GB2417179A

GB2417179A - Plant cultivation enclosure for arid environments

Info

Publication number: GB2417179A
Application number: GB0416189A
Authority: GB
Inventors: Martin Lister
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2004-07-20
Filing date: 2004-07-20
Publication date: 2006-02-22
Anticipated expiration: 2024-07-20
Also published as: GB2417179B; GB0416189D0

Abstract

An enclosure for plant cultivation is constructed from clear material and includes a base 8, a pivot for the upper enclosure 12, aeration holes 18 and a water sprinkler 4. The sprinkler has a pivot 3 and a rotating distributor. A growing medium such as earth may be placed on the base. The growth of plants in this medium is encouraged by application of sprinkler water sourced from the mains supply or folding containers. Harvesting the crops may be accomplished by hand or using a dc motor powering a reaping device with a collecting box.

Description

Desert Crop Reaper Description

The Desert Crop Reaper can be used in single units as the sole means of food production for a family or as an extra means of food production on top of its possible use as a grouping which could be used for batch production of food in possible desert like conditions.

Fig 1 shows the Desert Crop Reaper as a single unit but with tracks added on co it, for possible batch production of food and with watering tubing added also for batch production of food' the tubing and tracks could be removed if the device is to be used for single unit production of food. Fig 1.1 is a flexible tube which attaches to the main water tube at Fig 1. 16 of the device and which attaches to the water sprinkler at Fig 1.4.

Fig 1.2 are holes of the water sprinkler. Fig 1.3 is a pivot of the water sprinkler. Fig 1.5 are wedges of material that are triangular cross section, in shape which when the water goes onto them produce a spin of the water sprinkler so that water gets all around the contents of the device so chat the crop gets fully watered. Fig 1.6 is of see-through plastic so that the sun can still get to the crop. Fig 1.7 is a track.

Fig 1.8 is the base container of the Desert Crop Reaper into which the earth goes and the roots of the crop grow.

Fig 1.3 is a track. Fig 1.10 is the track pivot, the tracks may thus pivot via the bolt that is the track pivot to allow for variances in level of the ground.

Fig 1.17 is where another similar unit could be attached in order for batch production of food to be feasible.

Fig 1.11 is an additional track which is fixed.

Fig 1.12 is a pivot about which the see through upper half may be rotated to allow for access to the crop.

Fig 1.13 is the main watering tube of the device gripper to the device. Fig 1.14 is a flexible tube that comes from the main watering tube of the device and which may then be connected to further main watering tubes of other units of similar type which would then be used for batch production of food. Fig 1.15 is a handle for rotating the see-through container in order for access to the crop to be feasible. Fig 1.18 are aeration holes of the device, so that the crop can breathe without all the water being lost, which would otherwise happen if the crop was not enclosed. To Fig 1. 4 the inlet to the sprinkler could be attached to a Concertina Foldaway Plastic Water Container Fig 3.

Fig 2 is a device for reaping the crop in particular a crop such as wheat. Fig 9.1 is a reaping vein of the device, this is rotated to gather in the crop. Fig 2.2 is a chain which connects to the dc motor of Fig 2.3 to rotate the reaping veins. The do motor connects to the front wheel of the device, which in its turn is connected to the other front wheel of the device via an axle. The dc motor is powered from a generator. The connection of motor to reaping veins and to the front wheel of the device are completely enclosed. When the motor rotates the front wheels of the device rotate so that the device goes forward and at the same time the reaping veins rotate so that the crop is collected in the container such as at Fig 9.5 of the container Fig 2.10. Fig 2.6 is the cable of the device from the do motor. Fig 2.7 is the rear axle of the device. Fig 2.S is a rear wheel inner section. Fig 2.9 is the outer section of the rear wheel, which is there so that the wheel is kept in place on the track. Fig 2.11 is a tongue of the device which reaps in the crop and directs the crop towards the rear of the device. Fig 2.12 is a pivot of the reaping veins, about which the reaping veins rotate.

Fig 3 is the Concertina Foldaway Plastic Water Container. When empty it simply folds down and presents low volume. Fig 3.1 is the opening to the container.

At points such as Fig 3.2 the container bends at these points.

Crops such as potatoes may also be reaped from the device, these could be hand picked.

Claims

Desert Crop Reaper Claims 1. Desert Crop Reaper is a container with an

upper half which is see- through and which has a water sprinkler in its top which rotates by water pressure and sprinkles water on the contents of the container which could be a crop such as Wheat which is fed from a main tube or from a Concertina Foldaway Plastic Water Container, the top of the container which is see-through is rotated round to reveal tracks by which the units can he connected together for batch production of food and along which a Crop Reaping machine can run along which is driven forward by a do motor and which has reaping veins which rotate and gather in the crop which are also rotated by the do motor towards the back of the device, the Desert Crop Reaper is substantially as described herein with

reference to the description and the accompanying

drawings.