JP6426826B2 - Cultivation apparatus and cultivation system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a plant cultivation apparatus and a cultivation system.

  In recent years, wall greening can be expected to have many other effects besides measures to alleviate the heat island phenomenon, which is a problem in urban areas, and energy saving measures. However, since wall greening needs to be greened three-dimensionally, the installation cost tends to be high. In addition, wall greening has not come into widespread use because it requires a great deal of effort and expense to maintain its aesthetic appearance even after completion.

  Many of the methods for greening wall surfaces are to grow plants using the earth surface. However, in the case of wall surface greening at a place where there is a restriction that the ground surface can not be secured, a planter is used as a cultivation container. In the case of wall surface greening using a planter, a pouring method of sprinkling tap water on a medium is often adopted.

  In addition, there is also a method called bottom surface water supply as a method of watering other than pouring (see Patent Document 1). The planter described in Patent Document 1 is installed outdoors, and is provided with a housing having an open upper end, and a bottom portion in the lower portion of the housing, and stores an amount of water that can not be emptied at the time of most evapotranspiration. A water storage tank, a culture medium provided in the upper part of the housing and causing rain water contained in excess to fall to the water storage tank, and a water supply member for supplying water in the water storage tank to the culture medium when drying the culture medium It is an irrigation type planter.

Unexamined-Japanese-Patent No. 5-23065

When performing the above-mentioned pouring, it is difficult to manage fertilizer, and it is time-consuming because it is necessary to fertilize each planter.
The bottom surface water supply described in Patent Document 1 is due to the capillary phenomenon of the water supply member, and there is a possibility that sufficient water supply may not be performed. In addition, uniform water supply is also difficult.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a cultivation apparatus and a cultivation system in which fertilizer management and water supply management are easy.

  The present invention relates to a culture solution storage container having an open upper surface and storing a culture solution therein, and a culture medium storage container connected so as to close the opened upper surface of the culture solution storage container and capable of arranging a culture medium; It is a cultivation apparatus provided with the watering line which waters the culture fluid stored by the culture fluid storage container to the culture medium storage container, and the sending pump which sends culture fluid to the watering line.

  The bottom surface of the culture medium container is an inclined surface which is inclined so as to become lower from one end to the other end along the longitudinal direction, and a drain hole is provided in the lower end region of the inclined surface. It is preferable that no drainage hole is provided except for the other end region of the inclined surface.

  The culture solution storage container preferably includes a pair of end wall portions facing each other, and the end wall portion is preferably provided with a through hole.

  You may provide the cover body which covers the upper surface of the said culture-medium accommodation container.

  Further, according to the present invention, a culture solution storage container having an open upper surface and storing a culture solution therein, and a culture medium storage container connected so as to close the opened upper surface of the culture solution storage container and capable of arranging a culture medium A culture apparatus comprising: a water sprinkling line for sprinkling a culture fluid stored in the culture fluid storage container into the culture medium storage container; and a liquid delivery pump for sending the culture fluid to the water sprinkling line, and the culture fluid storage container And a mounting system including a mounting unit mounted on an outer periphery of the culture medium container, and a trigger unit detachable from the mounting unit and disposed above the culture medium container. .

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the cultivation apparatus and cultivation system in which fertilizer management and water supply management are simple can be provided.

It is sectional drawing of the width direction of the cultivation apparatus 1 of 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is sectional drawing of the longitudinal direction of the cultivation apparatus 1. FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a cultivation system 3 including a cultivation apparatus 1 and a gantry 5. It is the figure which showed the form which has a shape corresponding to an installation position in the cultivation apparatus 1. FIG. It is a figure showing cultivation system 103 of a 2nd embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure which shows the cultivation apparatus 300 of 3rd Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the cultivation apparatus 400 of 4th Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the cultivation apparatus 500 of 5th Embodiment of this invention.

First Embodiment
Hereinafter, the cultivation system 3 including the cultivation device 1 and the cultivation device 1 and the gantry 5 of the first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Drawing 1 is a sectional view of the width direction of cultivation device 1 of an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the cultivation apparatus 1 in the longitudinal direction. FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a cultivation system 3 including one cultivation device 1 and a mount 5 attached to the cultivation device 1.

The culture apparatus 1 has a culture solution storage container 10 having an open upper surface and storing culture solution therein, and a culture medium storage container 40 connected so as to close the opened upper surface of the culture solution storage container 10 and capable of arranging the culture medium 46. And
In the embodiment, although a pair of the culture fluid storage container 10 and the culture medium container 40 (hereinafter referred to as the culture assembly 2) is connected with three 2A, 2B, and 2C as shown in FIG. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the number of cultivation assemblies 2 to be connected may be three or more or three or less.

  The culture apparatus 1 further includes a liquid feed pump 30 disposed inside the culture liquid storage container 10 of one of the culture assembly 2 and a plurality of culture medium containers 40 for the culture liquid delivered by the liquid feed pump 30. And a watering pipe 31 which is a watering line for watering the water.

(Medium container 40)
First, the culture medium container 40 will be described.
The culture medium container 40 is a bottomed box type container having a rectangular cross-sectional shape in the horizontal direction and an open top. A step 41 is provided on the outer periphery of the bottom 44 of the culture medium container 40.
The culture medium container 40 accommodates a culture medium 46 having water permeability inside.
The bottom portion 44 of the culture medium container 40 is an inclined surface which becomes lower from one end side to the other end side in the longitudinal direction as shown in FIG. 2 (hereinafter, one end side is front and the other end is rear) . And the drainage hole 43 is provided in the other end area | region which became low in the slope. Moreover, the drainage hole is not provided except the other end area | region among the inclined surfaces. The drainage hole 43 is provided at such a height as not to touch the culture fluid stored in the culture fluid reservoir 20.

(Culture fluid storage container 10)
The culture fluid storage container 10 is disposed below the culture medium container 40. The culture solution storage container 10 is a bottomed box-shaped container having a rectangular shape whose cross-sectional shape in the horizontal direction is substantially the same as that of the culture medium storage container 40 and whose upper part is open. As described above, since the medium storage container 40 and the culture solution storage container 10 have substantially the same horizontal cross section, the step portion 41 of the culture solution storage container 10 is mounted on the upper end portion of the culture medium container 40. The culture medium storage container 40 and the culture solution storage container 10 look integrated in appearance as shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 2, the bottom portion 13 of the culture solution storage container 10 is provided with a hole 14 for draining water, and an openable and closable plug 15 is attached to the hole 14.
In addition, insertion holes 16 are provided on the front and rear surfaces in the longitudinal direction of the culture fluid storage container 10. A tubular member 17 is inserted through an insertion hole 16 provided in the surface of the culture fluid storage container 10 facing the other culture fluid storage container 10. One tubular member 17 is inserted into an insertion hole 16 provided in the culture fluid storage container 10 adjacent to each other. Thus, the culture fluid storage containers 10 adjacent to each other are connected, and the flow of the culture fluid stored therein becomes possible.

(Delivery pump 30)
As described above, the liquid transfer pump 30 is disposed inside the culture solution storage container 10 of one of the cultivation assemblies 2 (in the embodiment, the foremost cultivation assembly 2). The liquid feed pump 30 is, for example, preferably an amphibious pump with low noise.
In the present embodiment, the liquid transfer pump 30 is disposed inside the culture fluid storage container 10 as described above. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and may be disposed outside the culture fluid storage container 10.

(Watering pipe 31)
A water supply pipe 31 extends from the liquid feed pump 30 as a liquid feed line. The water spray pipe 31 extends upward from the outside of the culture solution storage container 10 through an insertion hole 16 provided in the surface of the culture solution storage container 10 not facing the other culture solution storage container 10.
Holes 47 are respectively provided on the front and back surfaces of the culture medium container 40. The watering pipes 31 extend through the holes 47 on the respective culture medium containers 40 in the cultivation assemblies 2A, 2B and 2C to the rear end of the cultivation assembly 2C.

  A plurality of water spray holes 31 a are provided in the lower part of the portion of the water spray pipe 31 passing above the cultivation assemblies 2A, 2B, 2C.

(5)
As shown in FIG. 3, a gantry 5 can be attached to the outer periphery of each cultivation assembly 2 in the cultivation device 1, and the cultivation system 3 is formed by the cultivation device 1 and the gantry 5.
The gantry 5 is for, for example, attracting fertile plants grown by the cultivation apparatus 1.
The gantry 5 includes two support columns 51 disposed at the front and rear ends of the cultivation assembly 2 in the longitudinal direction and extending vertically. The support columns 51 can be separated into the upper support column 51A and the lower support column 51B, respectively, and the upper support column 51A can be attached to and detached from the lower support column 51B.
The gantry 5 includes a mounting portion 5 </ b> B attached to the outer periphery of the cultivation assembly 2 and an inducer 5 </ b> A disposed above the cultivation assembly 2.

The inducer 5A includes an upper support column 51A, and an upper horizontal column 52a and a lower horizontal column 52b extending in the longitudinal direction between the two upper support columns 51A.
Furthermore, a plurality of induction columns 53 extending in the vertical direction alternately arranged on one side and the other side in the width direction across the upper horizontal column 52a and the lower horizontal column 52b, and the induction columns 53 arranged alternately are mutually connected And an auxiliary member 54 disposed to cross the cross column.

  The mounting portion 5B extends obliquely from the lower support pillar 51B at the lower portion of the outer frame portion 55 disposed on the outer periphery of the lower portion of the culture solution storage container 10, the lower support pillar 51B, and the lower support pillar 51B. And a reinforcing member 56 for reinforcing the upright of the support post 51 by being connected to the portion 55.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 3, on the outside of the front and rear surfaces in the longitudinal direction of the culture fluid storage container 10 and the culture medium storage container 40, a gantry mounting recess 29 into which the lower support column 51B can be fitted is provided.

(how to use)
The mounting portion 5 </ b> B of the gantry 5 is mounted on the outer periphery of each culture fluid storage container 10.
The plurality of culture solution storage containers 10 to which the mounting portion 5B is mounted are arranged side by side in the longitudinal direction.
One tubular member 17 is inserted into the two facing insertion holes 16. Thereby, a plurality of culture solution storage containers 10 are connected.
The culture solution is put into the inside of each culture solution storage container 10. The culture medium container 40 is disposed thereon.

  A culture soil as a culture medium is contained in the medium storage container 40 either before or after being disposed on the culture solution storage container 10, and plants are planted in the culture soil.

The inducer 5A of the gantry 5 is attached to the mounting portion 5B.
The liquid feed pump 30 is operated. The time for operating the liquid transfer pump 30 varies depending on the season etc., but is, for example, once a day, about 5 minutes, and the time can be managed by a timer or the like.
When the liquid feed pump 30 is operated, the culture solution is delivered to the upper part along the water spray pipe 31 and sprayed from the water spray holes 31 a to the medium.
The watered culture solution penetrates the culture medium 46. According to the present embodiment, since the bottom 44 of the culture medium container 40 is a slope which becomes lower from the front to the rear, the culture fluid which has not been absorbed flows from the drainage hole 43 to the rear side through the bottom. Spill out.

(effect)
As described above, since the culture solution is automatically sent by the liquid feed pump 30, it is possible to save the user's time for water sprinkling and supply of the culture solution. In addition, there is no occurrence of dryness or hypoplasia due to a forgotten supply of the culture solution.

  The culture solution is not overflowing, and the culture solution not absorbed by the medium flows out from the drainage hole 43 of the planter to the culture solution storage container 10. The culture solution stored in the culture solution storage container 10 is again sent to the medium by the liquid transfer pump 30, so that the culture solution is not wasted. Therefore, there is little possibility of environmental pollution.

  Since the culture solution is stored in the culture solution storage container 10, liquid manure management becomes easy and fertilization work can be shortened.

  Further, since the culture fluid storage container 10 and the culture medium storage container 40 are installed and integrated in the culture fluid storage container 10, there is no need to separately provide a culture fluid tank etc., and the installation location of the tank becomes unnecessary. Space can be achieved.

Since the bottom 44 of the medium container 40 is a slope which becomes lower from front to back, the watered culture solution is absorbed by the medium 46 until it reaches the bottom. Then, the culture fluid that has not been absorbed flows through the bottom and flows out from the drainage hole 43 to the culture fluid storage container 10 to the rear side.
Here, if a plurality of drainage holes 43 are provided on the bottom, the watered culture solution may immediately flow out, and the culture solution may not sufficiently penetrate the medium 46. However, according to the present embodiment, the drainage hole 43 is provided at the lowest portion in the bottom. Then, since the water-poured culture fluid flows on the bottom until reaching the drainage hole 43, it is retained for a certain period of time, and the culture fluid sufficiently penetrates the culture fluid 46.

Since a set of a plurality of pairs of culture fluid storage containers 10 and a culture medium storage container 40 are connected and watering is performed by one liquid feed pump 30, it is efficient and economical.
By passing a single tubular member 17 through the insertion hole 16 provided in the culture fluid storage container 10, the adjacent culture fluid storage containers 10 are connected to each other.
Thereby, the culture solution stored in the culture solution storage container 10 can flow between the adjacent culture solution storage containers 10, and batch management of the liquid volume is possible.

  Since the gantry 5 can be attached to the cultivation apparatus 1, the cultivation system 3 in which the cultivation apparatus 1 and the gantry 5 are integrated can be provided. Therefore, wall surface greening can be performed by this cultivation system 3 alone.

  In the present embodiment, the culture solution storage container 10 is disposed so as to overlap the entire surface of the upper portion of the culture medium storage container 40. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the overlap between the culture medium storage container 40 and the culture solution storage container 10 may be a part, not the entire surface. Furthermore, the medium storage container 40 may not be overlapped with the medium storage container 40, and may be disposed at another place.

  Furthermore, although the cross-sectional shape of the horizontal direction of the culture medium storage container 40 and the culture solution storage container 10 was the same shape in this embodiment, it is not limited to this. For example, the medium storage container 40 and the culture solution storage container 10 may each have a shape corresponding to the shape of the wall or floor where the cultivation apparatus 1 is installed. FIG. 4 shows a form in which the cultivation device 1 has a shape corresponding to the installation position. FIG. 4A shows an embodiment in which the width of the culture medium container 40 is reduced according to the size of the protrusion A when the protrusion A is provided on the side wall of the place where the cultivation apparatus 1 is disposed. Indicates In FIG. 4B, when the protruding portion B is provided on the floor of the place where the growing apparatus 1 is disposed, the recess is provided in the culture solution storage container 10 corresponding to the size of the protruding portion B. Indicates the form.

Second Embodiment
Drawing 5 is a figure showing cultivation system 103 of a 2nd embodiment of the present invention. The cultivation apparatus 1 of 2nd Embodiment is the same as that of 1st Embodiment. The difference from the first embodiment is that the gantry 105 is attached to the side surface of the cultivation apparatus 1 and a lid member 120 covering the top surface of the culture medium container 40 is provided. The description of the same points as the first embodiment is omitted.

  According to the second embodiment, in addition to the same effect as the first embodiment, since the lid member 120 covering the upper surface of the culture medium container 40 is provided, the vicinity of the root of the plant arranged in the culture medium 46 is covered. Can. Therefore, since the root vicinity of a plant is covered from the outside, it is more excellent in beauty. In the case of a dwarf plant, the lid member 120 does not cause an obstacle in the case of a fertile plant for the irradiation of sunlight.

Third Embodiment
Drawing 6 is a figure showing cultivation device 300 of a 3rd embodiment. The third embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that a switching valve 60 is provided in the middle of a pipe 61 extending from the liquid feed pump 30 to the water spray pipe 31. The water pipe 31 is connected to one side of the flow path switched by the switching valve 60, and the drain pipe 62 is connected to the other side. The other configuration is the same as that of the first embodiment, so the description of the same configuration is omitted.

By operating the switching valve 60, the flow path of the culture solution which is sent from the liquid feed pump 30 and passes through the pipe 61 can be switched between the water spray pipe 31 and the drainage pipe 62.
When the flow path of the culture solution sent from the liquid feed pump 30 and passing through the pipe 61 is connected to the water spray pipe 31, the culture solution is sent to the water spray pipe 31 and sprayed to the culture medium.
When the flow path of the culture solution sent from the liquid transfer pump 30 and passing through the pipe 61 is switched by the operation of the switching valve 60 and connected to the drainage pipe 62, the culture solution stored in the culture solution storage container 10 is , And drained out through the drain pipe 61.

  According to the present embodiment, the culture solution can be sucked and discharged by the liquid feed pump 30 to the outside. Thus, the culture solution can be easily discharged to the outside, for example, when the culture solution is replaced, or when the culture solution storage container 10 is washed.

Fourth Embodiment
FIG. 7 is a view showing a cultivation apparatus 400 of the fourth embodiment. The fourth embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that a float valve 72 penetrating the wall of the culture solution storage container 10 is provided, and a float 71 extends from the float valve 72 into the culture solution storage container 10 It is a point. The float valve 72 opens and closes according to the position of the float 71. A water supply source 73 and a fertilizer supply source 74 are connected to the float valve 72 respectively. The other configuration is the same as that of the first embodiment, so the description of the same configuration is omitted.

  When the water level of the culture solution in the culture solution storage container 10 becomes lower than the predetermined water level, the float valve 72 extending from the float 71 opens and water and the water supply source 73 and the fertilizer supply source 74 such as water supply to the culture solution storage container 10 Supplied with fertilizer. When the water level of the culture solution in the culture solution storage container 10 exceeds the predetermined water level, the float valve 72 is closed, and the supply of water and fertilizer from the water supply source 73 and the fertilizer supply source 74 such as water supply is stopped.

  Thereby, the amount of water and the amount of fertilizer in the culture fluid storage container 10 can be kept constant. A float valve and a float may be provided for the water supply source 73 and the fertilizer supply source 74, respectively, and may be separately opened and closed.

Fifth Embodiment
FIG. 8 is a view showing a cultivation apparatus 500 of the fifth embodiment. The fourth embodiment is different from the fifth embodiment in that a recess 13 a is provided at the bottom of the culture solution storage container 10. The pump 30 is disposed in the recess 13a.
The movement of the liquid feed pump 30 in the front-rear direction is restricted by the concave portion 13a, and the liquid feed pump 30 is prevented from moving past the concave portion 13a at the time of transportation or the like.
Further, by providing the recess 13a, the water level (water depth) in the recess 13a becomes higher than that in the other portions, and it is possible to secure a water level that can be sucked by the liquid feed pump 30. Therefore, it is possible to make the apparatus compact while securing an effective amount of water for the liquid transfer pump 30 in the culture solution storage container 10.

1,300,400 cultivation apparatus 2,2A, 2B, 2C cultivation assembly 3,103 cultivation system 5,105 mount 5A attraction part 5B mounting part 10 culture solution storage container 13 bottom part 14 hole 16 insertion hole 17 tubular member 29 mount Recess 30 Feed pump 31 Sprinkler pipe 31a Sprinkler hole 40 Culture medium storage container 41 Step 43 Through hole 44 Bottom 46 Culture medium 120 Cover member

Claims (5)

A culture solution storage container which is open at the top and stores the culture solution inside;
A culture assembly connected so as to close the opened upper surface of the culture fluid storage container, and capable of placing a culture medium;
A water sprinkling line for sprinkling the culture fluid stored in the culture fluid storage container into the culture medium container;
And a liquid transfer pump disposed inside the liquid culture solution storage container while sending the culture liquid to the sprinkling line,
The other end bottom face of the medium container along the longitudinal direction, from the culture liquid storage one end of the culture solution by the liquid feed pump in the container is sucked, wherein the culture solution in the culture solution storage container is not sucked It is an inclined surface that is inclined to be lower toward the side,
A drain hole is provided in the lower end region of the inclined bottom surface, and no drain hole is provided except the other end region of the inclined surface,
The culture fluid storage container includes a pair of end wall portions facing each other, and the end wall portion is provided with a through hole.
A cultivation apparatus capable of connecting a plurality of cultivation assemblies. Holes are provided on the front and back surfaces of the culture medium container,
The cultivation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the watering lines pass on the medium storage container through the respective holes. A switching valve is provided in the middle of a pipe extending from the liquid feed pump to the sprinkling line, one of the switching valves is connected to the sprinkling line, and the other is connected to a drainage pipe.
The cultivation apparatus according to claim 1 or 2. A lid covering an upper surface of the culture medium container;
The cultivation apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3. The cultivation apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4, and
An attachment unit attached to an outer periphery of the culture fluid storage container and the culture medium container;
A mount which is attachable to and detachable from the mounting unit and is provided at an upper portion of the culture medium container.
Cultivation system equipped with.

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