JP2011010572A - Cultivation tool for pet grass, and pet grass cultivation set with the same - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cultivation tool for pet grass with which the growth density of pet grass becomes homogeneous, the growth season thereof is unified and the amount of the seeds of the pet grass is visually recognized, and which is suitable for easily cultivating the pet grass while making a consumer physically feel proper pleasure in cultivating plants on the soil: and to provide a pet grass cultivation set with the tool.SOLUTION: The cultivation tool for pet grass includes the following structure: a plurality of pet grass seeds (3) are put on the upper surface of dried culture medium (2) prepared by compressing vegetable fiber-containing culture soil into a solid state; and in such a condition, the seeds (3) and the culture medium (2) are enclosed together in a mesh material (4) whose meshes are smaller than the seeds (3), through which germinated sprouts can be passed, and which is made of moisture-absorbing fiber.

Description

  The present invention relates to a pet grass cultivation tool and a pet grass cultivation set for cultivating pet grass eaten by pets such as cats, dogs, and rabbits.

Cats and other pets have the habit of eating grass to exhale or excrete the swallowed hair when grooming. This is an instinct for cats and dogs to drain hair along with the grass they eat, as hair can accumulate in the stomach and esophagus.
By the way, in recent housing circumstances, pets often have to be raised indoors, making it difficult for pets to eat fresh grass. For this reason, it is suitable if pet grass can be easily cultivated in a room where pets are raised.
Therefore, conventionally, a combination of pet grass seeds and soil for indoor cultivation has been sold. For example, there is one disclosed in Patent Document 1. In Patent Document 1, a water retention material as a culture medium is composed of a material other than soil such as wood chips, and is housed in a mesh-like bag together with grass seeds. In the “pet grass breeding tool” of Patent Document 1, since seeds and a water retention material are combined in advance, pet grass can be cultivated without giving time and effort only by supplying water.

JP 2004-141078 A

  However, in the “pet grass breeding tool” of Patent Document 1, since the seeds are mixed with the wood waste in the bag, the seed distribution in the wood waste is biased due to vibration in the product distribution process of the growth tool. Is likely to occur. For this reason, the place where the germinated pet grass gathers and the place where it is sparse occurs, and there is a disadvantage that the density does not become uniform. Furthermore, because the seeds are mixed with the wood chips, the depth of the various child's wood chips is different, so the germination time varies from seed to seed and the pet grass grows differently. It was. Thus, if there are variations in growth density and time, not only does it look bad, but it also adversely affects the growth of pet grass. In addition, it seems that it seems reasonable that the seeds are premixed with the wood chips, but at first glance it seems that the seeds are not visible, so it is possible to grasp how much seeds are contained. There was also a drawback that it was impossible to experience the joy of cultivating plants by embedding seeds in the soil.

  The present invention has been made in view of such problems, can make the growth density of pet grass uniform, can also unify the growth time, and can reduce the amount of seeds of pet grass. A pet grass cultivation tool suitable for easily cultivating pet grass while experiencing the original enjoyment of cultivating a plant with soil, and a pet grass cultivation set equipped with the same are provided. For the purpose.

In order to achieve the object, the present invention takes the following technical means.
That is, the pet grass cultivation tool of the present invention is a state in which a plurality of pet grass seeds are placed on the upper surface of a dried medium obtained by compression-molding culture soil containing plant fibers. The seeds and the medium are encapsulated by a mesh material made of fibers that are smaller than the seeds and through which germinated buds can pass and that are hygroscopic.
Further, when the medium is supplied with water, the medium expands in the vertical direction, and is compressed into a plate shape so that the expansion coefficient in the vertical direction is larger than the expansion coefficient in the lateral direction of the medium. It is preferable that the mesh material covers the medium from the top to the bottom so as to allow the medium to expand.

Furthermore, a recess surrounding the seed may be provided on the upper surface of the medium.
In addition, the above-mentioned pet grass cultivation tool is housed in this box in a state covered with a waterproof sheet laid on the inner surface of the box that can form an opening in the upper direction. It can be set as the pet grass cultivation set which can be utilized as a cultivation container for cultivation with a simple box.
The waterproof sheet has a peripheral portion that can be drawn outward from the opening of the box, and a holding portion that holds the extracted peripheral portion of the waterproof sheet around the opening of the box However, it may be provided around the opening of the box.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to prevent variations in the growth density and growth time of pet grass, and the amount of seeds of pet grass can be grasped visually. In addition, pet grass can be easily cultivated while experiencing the original enjoyment of cultivating plants with soil.

It is a partially broken perspective view of the pet grass cultivation set provided with the pet grass cultivation tool concerning the present invention. It is a schematic diagram which shows the AA line cross section of FIG. It is a figure equivalent to FIG. 2 which shows the state which the culture medium expanded by adding water. It is a figure equivalent to FIG. 2 which shows the state which the seed germinated. It is a perspective view of the pet grass cultivation set concerning the present invention which shows the state where pet grass grew. It is a perspective view of the grass cultivation set for pets concerning the present invention before a box is opened. It is a perspective view of the grass cultivation set for pets concerning the present invention after a box was opened. It is a figure equivalent to FIG. 2 which shows another embodiment of the grass cultivation set for pets concerning this invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of a pet grass cultivation tool and a pet grass cultivation set according to the present invention will be described based on the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a partially broken perspective view of a pet grass cultivation set 1 ′ equipped with a pet grass cultivation tool 1. As shown in FIG. 1, a pet grass cultivation tool 1 contains a medium 2 for cultivating pet grass, seeds 3 for pet grass provided on the upper surface of the medium 2, a medium 2 and seeds 3. These are mainly composed of the mesh material 4 to be used, but in the present embodiment, they are accommodated in a box 7 to be described later and constitute a grass cultivation set 1 ′ for pets.

First, the detail of the grass cultivation tool 1 for pets is demonstrated.
As shown in FIG.1 and FIG.2, the culture medium 2 of the pet grass cultivation tool 1 is compression-molded culture soil made from plant fibers such as coconut shell fibers and peat moss, and is in a dry solid state. ing.
In this embodiment, the culture medium 2 is obtained by cutting a plate-shaped culture soil plate that has been compressed and dried into a solid shape so that the thickness of the culture soil is about one-fifth, and is cut into a rectangular shape as appropriate. One of the plate-like divided pieces is used. Therefore, when the medium 2 is given water, it expands about 5 times in the thickness direction (vertical direction), but hardly expands in the lateral direction, and the expansion coefficient in the vertical direction is the lateral direction. It is larger than the expansion rate.

The medium 2 may be a simple plate, but as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the peripheral wall 5 is integrally formed along the peripheral edge of the upper surface to surround the pet grass seed 3. A recess 6 is formed.
The seed 3 for the pet grass is preferably buckwheat rich in minerals, protein, dietary fiber and the like, but is not limited thereto, and may be enokirogusa, wheat, barley or the like. The number of seeds 3 is set to an appropriate amount so that pet grass grows well in relation to the volume of the medium 2.

The mesh material 4 is formed in a rectangular sheet shape having a large number of meshes 4a made of hygroscopic fibers such as rayon and cotton. The size of the mesh 4a of the mesh material 4 is larger than that of the pet grass seed 3 and allows germinated buds to pass therethrough.
Thus, the pet grass cultivation tool 1 according to the present invention is encapsulated by the mesh material 4 in a state where a plurality of pet grass seeds 3 are placed on the upper surface of the culture medium 2. In this encapsulation, in a conventional mixture of wood chips or other medium and seeds, these appropriate amount distributions must be light and combined, but the medium 2 is solid, so one medium It is only necessary to combine an appropriate amount of seeds, and its production is easy.

Note that the mesh material 4 can be used by closing a bag formed in advance. However, in this embodiment, even if the medium 2 expands with water, the mesh material 4 is the medium 2. In order to allow the expansion of the culture medium 2 following the expansion, the medium 2 is wrapped so as to cover from the upper side to the lower side and is folded back to the lower surface side of the culture medium 2 and closed on the lower surface side of the culture medium 2. Not.
The pet grass cultivation tool 1 as described above can be easily cultivated by itself, so that it can be sold as a product in a vacuum pack or the like. A container such as a bowl is required.

Therefore, in the present embodiment, a packaging box is used, and a pet grass cultivation set 1 ′ having a pet grass cultivation tool 1 on a box 7 that can be used as a cultivation container as it is is used.
The box 7 is a flat rectangular parallelepiped made of paper that can be opened upward, and the internal height thereof is a height that can accommodate the expanded culture medium 2. That is, the box 7 has an internal height that is about five times the thickness of the culture medium 2.
As shown in FIG. 6 and FIG. 7, the upper surface 8 of the box body 7 is divided into a rectangular fold line 9, a frame-shaped peripheral frame portion 10 defined outside the fold line 9, and a fold line 9. On the inner side, four flap-shaped opening / closing lids (a pair of first opening / closing lids 11 and a pair of second opening / closing lids 12) that can swing via a folding line 9 and a cut-out lid 13 are formed. In addition, round holes 20 are provided at the four corners of the fold line 9 so that they can be extracted.

  That is, a pair of perforated first lines 11a are formed in a circular arc shape on the upper surface of the box 7 so that the pair of first opening / closing lids 11 can be cut and raised. It is provided to connect the two. Further, the pair of perforated second cut lines 12a are connected to the pair of second opening / closing lids so as to communicate the pair of first lines 11a with each other in a form in which a plurality of arcs are continuous. 12 is provided so that it can be cut and raised, and the cutout lid 13 is configured in a range surrounded by the pair of second cut lines 12a and the pair of first lines 11a.

And the waterproof sheet 15 is laid in the box 7 along the inner surface. The waterproof sheet 15 may be a resin sheet such as nylon or polypropylene, but in the present embodiment, a material made of a resin material such as polyethylene that does not generate harmful gas even when burned is used.
Thus, the grass cultivation tool 1 for pets is stored inside the box 7 in a state of being covered from the lower side to the upper side by the waterproof sheet 15 laid along the inner surface of the box 7 and is used for pets. It is configured as a grass cultivation set 1 ′.

Instead of laying the waterproof sheet 15 in the box 7, the box 7 itself is made of a wax or resin coating, or a paper material vapor-deposited with aluminum, or the box 7 itself is made of a resin such as styrene. Although it is good also as a waterproof cultivation container by manufacturing with material, in this embodiment, by using paper box 7 and waterproof sheet 15, cost reduction and waterproof sheet 15 mentioned below are used. It has the advantage by using.
Hereinafter, the usage method of the pet grass cultivation tool 1 and the pet grass cultivation set 1 ′ according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

First, the cutting lid 13 provided on the upper surface of the box 7 is cut out along the first lines 11a and 11a and the second lines 12a and 12a. At this time, since there is sufficient space above the culture medium 2 in a dry state (not yet expanded) in the box 7, the cut lid 13 is simply cut into the cut lines 13. It can be easily cut out along 11a and 12a.
Next, the pair of first opening / closing lids 11 and the pair of second opening / closing lids 12 are each cut through the fold line 9. At the time of this cutting and raising operation, stop holes 14 are provided at both ends of each first line 11a. Therefore, the cutting and raising operation stops with the cut hole 14 being cut, The frame part 10 is not broken.

By opening and closing each open / close lid 11, 12, an opening 8 ′ is formed in an expanded shape on the upper surface 8 of the box body 7, and the waterproof sheet 15 covering the pet grass cultivation tool 1 from the opening 8 ′ is formed. The peripheral portion can be pulled out of the box 7.
In addition, until the box 7 is opened as described above, the waterproof sheet 15 functions to prevent moisture and straw from entering the pet grass growing tool 1.
Thus, as shown in FIG. 1, the upper surface of the culture medium 2 on which the plurality of seeds 3 of the pet grass growing tool 1 are placed appears.

In order to germinate the pet grass seeds 3, an appropriate amount of water or lukewarm water is poured evenly from above the pet grass cultivation tool 1, that is, into the box 7. At this time, since the seed 3 is encapsulated by the mesh material 4 and is surrounded by the recess, the seed 3 does not scatter or flow outward from the upper surface of the culture medium 2 when pouring water or the like.
As a measure of the amount of water or lukewarm water poured, for example, about 200 mL is desirable for 30 cm ^{3 of} compressed and dried medium (10 cm long, 6 cm wide, 0.5 cm thick). In addition, as a temperature of lukewarm water, the grade which does not exceed 40 degreeC is desirable. Since the water or lukewarm water is prevented from leaking out of the box 7 by the waterproof sheet 15, the box 7 can be used as a cultivation container, not a container as a simple packaging material.

The compressed and dried culture medium 2 expands to about 5 times as much as when dried (during compression) before pouring water or the like upward when water or lukewarm water is added for about 1 to 2 minutes. At this time, as shown in FIG. 2, the mesh material 4 is only folded and folded back on the lower surface side of the culture medium 2, so that it follows the expansion of the culture medium 2 and inhibits the expansion as shown in FIG. The expansion action is allowed so that nothing happens.
In a state where the culture medium 2 is expanded, the surface of the culture medium 2 is flattened by lightly pushing into the culture medium 2 while uniforming the various children 3 from above the mesh material 4. At this time, since the seed 3 is placed on the upper surface of the culture medium 2, it can be directly observed through the mesh material 4. Moreover, the growth density and the growth time of the pet grass after germination can be made uniform by pushing lightly into the culture medium 2 while making the various seeds 3 uniform.

Until the seed 3 germinates, the surface of the pet grass growing tool 1 is lightly covered with the waterproof sheet 15 to prevent drying of the seed 3 and the medium 2 and to block strong light. It is possible to promote germination such as maintaining the greenhouse state.
After about 2 to 4 days have passed since pouring water or the like, the seed 3 germinates, so the waterproof sheet 15 is opened and the peripheral part of the waterproof sheet 15 drawn out from the opening 8 'of the box 7 is The clips can be clipped by being sandwiched between the cuts of the respective stop holes 14 and can be held in an upwardly expanded state. Accordingly, each stop hole 14 constitutes a holding portion that holds the waterproof sheet 15. In this way, the waterproof sheet 15 is held in each of the retaining holes 14 constituting the holding unit, so that the waterproof sheet 15 does not cover the upper surface of the pet grass growing tool 1 again. In addition, when the pet grass grows as shown in FIG. 5, the waterproof sheet 15 is coupled with each of the expanded open / close lids 11 and 12 so as to surround and wrap the pet grass. It can be made to look good in terms of design.

The germinated seed 3 can be firmly rooted since the medium 2 is a culture soil containing plant fibers. Further, since the mesh 4a has a mesh 4a smaller than the seed 3 and germinated buds can pass therethrough, there is no hindrance to the growth of the buds. In addition, since the mesh material 4 is formed of water-absorbing fibers, the water retained by the culture medium 2 is also supplied to the easily dried surface that is not in contact with the culture medium 2 of the seed 3, and germinated and cultured. It is possible to prevent the seed 3 from being dried until the roots 2 are rooted.
The pet grass cultivation set 1 ′ after germination is placed in a sunny place, and water is appropriately given to the extent that the surface of the culture medium 2 does not dry.

  The seed 3 grows to about 10 cm after about 7 to 10 days from germination, so that the pet can freely eat the pet grass. Here, even if the pet pulls the pet grass, the medium 2 that has expanded by absorbing water has an appropriate weight, so that the box 7 hardly falls down. Even if the box 7 falls down, the culture medium 2 is encapsulated with the mesh material 4, so that the plant fiber culture medium 2 does not spill out of the box 7 and contaminate the room. . Further, even if the box 7 is turned over, the periphery of the upper surface 8 of the culture medium 2 comes into contact with the inner surface of the peripheral frame portion 10 of the box 7, and the pet grass cultivation tool 1 including the culture medium 2 and the box 7 You won't jump out.

When the pet has finished eating the pet grass, the pet grass cultivation set 1 ′ including the pet grass cultivation tool 1 can be disposed of as garbage that burns in a lump. That is, the constituent elements of the pet grass cultivation set 1 'are all combustibles, and even if the waterproof sheet 15 is incinerated, no harmful substances such as dioxins are generated, so that it is extremely environmentally friendly. Yes.
The pet grass cultivation tool and the pet grass cultivation set according to the present invention are not limited to the above embodiment.

For example, as shown in FIG. 8, you may provide the several recessed part 16 in the upper surface of the culture medium 2 (it attaches | subjects the same code | symbol about the same part as the said Example, and abbreviate | omits description).
Further, the mesh material may be a non-mesh, non-woven fabric or cloth made of hygroscopic fibers with punching holes larger than the seed 3 and allowing germinated buds to pass through.
In addition, the shape and structure of the box, the shape of each open / close lid and the cut-out lid, and the presence / absence thereof can be changed as appropriate. It can also be made variable, and there can be only one pair of opening / closing lids or no cutting lid. In addition, the packaging container which combined the box 7 and the waterproof sheet 15 used for the grass cultivation set 1 ′ for pets according to the present invention is a packaging container for storing a conventional one such as a mixture of seeds and a medium. In addition, it can be used as a plant simple cultivation container comprising the box 7 and the waterproof sheet 15.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Pet grass cultivation tool 1 'Pet grass cultivation set 2 Medium 3 Seed 4 Mesh material 6 Concave part 7 Box 8' Opening part 14 Holding part (stop hole)
15 Waterproof sheet

Claims (5)

  In a state where a plurality of pet grass seeds (3) are placed on the upper surface of a dried medium (2) obtained by compression-molding culture soil containing plant fibers, these seeds (3) and The medium (2) is encapsulated by a mesh material (4) formed of fibers that are smaller than the seed (3) and allow germinated buds to pass therethrough and are hygroscopic. Pet grass growing tool.   When the culture medium (2) is given water, the culture medium (2) expands in the vertical direction, and the expansion coefficient in the vertical direction is larger than the expansion coefficient in the lateral direction of the culture medium (2). It is compressed and formed into a plate shape, and the mesh material (4) covers from above the medium (2) downward so as to allow expansion of the medium (2). The grass cultivation tool for pets according to claim 1.   The grass cultivation tool for pets according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a recess (6) surrounding the seed (3) is provided on an upper surface of the medium (2).   The grass cultivation tool for pets according to any one of claims 1 to 3 is provided with a waterproof sheet (15) laid on the inner surface of a box (7) capable of forming an opening (8 ') above. A grass cultivation set for pets which is stored in the box (7) in a covered state.   The waterproof sheet (15) has a peripheral portion that can be drawn outward from the opening (8 ') of the box (7), and the peripheral portion of the waterproof sheet (15) thus drawn out is The holding portion (14) for holding around the opening (8 ') of the box (7) is provided around the opening (8') of the box (7). 4. Pet grass cultivation set according to 4.

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