NL1024420C2 - Device is for retention of plant soil material and comprises limiting components for holding soil and positioning units which hold the limiting components one above other - Google Patents

Abstract

The device (1) is for the retention of plant soil material and comprises limiting components or boxes (2,3) for holding soil and positioning units which hold the limiting components one above the other, when they are filled with soil. The positioning units comprise at least one upright (6), which has support devices for holding the limiting components. The positioning units incorporate a securing body which extends through a first opening (12) in an upright and a second opening in a limiting component supported by the upright.

Description

Brief indication: Device for plant bulb and device for plant wall.

DESCRIPTION

The present invention relates to a device for holding plant soil material together, comprising limiting means for holding the plant soil material and positioning means for positioning the limiting elements one above the other for the condition of the device filled with plant soil material on the upper side of limiting elements. of different levels of plant soil material, the positioning means comprising at least one upright, the at least one upright comprising support means for supporting the limiting members.

Such a device is known from Australian patent AU-B-29827/84, in which a flat holder is described as a flat head for bounding green areas which consists of a number of posts to which holders as limiting members are permanently held in position with the aid of of spaced holes in the uprights. Suspension takes place by means of hooks and eyes (the holes) or by holding holders clamping between posts, the holders being hung with their corners in holes in the posts. A drawback of such a construction is that a holder can easily become detached from the plant holder or can be dismantled by third parties. Since such plant column omen are often arranged as decoration in public places, there is no supervision present to hang up detached containers again. Moreover, this invites theft, vandalism and destruction.

EP 0 958 736 A1 describes a plant column that is composed of a number of trays without a bottom stacked on top of each other. The column tapers from bottom to top. The bins have walls that have 1 0 2 4 kt 0

tapered from top to bottom and a central vertical axis that with I

the wall is connected by a number of ribs. The ribs become I

used as supports for a subsequent bin that is on the bin in question I

stacked. Stacked containers are held together by I

5 is a tube extending vertically through the vertical axes of the I

bins and which is anchored to the bottom by means of

a foot. I

A drawback of such a construction is that an I

holder in addition to an outer wall also internal parts such as a shaft and I

10 must comprise partition walls, because they are necessary for the above I

holder. That makes the holder a complex part. I

Another drawback is that the device due to the I

shape of the containers is relatively bulky and therefore not easy to I

handling. For example, when mounting, each holder must be completely assembled

15 to slide the holder over the internal axis. Another disadvantage I

of the bulky containers is that an assembly In disassembled I

state still occupies a relatively large amount of space, leading to high I

storage costs of disassembled assemblies and high transport costs for I

to or from a location where an assembly is to be built up I

20 has been dismantled. I

Another disadvantage is that it is plant-based material I

Filling such a built-up pi antenkol to be impeded by the I

ribs and shafts, which ensure that the plant soil material is not I

flows easily through the bottoms of the stacked containers. I

Therefore, in practice, a container is always first positioned and filled I

with plant soil material before the next container is positioned. I

Another disadvantage is that the trays with their ribs are the I

determine the mutual vertical positioning of the bins. If an I

a different difference in height is desirable, others are I

30 bins needed. That makes the bulky, non-flexible containers usable. I

In practice, pl antenkol from EP 0 958 736 A1 is not I

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3 has proved to be ideal and in the meantime the patent holder in question is marketing pl antenkol ommen where the shaft and ribs have been replaced by two pins extending horizontally through holes in the walls of the bins. There is also no longer any tube present that further holds the bins together. A drawback of this embodiment is that the intersecting pins cannot cross each other in the same plane, so that no flat support is provided for a tray to be carried by the pins. This results in the construction becoming unstable. The pins are furthermore easy to remove and use vandals 10 as stabbing weapons, which has already occurred in practice. In addition to the safety risk, it appears to be difficult to place a new pin again after the removal of a pin without breaking off the column, or at least the portion that is above the pins.

The present invention has for its object to provide a device for holding plant soil material together according to the introduction which, whether or not in preferred embodiments, overcomes the above-mentioned drawbacks or at least at least a part thereof, and wherein the holders cannot easily be detached or removed by third parties. This object is achieved with the device according to the present invention in that the positioning means comprise a locking body which extends through a first passage in an upright and a second passage in a limiting member carried by the upright. The securing of the limiting members to the positioning means has a number of advantages. In the first place, the limiting members are held in their position even better by means of the locking means. This leads to a more stable device that cannot easily come loose from itself. A second advantage, which is becoming increasingly topical today, is that the securing ensures that it is not possible, for example, for vandals to remove the limiting means from the device, possibly to cause further damage with components thereof.

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In a preferred embodiment of the device, the I

at least one upright protrusions on which the limiting members rest. I

Here the protrusions on the uprights both have a function of I

positioning means as well as carrying means and are those functions at I

5 compared to the prior art carried out by the I

limiting members instead of by the positioning means, whereby I

the limiting means do not have to be made of additional parts I

provided for carrying overhead limiting means. An I

protrusion does not have to be outside of a stand, but can I

10 may equally well be formed by a part of the recess that faces I

extends outside in the direction of the side of the upright in which the I

a recess is provided, for example a column with rectangular I

cross section from which the recesses have been milled. I

Preferably at least a part of the I comprises

15 limiting members are a container with a bottom that is at least partially open. Because I

the bottom is completely or at least partially open, it is possible for the I

first assemble the device in its entirety, after which the device I

is filled with plant soil material. The plant soil material can then be I

from above through the bottom of the first limiting means I

20 fully paid up and then possibly side edges with plant soil material I

be filled from the side. As a result, the filling of an I takes place

furnishing quickly and efficiently. I

In a preferred embodiment according to the invention I

the device comprises a number of posts, the limiting means I

25 extend substantially horizontally between support means of the I

uprights. This makes it possible to pass the limiting means through I

to have several stands supported, so that a stable construction I

and whereby the limiting means can produce a desired pattern I

resulting in many shapes and varied dimensions of an I

Device can be achieved. I

Opposite stands preferably slope towards I

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5 each other. As a result, an upwardly tapered construction is provided which can hold plant soil material together in a natural-looking manner, whereby a planted construction on the one hand has the appearance of a steep accumulation of soil and on the other hand is protected against erosion by the construction.

In a still further preferred embodiment according to the invention, the locking body extends substantially parallel to the upright. This makes it easy to insert the retaining body in one movement through the upright or to remove it from the upright during disassembly.

The device is preferably provided with a bottom member and mounting means for fixing lower ends of the at least one upright to the bottom member. By attaching the uprights to a bottom member, not only are the individual uprights positioned, but the individual uprights are also positioned relative to each other, whereby a sturdy device is created and the shape of that device is fixed.

The bottom member is further preferably provided with spacers for keeping the bottom member at a distance from a substrate. The spacers do not have to extend over a large part of the bottom member, cylindrical or cube-shaped blocks suffice. The spacers make it possible for the device to be moved by a means of transport, for example a pallet truck. When cube or cylindrical blocks are used as spacers, the device can be approached from different directions by a transport means, whereby it is in principle always possible to slide the spoons of such a pallet truck or forklift under the device.

In a further preferred embodiment, positioning means comprise a coupling member for coupling the uprights at the upper ends of the uprights and the bottom member preferably has a substantially closed bottom and the bottom member is 1 0 2 4 4.2 0

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device provided with a lifting device to which the device can be attached I

lifted. By also connecting the uprights together at the top I

the shape of the device can be determined. When that happens if, I

as previously described, the uprights at the lower ends I

5 are also attached to the bottom member, the shape of the device is I

determined and a robust construction has emerged. The device is I

simply lift by means of a hoisting means via the hoisting element. I

Because the uprights are mutually and moreover with the bottom member I

connected, the entire device can be moved by means of that one hoisting device I

10 are lifted.

In another preferred embodiment according to I

In accordance with the invention, the positioning means comprise connecting elements for I

connecting a number I substantially in a straight plane

uprights. This allows the device to travel over a fairly large I

15 and the device can for instance be used as I

noise barrier.

In a further preferred embodiment according to I

In this invention, the limiting members in the horizontal plane define an I

elongated outline. Such a construction would if desired to I

20 two sides can be planted differently. This is how I imagine it

that when applying a noise barrier next to, for example, a highway the I

noise barrier on the roadside is provided with green, hardy plants, I

while on the other side, where there may be a residential area, what I

more colors are introduced that may be different per season

25 planting is applied. I

The invention will be further elucidated with reference to

the description of the preferred embodiments of the invention. An I

and others are inter alia shown in the following sketchy

figures, in which corresponding parts are provided with the same I

Reference numeral, one in which: I

Figure 1 shows a perspective side view of one

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7 first preferred embodiment device for holding plant soil material together according to the invention;

Figure 2 shows an exploded view of the first preferred embodiment of Figure 1, wherein the limiting members have been omitted for the sake of clarity;

Figure 3 shows a perspective side view of a second preferred embodiment of a device for holding plant soil material according to the invention together;

Figure 4 shows a perspective side view of a third preferred embodiment of a device for holding plant soil material together according to the invention;

Figure 5 shows a perspective side view of a fourth preferred embodiment of a device according to the present invention for use with a sound barrier; Figure 6 shows a perspective side view of a fifth preferred embodiment of a device according to the present invention for use with a lower wall; and

Figure 7 shows a perspective side view of a sixth preferred embodiment of a device according to the present invention for use with a wall.

Referring to Figure 1, a planting round 1 is shown with open bottom trays 2 as limiting means and a bottom tray 3 to which spacers 4 and mounting hooks 5 are arranged. Four uprights 6 extend inclined upwards from the bottom trough 3 in the direction of a coupling piece 7 of two parts, one of which is provided with a lifting eye 8. Through the uprights 6 locking pins 9 extend which up in the uprights 6 are provided in slots 11.

In Figure 2, with the exception of the trays 2, the same parts are shown as in Figure 1, but Figure 2 shows more clearly how the different parts work together. It is in particular visible how the locking pins 9 are received in the upright 6 to 24 o

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and thereby extending through the recesses 10 on the underside I

of which, in the mounted state of the device, the trays 2 are I

are located. Because in the trays 2 in Figure 2 in all eight sides I

If the locking holes 12 are provided, the locking holes 12 are in the front sides I

5, which are also provided in the sides which are in the recesses 10 I

are placed. The locking pin 9 extends in the mounted state thereby I

also through the locking holes 12 of the trays 2 which are in the I

corresponding recesses 10. Furthermore, Figure 2 also shows I

mounting plate 13 visible on which an upright 6 is placed on the underside I

10 confirmed. I

Figures 3 and 4 show two variants of the plenum core around 51 l

from figure 1. In figures 3 and 4, respectively, the trays 32, 52 have I

open bottom as limiting means and bottom trays 33, 53 another I

shape for placement, for example, around an angle or against an I

15 wall of a building (not shown). At the bottom of the plant column 51 I

there are bottom trays 33, 53 to which spacers 34, 54 l

applied. From the bottom tray 33, 53, three I always extend

uprights 36, 56 inclined upwards in the direction of a coupling piece I

37, 57 from two parts, one of which is provided with a lifting eye 38, 58. I

Locking pins 39, 59 extend through the uprights 36, 56 and those in I above

the uprights 36, 56 are accommodated in slots 41, 61. I

Figure 5 shows a plant wall 20 that is composed of an I

number of stands .21 interconnected by means of I

different cross members 22, horizontal spacers 23 and struts I

24. The uprights 21 are each provided with a number of recesses 25 I

through which plates 26 extend for the I

keeping plant soil material together (not shown) when that occurs I

is located between the two side walls of the plant wall 20. The plant wall 20 I

is placed on two concrete feet 27 which stably place the plant wall on I

30 keep away from the surface. I

Figure 6 shows a variant of an embodiment such as I

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9 plant wall 70, for example for the application of a wall or slope in a landscape. The plant wall 70 is built up on an elongated bottom plate 73 with upright side walls 74. The uprights 71 are supported by struts 72. The plates 76 extending through the recesses 75 are thereby also supported by triangular protrusions 78 which in this case are largely located outside the circumferential lines of the uprights 71.

Figure 7 shows another embodiment of a plant wall 81, which is constructed in the same way as the columns of Figures 1 to 4. This plant wall 81 consists of trays 82 with open bottom as limiting means and a bottom tray 83 to which spacers 84 are arranged . Six uprights 86 extend inclined upwards from the base trough 83. Four of the six uprights 86 then run in the direction of two coupling pieces 87 of two parts, one of which is each provided with a lifting eye 88.

Referring to Figures 1 and 2, a plant column 1 according to the present invention is constructed in that first the uprights 6 are attached to the coupling piece 7 and the bottom 3. Thereafter the trays 2 are lifted over the coupling piece and the uprights and into the relevant recesses 10 of the uprights 6, taking care that the locking holes 12 are located exactly in the middle of the upright 6. However, the trays 2 can also be formed by separate plates that are assembled into a tray 2 during assembly. When all the trays 2 are placed, a locking pin 9 is inserted from above into each upright 6, which in this case is enclosed by the outer walls of the upright 6. The locking pin 9 also extends through the locking holes 12 of the trays 2 which are located in the relevant upright 6. On the top of an upright 6 the locking pin 9 is suspended in a slot 11. Now that the pi antenna column is mounted around, the 30 pi antenna column 1 can be filled with plant soil material (not shown) which passes through the upper opening and the side openings in the plant column 1 can 1 0 2 4 42 0

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be deposited. As a result, at the top of each bin 2 is replaced by I

the plant soil material forms a substantially horizontal soil bed I

in which plants can be planted. When the bins of Corten steel I

have been manufactured, the trays are generally not clearly visible between I

5 through the plants, because this steel tends to be on the outside

rust but otherwise very resistant to external damage. I

When a plant cola with 1 with plants is placed in a location where I

when an event is going to be held, the plant colony can be completely filled 1

can be easily moved by the plant column around 1 at the lifting eye 8 on I

10 to lift and move. At other events, such an I

a plant column 1 can be moved in order to dress the environment. I

Moving can also be done by a pallet truck or forklift truck (not I

shown) with the spoons under the plant column 1, the column on I

to lift and then move. I

The embodiment variants 31 I shown in Figures 3, 4 and 7

and 51 serve to indicate that plant column is ommen according to the present I

invention can be practiced in many different forms and that the I

it is possible to form a plant wall 81 as a plant column. I

Functionally they work identically, with the plant wall 81 generally in I

20 the free space will be arranged, while the plant column ommen 31, 51 in I

the rule around a corner or against a facade of a building will be I

are drawn up. I

An entirely different embodiment according to the invention I

is shown in Figure 5, showing a plant wall 20 that is I

25 composed of a number of uprights 21 which In two planes that go to I

each other hells are positioned and held in place by I

different cross members 22, spacers 23 and struts 24. Here too I

are recesses 25 in the uprights 21a, in which in this case I

elongate plates 26. The recesses are with this I

30 embodiment arranged in a completely different way, whereby the I

underside of the recesses 25 no longer as protrusions I

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11 are recognizable. Further, although not shown in the figure, also with this embodiment, locking pins can extend through the uprights 21 and locking holes (not shown) in the plates 26.

In this way a long wall can be assembled, as it were, which can also be filled with plant soil material (not shown). A partition can be created in this way, but it is also possible to manufacture a sound wall in this way, for example for placement along a highway.

The variant as shown in Fig. 6 is a wall of pegs that will be used 10 elevations more for a decorative than for a functional plant bed, but here too the different parts work together as in Fig.

On the above-described plant column around a plant wall which, after filing this patent application, will be available under the brand name Florid Flower Systems, many variants are possible that are obvious to a skilled person skilled in the art. The above description and the figures describe and show, by way of example only, preferred embodiments of the invention and it is not intended that the description or the figures limit the scope of the invention.

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Claims (12)

12 I CONCLUSIONS I 1. Device for holding plant soil material together, comprising limiting members for holding the plant soil material and positioning means for positioning the limiting elements one above the other for providing the condition of the device filled with plant soil material on the upper side of limiting elements different levels of plant soil material, the positioning means comprising at least one upright, the at least one upright comprising supporting means for supporting the limiting members, characterized in that the positioning means comprise a securing body which extends through a first passage in a post and a second passage in a restraining member carried by the post. I 2. Device as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the securing body extends substantially parallel to the upright. I Device as claimed in claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the at least one upright comprises protrusions on which the limiting members I rest. I Device as claimed in any of the foregoing claims, characterized in that at least a part of the limiting members comprises a container with an at least partially open bottom. I 5. Device as claimed in any of the foregoing claims, characterized in that the device comprises a number of uprights wherein the limiting means extend substantially horizontally between I supporting means of the uprights. I Device as claimed in claim 5, characterized in that opposite stands are inclined towards each other. I 7. Device as claimed in any of the foregoing claims, characterized in that the device is provided with a bottom member and mounting means for attaching the bottom end of the at least one upright to the bottom member. Device as claimed in claim 7, characterized in that the bottom member is provided with spacers for keeping the bottom member at a distance from a substrate. Device as claimed in any of the foregoing claims 5 to 8, characterized in that the positioning means comprise a coupling member for coupling the posts at the upper ends of the posts. Device as claimed in any of the foregoing claims, characterized in that the bottom member has a substantially closed bottom and that the device is provided with a hoisting member on which the device can be hoisted. 11. Device as claimed in any of the foregoing claims, characterized in that the positioning means comprise connecting elements for substantially mutually connecting a number of uprights in a straight plane. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the limiting members define an elongated circumference in the horizontal plane. 20 10 2442 0 * ·· "Λ *