the loss of Soil fertility and soil as a whole, generating new food resources for the same animals, such as case of acorns, cork, branch leaves from subsequent pruning in Quercus species, etc as well as the generation of firewood and combustible material with a endless applications

Description of the drawings

To complement the description that is being performing and in order to help a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention, according to an example of practical realization of it, is accompanied as an integral part of said description, a single sheet of plans in which with illustrative and non-limiting nature and in its only figure, it has represented, schematically and in perspective, a protector electrified individual for trees and other plants made of according to the object of the present invention.

Preferred Embodiment of the Invention

In view of the figures outlined you can be observed as the protector that is recommended will be preferably constituted by a metal structure in the involving four rods (1) of corrugated iron, for example 10 millimeters in diameter and 50 centimeters in length, which welded at their ends form a rectangular frame whose vertices are fixed, also by welding, other four rods corrugated iron (2), 6 millimeters in diameter and 100 centimeters in length, divergent ascending with an angle of 45 °.

These rising and oblique rods (2) they constitute the means of support for a plurality of cables or wires (3), also electro-conductive, which by example can materialize in bare copper wires, conveniently fixed to the rods (2) and also conveniently distanced from each other to prevent access to animals, such as with a distance of 25 centimeters.

One of these rising and divergent rods (2 ') extends ascendingly and vertically, well in shape single piece or by using another similar rod, in a section (4) also of 6 millimeters in diameter and 100 centimeters in length, so that through the limb upper and free of said rod (4) the metal structure described is connected to a power supply cable (5), to through which the device is supplied, electrical voltage or electrical impulses, so that in case the animal contact the protector generates a discharge through your body which forces them to separate from said protector, without bodily harm for them, obviously said rod (4) can be replaced by an electric conductor cable.

Obviously the terminal and upper rod (4) Its purpose is to conveniently distance the cable from feeding (5) with respect to the ground, in a dimension of the order of 2 meters, so that under this cable can pass freely all kinds of animals.

This structure is intended to surround the trunk of the tree or plant in question, and should remain conveniently fixed to the floor, while insulated electrically thereof, for which purpose the lower frame (1) counts  with at least one pair of lower legs (6), also metallic, which are inserted or fixed to other legs of insulating material (7), to stakes mode for your nail on the ground, which preferably they will be plastic, although they can be of any other electro-insulating material.

However and as previously stated, the individual protector can be autonomous, so that instead of be connected to said parallel power cable (5), incorporates its own electric generator, such as a small solar panel or a wind generator, or by batteries, assisted by the complementary and classic means of storage and distribution of current or impulses electric

Claims (4)

1. Electrified individual protector for trees and other plants, characterized by being constituted by a metallic grid, of a conductive material of the electric current, formally and dimensionally suitable to surround the tree or plant to protect, connected to a source of electrical current or impulses electrical, and provided with feet of an electro-insulating nature for fixing to the ground, said metal grid defining open spaces dimensionally adequate to prevent the animals from accessing the tree or plant to be protected. 2. Electrified individual protector for trees and other plants, according to claim 1, characterized in that said metal grid is embodied in a lower frame or ring (1), from which upper and divergent rods (2-2 ') emerge, between which bare or similar electrical cables (3) of annular path are established, counting the frame or lower ring (1) with also metal legs (6) that are inserted in other legs as stakes (7) of electro-insulating material for stabbing to the ground. 3. Electrified individual protector for trees and other plants, according to previous claims, characterized in that one of the ascending and divergent rods (2 ') is extended by its upper and free end in another metal rod or cable (4), which acts as a connector from the grid structure to the cable (5) supplying in parallel the electric current or electrical impulses to different protectors, rod or cable (4) whose length is suitable so that said supply wire (5) in turn reaches an appropriate height to allow the passage under the same of the animals. 4. Electrified individual protector for trees and other plants, according to claims 1 and 2, characterized in that it incorporates its own means of generating electric current or electrical impulses, of a solar, wind, battery or other character.