FR2912032A1 - Stem or branch tendril fixing device, has pale turning on plane reducing diameter of attachment around branch tendril and stake wire for closing wire by cascade and binding different parts - Google Patents

Abstract

The device has a portable warehouse for receiving a coil of a line wire and connected to a banding device by a hollow band for passing the line wire. The banding device has an automatic cutting unit cutting the line wire into parts for forming an attachment (7) and sliding the attachment in a supply channel (6). A pale (9) turns on a plane reducing the diameter of the attachment provided around the branch tendril and a stake wire for closing the wire by a reinforcement by cascade and binding the different parts at a push exerted from the device on a stem of the plant and the stake wire.

Description

The present invention relates to a method of parallel attachment or

  perpendicular of the stems of the vine or a plant to a stretched wire and the device for the implementation of said method. The fixing of the newly cut vine stems consists of the establishment of small links in very thin wire wrapped in paper, jute, plastic etc. that we wiggle to secure the rod to the stretched wire acting as guardian. Currently, the various links commonly used consist of son cut in advance and correspond to the length necessary for the encirclement of the rod and tutor wire twisted manually so very irregularly or placed with a mechanical and manual clamp or the twisting is provided by the clamp but its implementation is archaic and its handling is slow, moreover the thread to make links from a box fixed along the leg without protection thus facilitates the entanglement of the link. The cut of the link is provided by the clamp. In recent years, binder or attachment (in some wine regions are linked or attached to the vine tutor wire) automatic electrically operated with batteries fixed in the back. They are heavy and cumbersome in addition to the coil of wire link is stored inside the machine. - 2

  Link wire placement systems currently in use do not fully meet all of these criteria. Indeed, the wire link is very thin and must have certain characteristics, in particular to be easy to handle and not to hurt the plant and for these reasons, around plastic or paper and more often the stem of the plant is too tight and this causes a strangling of the stem. It must be strong enough not to break the laying but after a few months and to make the wire must be said annealing for favored destruction in the vineyard by rusting the wire which requires a very protected storage not to damage the wire before use. All these systems leave the wire exposed to bad weather during the installation which disrupts their performance enormously. The present invention aims to overcome these various disadvantages by providing a two-part process. Part 1, provides transport, storage of the tutor wire in the form of a coil and the unwinding of the wire link and part 2, the device transforming the link wire into pieces said attachment to automatically attach the branch to the tutor wire. The method according to the invention consists in putting in the form of a large capacity coil a wire bonded said wire link to store it in a tank that we will be able to wear and maintain along its body and thus store - 3 -

  large quantities of wire while protecting it from the weather and connecting it by a hollow cord, in order to pass the wire link in its environment, the device that will turn the thread link into individual attachment to attach the branch to the tutor wire. The bonded wire is annealed steel to facilitate rust when in place, with a diameter corresponding to the vigor of the branch to work, coated with a plastic film or any other material but must have a glide, rigidity with some flexibility to navigate the channels of the device to bring the link wire around the branch.

  The device according to the invention consists of a manual molded plastic pliers of a weight that its prolonged use is no problem and is made of different parts that will work in cascade to ensure all movements to finalize a fixation of a branch on a tutor wire. The first part of our process acts as a tank and allows both unwinding the wire coil c.0 body of the winemaker, connected by will let pass the wire link our device which is automatic and manual. The link thread slides in the cavity channel and will marry, a large part of the diameter of the branch then will be caught in a propeller to be wiggled horizontally. to store and hold along a flexible tube that in the body of the attachment - 4

  The link thread became attached because it was automatically cut by piece following the traille of the moving part of our process so more or less important in order to respect the size of the branch. The advantages and characteristics of our method according to the invention will emerge more clearly from the description which follows and which refers to the appended drawings, which represent a non-limiting embodiment of the invention. In the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic view of our tank suspended for example from the belt according to the invention, used for storing the bobbin thread bobbin and uncoiling it and for fixing a cord connecting the storage device to the a.ttacheuse. - Figure 2 shows a schematic sectional view of our attachment. - Figure 4 shows the twisting system of the fastener to fix the shoot on the stake wire. - Figure 3 shows in section the method for sectioning the wire link to make individual fasteners and to convey the wire link in the channel to bring. - Figure 5 shows in section the hollow upper antennas, not closed, to let pass the fasteners.

  FIG. 6 represents the open antennas with the manipulation arms. Referring to FIG. 1, it can be seen that part of our method according to the invention comprises a hollow body (1) enclosing a spool of binding thread for storing, transporting and facilitating its unwinding and having openings ( 2) on the upper part to attach to the body using a belt for example and a hole (3) passing the wire link in a flexible tube connected storage to the device to avoid the wire to be caught in branches or be soiled or wet. It is planned to be able to maintain pre-cut links in the case where mechanical fastening is impossible (19). This first part (1) is of capacity to what a man can normally support because it can even imagine to fix it in the back. The second part of our process which is the device of belting of the shoot and its tutor wire also called the attachment according to figure 2. It is composed of several parts: The body (4) is preferentially cylindrical 25 e-: serves to his manipulation. It has in its base part an opening to let in the wire link (5) and the beginning of the channel to bring wire link (6). In the body, slide the upper part of our attachment (7) which will travel the link wire 30 in the lead channel (6) surmounted, at its upper end, by two hollow retractable antennas - 5 -

  which once joined are used to pass the thread over the branch and its guard wire positioned in part A (Figure 5). The length of the portion (7) corresponds approximately to the desired length of the fastener. This sliding part (7) is of different size in its manufacture but also its sliding in the body can be reduced by riders for example applied to the part (7).

  Figure 4 shows an elevational view of our horizontal twisting system of the fastener made of two blades (9) terminated by opposing and spaced notches to penetrate the ends of the fastener between the blades.

  Figure 3 shows our system of severing the metal link wire by punching with a tilting blade (20) - (- 9 -) - when the moving part of the attachment hits the top of the body (17) ) while the other end (18) releases the clip that has just been cut. Referring now to the various figures, it can be seen that in use, the tank which is held in suspension along the body of the winemaker is connected to the attachment by a bead (11) flexible easily passing the wire link. The attachment held in one hand by its fixed part (4) is approached from the shoot and the stake thread held by the other hand so that the branch and the guard wire is placed in the part (A) between the antennas ( 8) and the top of the tortillator. - 7

  Then with reference to the various figures, by exerting a pressure on the levers (12) (not shown in FIG: 2) connected to the antennas (8) which will rock and join forming a bridge to encircle and encloses the branch and his tutor son. Referring to Figure 2, it can be seen that at this time it is sufficient to pressure the part 7 by pushing the part (4) upwards. The part (7) enters the body of the part (4). Then with reference to Figures 2 and 3 it can be seen that our horizontal twisting system terminated by an endless screw (10) will come into contact with the upper part of the body (4) which has the ability to rotate it (13). on himself. (The horizontal twisting of our fastener is much safer than an elliptical twisting which always ends up being discarded) That is to say that the two ends of the fastener will be turned on themselves and this, on the same latitude in order to reduce the diameter of the fastener which eventually corresponds to the diameter of the shoot and its support wire and that each turn gives a pressure to the son of the fastener which are surrounded by extra thickness thanks to the tension on the thread of the fastener by the jamming of this thread between the two blades (21) of the tortillonneur spread by one millimeter. With reference to FIG. 3, it can be seen that at the end of the complete movement the lower part (7) provided with our disconnector, with a rocker blade (9), will come into being.

  hit the upper body (4) (17) and with this pressure the wire link is cut to give an individual part called tie leaving a piece of wire link to initiate the recovery of the next clip in part C to using the bottom c.0 arm (18) of the disconnector (20) which will be left in pressure on the wire link through the adoption of an oval axis (23). Referring now to Figures 2-3-5-6, it can be seen that by analyzing the movement of the different parts constituting our attachment, the fastener having been presented in the channel to bring in the area B. A at this moment, it is compressed down the zone B by the base (18) of the disconnector (20) and free in its upper part. Under the effect of the movement of the portion (7) to the portion (4), one end of the fastener will pass through the tortillonneur in its portion (14), will enter the body of the antennas (8 (FIG: 5) , then again in the tortillator (15) which will enter at this moment in action and the antennas (8) pass the fastener in the part (18) under the effect of the tension. The tying device resets itself immediately by means of the pressure of a compression spring (16) which is located in the center of the body (4) and raises a new fastener from the delivery channel (D). channel to bring stock a-1 stain in the part (7) which is sent to the torturer then back a new fastener which is stored in the part (D) cuts a -

  third in the priming is in part (C) and which will be raised in part (D). A piece (24), with axis that can be shifted, allows the thread to rise but prevents it from descending by tilting under the effect of the passage of this thread. This piece, being longer in the direction of the mounted, flattened against the body of the channel to bring if a traction in opposite direction is made on the wire. It can be expected to form several strangulations of the same nature all along the channel to secure the navigation of the link wire. Referring to the various figures, the method and its device may be produced for use in a single use set or used separately. It goes without saying that the present invention can not be limited to the foregoing description and is likely to undergo a number of modifications without departing from the scope of the invention.

Claims (5)

  1- Device for parallel or perpendicular attachment of the rods or branches of or from a plant to a stretched wire putting an annealed iron wire (wire bond) (plastic, paper, hemp etc.) to end use by degradation characterized in that it includes a portable (belt, suspender etc. to receive a coil of wire link the grape vine enrobed break into (rust) store destined large capacity, connected by a hollow cord, in order to passing the bonded wire to a girdling device which includes means for automatically cutting the broken link wire (FIG. 3) to form fasteners, for sliding these ties into a feed channel (6) which runs to the inside and all along the device to pass the wire link over the shoot and its wire to twirl horizontally the two of the tie connected in reverse direction blades (Fig .: 4) which turning on a decrease the diameter of the attachment that surrounds the branch and its wire tutor to make a closure by overthickness of wire, and this without any electrical assistance and only by cascading and casing different parts under the pressure exerted by our tutor and ends by the same plane is (Fig. . 3) - 11- device on the stem of the plant and its guardian thread.   2 - fixing device according to claim 1, characterized in that the girdling device comprises a supply channel (6) of the two-part connecting wire: in a body (4), channel B and C, and in a part mobile (7), channel D, in order to cut it into pieces, thanks to the use of a metal blade to tilt (FIG   3) placed in abutment at the top of the movable part (7) which when the two parts are compressed cuts the wire link; then, it is conveyed in the supply channel (6) to hollow (8) and unclosed (18) antennas in order to facilitate the encirclement of the rod and its guard wire, at this moment the two ends of the fastener are taken in the twister (at the points (14) and (15)) moved by a worm (10) located in the top of the movable part (7) which in contact with a nut ( 13) executed in the upper part of the body (4) will turn the two blades constituting the superimposed superimposed and one millimeter distant, which aims to retain the wire constituting the fastener and make the horizontal kink more tense; at the end of the cycle a spring (16) allows the device to return to the starting position. 3 - Fastening device according to any one of the preceding claims characterized in that the girdling device comprises a double-acting wire disconnector, that is to say in one position the blade cuts the wire-12 - casing of the two parts (4 and 7) and loosening the blade tilts and keeps the wire link through the use of an oval axis (23) in the supply channel.   4 - Fastening device according to any one of the preceding claims characterized in that the belting device makes it possible to make fasteners of different lengths by adjusting the stroke length of the movable part (7).   5 - Fastening device according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the strapping device fits one or more movable parts (24) tilting which in one direction passes the wire link and the reverse wire is stuck in the channel of bringing to prevent its exit.