US20030062282A1 - Container for vegetables with a sealed water reserve - Google Patents

Container for vegetables with a sealed water reserve Download PDF

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US20030062282A1
US20030062282A1 US10/247,610 US24761002A US2003062282A1 US 20030062282 A1 US20030062282 A1 US 20030062282A1 US 24761002 A US24761002 A US 24761002A US 2003062282 A1 US2003062282 A1 US 2003062282A1
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Josiane Bianchi
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01G—HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING
    • A01G27/00—Self-acting watering devices, e.g. for flower-pots
    • A01G27/02—Self-acting watering devices, e.g. for flower-pots having a water reservoir, the main part thereof being located wholly around or directly beside the growth substrate
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01G—HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING
    • A01G9/00—Cultivation in receptacles, forcing-frames or greenhouses; Edging for beds, lawn or the like
    • A01G9/02—Receptacles, e.g. flower-pots or boxes; Glasses for cultivating flowers

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  • the invention relates to containers intended to accommodate various vegetables and floral species and containing a water reserve to moisten the body of earth and the roots.
  • the water reserve formed in the lower part, is separated from the body of earth, placed in the upper part of the container, by a retaining grid equipped with a diffusing wall fed by capillary action from the reserve, for example by means of a wick or by wells in the grid containing the earth and penetrating the reserve.
  • the water reserve communicates with the outside either by means of a filling column, or by means of an opening or an overflow line, or by means of the well through which the water level indicator passes, or by means of a ventilating funnel.
  • the subject of the present invention is to supply a container with a water reserve which overcomes this drawback.
  • the bottom and peripheral walls, respectively, of the container are continuous and watertight, therefore without perforations, such that, after putting the body of earth in place on the retaining grid, the water reserve communicates with the outside only through this body of earth, and that the variations in water level generate dynamic and forced aeration of the body of earth in both directions.
  • This up-and-down movement comprises:
  • the viewing window of the container consists of a piece made of translucent plastic which is joined in a sealed manner to the material of the container which surrounds it.
  • the container is overmolded around the translucent plastic piece forming the viewing window.
  • this container 2 consists of a bottom 3 and of a peripheral wall 4 and bears, at some distance from its bottom, projections or lugs 5 for positioning a grid 6 .
  • This grid 6 is equipped with a diffusing wall and provides the separation between a lower water reserve 7 and a volume 8 for the body of earth 9 .
  • the diffusing wall of the grid 6 is in contact with the body of earth 9 and is fed with water by capillary action, for example by means of a wick 10 immersed in the water 12 of the reserve 7 .
  • the bottom 3 and peripheral 4 walls, respectively, of the container have no hole, channel, funnel or column making that part of the container containing the reserve 7 communicate with the outside so that, by virtue of the watertightness of these walls, exchanges with the external air can only be carried out through the body of earth resting on the grid 6 .
  • the peripheral wall 4 of this container is equipped with a viewing window 17 , joined in a sealed manner at 18 , to the edge of the opening in which it is placed.
  • this window consists of a piece made of translucent plastic on which is overmolded the material constituting the pot, and in particular, that of the peripheral wall 4 .
  • a sealed water reserve is independent of the shapes and dimensions of the containers, of the volume allocated to this reserve and of the thickness of the body of earth resting on the retaining grid 6 .

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  • Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Water Supply & Treatment (AREA)
  • Cultivation Receptacles Or Flower-Pots, Or Pots For Seedlings (AREA)
US10/247,610 2001-09-28 2002-09-20 Container for vegetables with a sealed water reserve Abandoned US20030062282A1 (en)

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FR0112797A FR2830168B1 (fr) 2001-09-28 2001-09-28 Bac pour vegetaux avec reserve d'eau etanche
FR0112797 2001-09-28

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US20120151838A1 (en) * 2010-12-06 2012-06-21 Edward Mattson Deep water culture receptacle
EP3718393A1 (fr) * 2019-03-29 2020-10-07 Tuna Boßlet Système modulaire de plantation
US11076541B2 (en) * 2017-07-25 2021-08-03 Equinox Industries Ltd. Self-watering planter with unique wicking devices and soil drainage filtration assembly

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NL1032493C2 (nl) * 2006-09-14 2008-03-17 Johannes Elisabeth Adri Kruijt Plantcontainer onafhankelijk, inbouwbaar, bewateringsapparaat, bewateringssysteem en groeisysteem voor planten.
FR3019647B1 (fr) * 2014-04-08 2017-12-22 Bouillard Indicateur de niveau d'eau pour recipient, notamment pour bac a fleurs a reserve d'eau
CN106134825A (zh) * 2016-08-25 2016-11-23 无锡市东北塘永丰橡塑厂 一种具有排水通风功能的可升降式塑料花盆

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US4996792A (en) * 1988-12-09 1991-03-05 Holtkamp Sr Reinhold Plant watering container
US5596839A (en) * 1995-12-11 1997-01-28 Robert J. Sayfie Modified long term self feeding planter

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US4077159A (en) * 1976-04-07 1978-03-07 Haglund Robert J Horticultural container assembly having false bottom and saucer
FR2632487B1 (fr) * 1988-06-09 1992-03-06 Magnier Georges Jardiniere a element interchangeable et reserve d'eau d'irrigation par capillarite
US6070360A (en) * 1998-11-04 2000-06-06 Liao; Chi-Wei Plant cultivating basin

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US4996792A (en) * 1988-12-09 1991-03-05 Holtkamp Sr Reinhold Plant watering container
US5596839A (en) * 1995-12-11 1997-01-28 Robert J. Sayfie Modified long term self feeding planter

Cited By (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US20120151838A1 (en) * 2010-12-06 2012-06-21 Edward Mattson Deep water culture receptacle
US11076541B2 (en) * 2017-07-25 2021-08-03 Equinox Industries Ltd. Self-watering planter with unique wicking devices and soil drainage filtration assembly
EP3718393A1 (fr) * 2019-03-29 2020-10-07 Tuna Boßlet Système modulaire de plantation

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