SU1598926A1 - Vegetational vessel for plants - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to crop production and can be used in zero gravity conditions. The purpose of the invention is to reduce labor costs for planting seeds, improving their germination and accelerating plant growth. The vegetation vessel contains a cuvette 1 of opaque hydrophobic material with a removable cover 3 of a hydrophobic porous material. An ion-exchange granulated substrate 5 is placed inside the cuvette. The lid has slit-like openings for the exit of the multi-layered fiber wicks 4. Between the upper ends of the wicks 4 there are fixed landing strips 10 with through slots 11 for fastening the seeds. The slats are made of translucent and chemically resistant material. In the substrate 5 there are vertical plates 6 made of porous hydrophilic material with perforated pipes 7 placed inside them. Between them, similar pipes 8 and a humidity sensor 9 are placed in the substrate 5. The lower ends of the wicks 4 are in contact with the vertical plates 6 and the humidity sensor 9. Plant seeds are pre-fixed on glue in the nests of the landing strips. Planks are inserted from above and fixed between the upper ends of the wicks 4. A dose of water is supplied through pipelines 7 and spreads along vertical plates and wicks 4, gets into the prospecting seeds, humidity sensor 9 and substrate 5. Air is fed through a pipe 8 to aerate plant roots in the substrate 5, which then exits through the conical holes 12 in the walls of the cuvette. When water is consumed by the plants, the substrate 5 and the wick 4 dry out and the humidity sensor 9 sends a signal to supply the next dose of water. 3 il.

Description

The invention relates to crop production and can be used in zero gravity conditions.

The purpose of the invention is to reduce labor costs for planting seeds, improving their germination and accelerating plant growth.

FIG. 1 depicts a growing vessel, a cross-section; in fig. 2 - planting node of the growing season; in fig. 3 shows section A-A in FIG. one.

A vegetation vessel contains a cuvette I of an opaque, hydrophobic material. The side walls and the bottom of the cuvette 1 are coated on the inside with a layer of hydrophobic air-permeable material 2. Cuvette 1 is covered with a removable opaque hydrophobic porous lid 3 having silky holes for the exit of the multi-layered fiber wicks 4. The cuvette 1 is filled with ionized granulated substrate 5 with i-in-the-wicker wicker wicker 4. The case of the cell 1 is filled with ionized granulated substrate 5, where you can place in a case where I’m placed in a wall-mounted fiber wick. 6 of a porous hydrophilic material. Inside the vertical plates 6 and between them at a depth equal to half the thickness of the substrate layer 5, horizontal perforated pipes 7 for supplying water and pipelines 8 for supplying air are installed. Between the vertical plates 6, the humidity sensor 9 is immersed in the substrate 5. The lower ends of the multi-layered fiber wicks 4 are in contact with the vertical plates 6, as well as with the sensor body

9humidity. Between the upper ends of the layers of multilayer fiber wicks 4, landing strips 10 of light transmitting and chemically resistant material with a thickness approximately equal to the seed diameter are installed in a fixed position. On the side surfaces of the landing strips

10 made through slots 11 to secure the seeds, which on one side of the plank has dimensions that are larger, and on the other, smaller than those of seeds. The side walls of the cuvette are made with through conical holes 12. The slats 10 are fixed in the latches 13.

The device works as follows.

Plant seeds are inserted into the through nests 11 from the larger side and fixed therein, for example, with a water-soluble glue. This operation is more convenient to do in ground conditions. Due to the fact that the thickness of the planting strip is approximately equal to the diameter of the seeds, the seeds in a secured state are few in favor of the dimensions of the plank, which protects them from mechanical damage. Onboard the spacecraft, the landing strips 10 with seeds are inserted between the upper ends of the layers of multilayer fiber wicks 4 to a predetermined depth, while the position of the strips 10 is fixed in clamps 13 installed on the upper edges of the end sides of the cuvette 1. Through a perforated horizontal pipelines 7, a dose of water is supplied . Water spreads primarily on the vertical plates 6 of porous hydrophilic material, which has a large moisture content and then on a multi-layered fibrous wick, m 4, falling into the germinated seeds.

change and to the humidity sensor 9. Gradually

moisture from the vertical plates 6 begins to spread into the ion-exchange granulated substrate 5. Vertical arrangement of the plates 6 and the installation of perforated pipes 7 for supplying water

inside the vertical plates 6 and at a depth equal to half a layer of ion exchange granulated substrate 5, provides a quick leveling of the moisture content of the substrate 5 over the depth of the cuvette 1, which improves the water regime in the root zone during the growing season. Through horizontal perforated pipes 8, installed between the vertical plates 6 at a depth equal to half the thickness of the substrate layer 5, air is supplied to purge it, aerate the plant roots and remove carbon dioxide formed during the root respiration process. The supplied air is evenly distributed throughout the entire volume of the substrate 5 and exits through perforations in the side walls of the cuvette 1. The conical shape of the openings 12 (large outside diameters) in the side walls of the cuvette 1, as well as the hydrophobic inner coating of the walls prevents from the possibility of "watering the holes 12 and losses of droplet fluid from cuvette 1 and deterioration of the water-air regime in the root zone of plants.

As the multilayer fiber wicks 4 and substrate 5 dry out, due to the water consumption of the plant and its evaporation from the surfaces of the walls of the cuvette 1

and cover 3, the humidity sensor 9 sends a signal to supply subsequent doses of water through pipeline 7. After the light is turned on above the growing pot, the seedlings are oriented along the landing strips 10, made of light transmitting and chemically

resistant material that brings light to the seeds. After rooting of seedlings of plants, a landing plank and 10 can be removed from a growing plant. Due to the fact that the cuvette 1 is made of opaque material, the substrate does not develop

phototrophic microorganisms, improves root development and, as a result, plant growth.

Claims (1)

Invention Formula A vegetation vessel for plants comprising a cuvette of opaque hydrophobic material with a lid of a hydrophobic porous material with plant openings and side walls, perforated conical holes and covered from the inside with a layer of hydrophobic air-permeable material, while the cuvette is filled with an ion-exchange granulated substrate. it has vertical plates of porous hydrophilic material and perforated pipes, the latter being placed inside tikalnyh plates and therebetween at a depth equal to half of the thickness of the substrate layer, characterized in that, in order to reduce labor when planting seeds enhance their germination and accelerate plant growth, growing The vessel is equipped with landing strips and multi-layered fiber wicks and a humidity sensor placed in the substrate, while the landing strips are made of translucent and chemically resistant material with through nests for placing seeds, while the holes in the lid are slit-shaped, and multi-layered fiber wicks are fitted with an outlet out of the upper ends through the holes in the lid, and their lower ends are in contact with the vertical plates and the humidity sensor, and the landing strips are fixed between layers of multilayer fibrous wicks. / f FIG. 2 13 Vn У77 / А уЯ 7АУ / АУ7Ж) У / АУ / ЛУ / Л // АУ / Л Уу ig.Z