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US3557489A
US3557489A US871692A US87169269A US3557489A US 3557489 A US3557489 A US 3557489A US 871692 A US871692 A US 871692A US 87169269 A US87169269 A US 87169269A US 3557489 A US3557489 A US 3557489A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C66/00—General aspects of processes or apparatus for joining preformed parts
    • B29C66/80—General aspects of machine operations or constructions and parts thereof
    • B29C66/83—General aspects of machine operations or constructions and parts thereof characterised by the movement of the joining or pressing tools
    • B29C66/834—General aspects of machine operations or constructions and parts thereof characterised by the movement of the joining or pressing tools moving with the parts to be joined
    • B29C66/8341—Roller, cylinder or drum types; Band or belt types; Ball types
    • B29C66/83411—Roller, cylinder or drum types
    • B29C66/83413—Roller, cylinder or drum types cooperating rollers, cylinders or drums
    • 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
    • A01G24/00—Growth substrates; Culture media; Apparatus or methods therefor
    • A01G24/60—Apparatus for preparing growth substrates or culture media
    • 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
    • A01G9/029—Receptacles for seedlings
    • A01G9/0295—Units comprising two or more connected receptacles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C53/00—Shaping by bending, folding, twisting, straightening or flattening; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C53/02—Bending or folding
    • B29C53/04—Bending or folding of plates or sheets
    • B29C53/06—Forming folding lines by pressing or scoring
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C65/00—Joining or sealing of preformed parts, e.g. welding of plastics materials; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C65/56—Joining or sealing of preformed parts, e.g. welding of plastics materials; Apparatus therefor using mechanical means or mechanical connections, e.g. form-fits
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C66/00—General aspects of processes or apparatus for joining preformed parts
    • B29C66/01—General aspects dealing with the joint area or with the area to be joined
    • B29C66/05—Particular design of joint configurations
    • B29C66/10—Particular design of joint configurations particular design of the joint cross-sections
    • B29C66/13—Single flanged joints; Fin-type joints; Single hem joints; Edge joints; Interpenetrating fingered joints; Other specific particular designs of joint cross-sections not provided for in groups B29C66/11 - B29C66/12
    • B29C66/131—Single flanged joints, i.e. one of the parts to be joined being rigid and flanged in the joint area
    • B29C66/1312—Single flange to flange joints, the parts to be joined being rigid
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C66/00—General aspects of processes or apparatus for joining preformed parts
    • B29C66/40—General aspects of joining substantially flat articles, e.g. plates, sheets or web-like materials; Making flat seams in tubular or hollow articles; Joining single elements to substantially flat surfaces
    • B29C66/41—Joining substantially flat articles ; Making flat seams in tubular or hollow articles
    • B29C66/43—Joining a relatively small portion of the surface of said articles
    • B29C66/438—Joining sheets for making hollow-walled, channelled structures or multi-tubular articles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C37/00—Component parts, details, accessories or auxiliary operations, not covered by group B29C33/00 or B29C35/00
    • B29C37/0053—Moulding articles characterised by the shape of the surface, e.g. ribs, high polish
    • B29C37/0057—Moulding single grooves or ribs, e.g. tear lines
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C65/00—Joining or sealing of preformed parts, e.g. welding of plastics materials; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C65/56—Joining or sealing of preformed parts, e.g. welding of plastics materials; Apparatus therefor using mechanical means or mechanical connections, e.g. form-fits
    • B29C65/567—Joining or sealing of preformed parts, e.g. welding of plastics materials; Apparatus therefor using mechanical means or mechanical connections, e.g. form-fits using a tamping or a swaging operation, i.e. at least partially deforming the edge or the rim of a first part to be joined to clamp a second part to be joined
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C65/00—Joining or sealing of preformed parts, e.g. welding of plastics materials; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C65/56—Joining or sealing of preformed parts, e.g. welding of plastics materials; Apparatus therefor using mechanical means or mechanical connections, e.g. form-fits
    • B29C65/58—Snap connection
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C66/00—General aspects of processes or apparatus for joining preformed parts
    • B29C66/50—General aspects of joining tubular articles; General aspects of joining long products, i.e. bars or profiled elements; General aspects of joining single elements to tubular articles, hollow articles or bars; General aspects of joining several hollow-preforms to form hollow or tubular articles
    • B29C66/51—Joining tubular articles, profiled elements or bars; Joining single elements to tubular articles, hollow articles or bars; Joining several hollow-preforms to form hollow or tubular articles
    • B29C66/54—Joining several hollow-preforms, e.g. half-shells, to form hollow articles, e.g. for making balls, containers; Joining several hollow-preforms, e.g. half-cylinders, to form tubular articles
    • B29C66/549—Joining several hollow-preforms, e.g. half-shells, to form hollow articles, e.g. for making balls, containers; Joining several hollow-preforms, e.g. half-cylinders, to form tubular articles said hollow-preforms being interconnected during their moulding process, e.g. by a hinge

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  • the purpose of the invention is to provide a container for cultivation, consisting of two parts connected together by a hinge and kept closed, after being bent, by lateral securing devices.
  • These parallelopipedal buckets of regular polygonal cross section can be stacked empty and enable their use for cultivation purposes and their handling to be fully mechanized.
  • FIG. 1 shows the shaping sheet of which the purpose is to produce symmetrical profiled parts constituting the container
  • FIG. 2 represents the shaping of the symmetrical surfaces
  • FIG. 3 illustrates the process of assembling the strips
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 are an elevation of the bucket and a diagram of its base
  • FIG. 6 shows one possible application of the device.
  • the sheet of synthetic material 1, in FIG. 1, is shaped on two symmetrical faces 2 and 3, where, by a moulding process, a series of profiles arranged connecting-fashion, 4, 5, 6 and 7, are obtained, which can be fitted into one another.
  • a series of shapes of polygonal cross section, 8, 8' are also formed, their bases 9 and 10 being closed and their peripheral portion open. These shaped parts are separated by a central folding line 13, forming a hinge 14.
  • the polygonal half-containers 8, 8, in FIG. 2 are brought together in order to cause the profiled locking devices 4, 5, 6 and 7 (FIGS.
  • the pot or bucket of regular polygonal shape, eliminates the use of frustum-shaped containers such as hitherto adopted for facilitating unpotting and stacking operations. These containers suffered from the drawback of preventing the system of roots from developing, and the most important part of the compost, situated in the upper portion, was rendered unusable.
  • the bucket to which the invention relates can be manufactured in a simple manner, by shaping it from an open sheet provided with symmetrical imprints of which the jointing determines the effective capacity.
  • the symmetrical parts. are assembled around the hinge and are brought together until the dovetail locking devices 4, 5, 6 and 7 engage.
  • the respective shaped sections assembled by their perforated 'base enables the plants in the container to fed with water.
  • the strips can be either separate or used continuously on machines as shown in FIG. 6, thus separating the strips 20 in order to release the lumps 21.
  • These strips produce series of buckets at certain intervals, with functional shapes which facilitate the mechanization of the filling, cultivation, unpotting and transport processes.
  • the bending operation can be effected in such a way as to obtain strips as shown in FIG. 3, or else they can be separated, with or Without subdivision, by the combination of the drums 22, 23, 24, 25.
  • the shape of the bucket can be replaced by a shape extensible by folding longitudinally, Concertina-wise or in any other manner, and may comprise, in a transversal or oblique plane, grooves or spirals for the internal peripheral orientation of the roots, decelerating their growth.
  • the invention may be summarised as follows, continuous manufacturing process for mechanized containers for cultivation, and industrial product thereby obtained.
  • Sheets of a synthetic material formed by moulding and providing series of separate symmetrical shaped parts interconnected by their lower portions, forming hinges.
  • a bucket which can be detached for individual use, or buckets interconnected by parts of strips and thus easy to handle.
  • Cultivation containers constituted by a parallel-sided strip of synthetic resinous plastics material in which there are formed at intervals along the length of the strip a plurality of transversely positioned troughs extending substantially from one longitudinal edge of the strip to the other longitudinal edge thereof, said strip including in corresponding positions adjacent to each of its longitudinal edges a plurality of locking tenons, said strip being folded 4 once symmetrically about a longitudinal centre line such References Cited that the troughs of one portion of the folded strip overlie the troughs ofthe other portion of the folded strip to de- UNITED STATES PATENTS fine a plurality of containers, and the tenons of the one 2,961,123 11/1960 Boydak et a1 220-102 portion are locked with the tenons of the other portion, that area of the strip which lies along the folding line within the confines of the troughs being perforated.
  • U S Cl X R 2. Cultivation containers, as claimed in claim 1, wherein each container is of regular

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US3739522A (en) * 1971-07-22 1973-06-19 G Greenbaum Horticultural cell system and method of manufacture
US3834609A (en) * 1972-07-20 1974-09-10 Dolco Packaging Corp Container assembly having compartments and means for stacking container blank
US3889416A (en) * 1973-12-10 1975-06-17 Duncan G Bergeron Seedling tree growing apparatus
US3986299A (en) * 1975-02-10 1976-10-19 Summit Plastic Corporation Planter
US3992810A (en) * 1974-06-05 1976-11-23 Lakeland Enterprises, Inc. Seedling tray
US4006558A (en) * 1975-09-11 1977-02-08 Native Plants, Inc. Seedling plant propagation container
US4050188A (en) * 1976-03-01 1977-09-27 Wingerden Aart Van Seedling growing container
US4057932A (en) * 1975-01-06 1977-11-15 Henry Anderson Spencer Container for seedlings
US4077515A (en) * 1976-10-06 1978-03-07 Dell Shoberg Medical slide case with hinged molded sections
US4159597A (en) * 1977-02-28 1979-07-03 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Planting system including articles of manufacture
EP0005354A1 (en) * 1978-04-27 1979-11-14 Geoffrey Allan Williames Seedling transplanting machine
EP0010824A1 (en) * 1978-10-27 1980-05-14 Geoffrey Allan Williames Seed and plant propagation apparatus
US4216621A (en) * 1977-02-28 1980-08-12 Illinois Tool Works, Inc. Planting system including articles of manufacture
US4231186A (en) * 1976-06-09 1980-11-04 Lannen Tehtaat Oy Group of pots for nursing and replanting plants
US4234092A (en) * 1978-04-17 1980-11-18 Edwin Axel Container
WO1983000296A1 (en) * 1981-07-20 1983-02-03 American Hospital Supply Corp Cuvette system for automated chemical analyzer
US4453344A (en) * 1981-07-01 1984-06-12 Wingerden Aart Van Seedling propagating container and method
USRE32808E (en) * 1981-07-01 1988-12-27 Plant propagating container and method
US4813178A (en) * 1986-01-10 1989-03-21 Claude Ferrand Tubular element for cultivating plants
US4863693A (en) * 1984-08-21 1989-09-05 E. I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company Analysis instrument having a blow molded reaction chamber
US6357172B1 (en) * 1997-06-10 2002-03-19 Teel Plastics, Inc. Plant protector
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JPS51145530U (nl) * 1975-05-16 1976-11-22
JPS604389Y2 (ja) * 1975-09-19 1985-02-07 株式会社白山製作所 集合保安器収容箱
GB2234416B (en) * 1989-08-05 1994-02-23 Henry Anderson Spencer Book-type container for raising seedlings having continuous shiplap joint.
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US3739522A (en) * 1971-07-22 1973-06-19 G Greenbaum Horticultural cell system and method of manufacture
US3834609A (en) * 1972-07-20 1974-09-10 Dolco Packaging Corp Container assembly having compartments and means for stacking container blank
US3889416A (en) * 1973-12-10 1975-06-17 Duncan G Bergeron Seedling tree growing apparatus
US3992810A (en) * 1974-06-05 1976-11-23 Lakeland Enterprises, Inc. Seedling tray
US4057932A (en) * 1975-01-06 1977-11-15 Henry Anderson Spencer Container for seedlings
US3986299A (en) * 1975-02-10 1976-10-19 Summit Plastic Corporation Planter
US4006558A (en) * 1975-09-11 1977-02-08 Native Plants, Inc. Seedling plant propagation container
US4050188A (en) * 1976-03-01 1977-09-27 Wingerden Aart Van Seedling growing container
US4231186A (en) * 1976-06-09 1980-11-04 Lannen Tehtaat Oy Group of pots for nursing and replanting plants
US4077515A (en) * 1976-10-06 1978-03-07 Dell Shoberg Medical slide case with hinged molded sections
US4159597A (en) * 1977-02-28 1979-07-03 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Planting system including articles of manufacture
US4216621A (en) * 1977-02-28 1980-08-12 Illinois Tool Works, Inc. Planting system including articles of manufacture
US4234092A (en) * 1978-04-17 1980-11-18 Edwin Axel Container
EP0005354A1 (en) * 1978-04-27 1979-11-14 Geoffrey Allan Williames Seedling transplanting machine
EP0010824A1 (en) * 1978-10-27 1980-05-14 Geoffrey Allan Williames Seed and plant propagation apparatus
US4453344A (en) * 1981-07-01 1984-06-12 Wingerden Aart Van Seedling propagating container and method
USRE32808E (en) * 1981-07-01 1988-12-27 Plant propagating container and method
WO1983000296A1 (en) * 1981-07-20 1983-02-03 American Hospital Supply Corp Cuvette system for automated chemical analyzer
JPS58501142A (ja) * 1981-07-20 1983-07-14 バツクスター　トラベノル　ラボラトリーズ　インコーポレーテツド 自動化された化学分析装置に使用される胞室システム
US4863693A (en) * 1984-08-21 1989-09-05 E. I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company Analysis instrument having a blow molded reaction chamber
US4813178A (en) * 1986-01-10 1989-03-21 Claude Ferrand Tubular element for cultivating plants
US6357172B1 (en) * 1997-06-10 2002-03-19 Teel Plastics, Inc. Plant protector
US7367454B1 (en) * 2003-05-30 2008-05-06 Back Alan W Insert for retaining vials in a case

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MC661A1 (fr) 1968-04-01
BE700326A (nl) 1967-12-01
LU54017A1 (nl) 1967-09-05
AT286021B (de) 1970-11-25
FR1486634A (fr) 1967-06-30
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