Classifications

• • 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
  • A01G31/00—Soilless cultivation, e.g. hydroponics
  • A01G31/02—Special apparatus therefor
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Y02P—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS
  • Y02P60/00—Technologies relating to agriculture, livestock or agroalimentary industries
  • Y02P60/20—Reduction of greenhouse gas [GHG] emissions in agriculture, e.g. CO2
  • Y02P60/21—Dinitrogen oxide [N2O], e.g. using aquaponics, hydroponics or efficiency measures

Definitions

• hydroponic cultivation consists of an artificial cultivation procedure, which is normally carried out in shallow cuvettes, to which a fertilizing liquid is provided, with a formulation suitable to the nutrient requirements of the specific type of plant to be cultivated. , so that with proper lighting, which can also be artificial, the proper concentration and proportion of nutrients dissolved in water makes the growth conditions of the plants optimal and, consequently, the productivity in the crop is much higher to that of the classic systems.
• inert materials are used, such as high-grade granule sand, which is sometimes difficult to achieve, which in any case has an important cost and which also establishes a series of limitations for the cultivation facility, depending on its nature and its weight.
• SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) it solves in a fully satisfactory way the above-mentioned problem, since it eliminates the classic need to establish a rooting substrate for plants, based on fat sand or other similar inert matter.
• this procedure consists in establishing a layered layered support, that is to say a support based on several superimposed sheets that, in addition to constituting canalizations of fertilizing liquid, constitute the fixing means for the roots of the plants, when have outdated holes through which labyrinth passages for the roots are produced, so that, as the plant grows and, consequently, its need for stabilization is greater, its roots are successively coupled in the holes of different strata, with which the mechanical fixation is optimal.
• the implementation of this procedure entails the use of a structured device based on a plurality of sheets of different width, intended to form a plurality of overlapping pipes, of indefinite length, provided at their folding edges for support of a pair of wires or parallel rods, fixed at their ends to supports of adequate height to conveniently raise multiple channeling and optimize the working conditions of the operators.
• the different sheets form dihedrals of different angulation, which by their own angulation form superimposed channels, of common mouthpiece, the lower sheet being
• the upper sheet acts exclusively as a physical support for the coupling of the plants, while the intermediate sheets, in addition to participating also in the aforementioned rooting effect, constitute cascading pipes for the fertilizing liquid that, supplied by a tube located within each one of them and provided with multiple exits, goes through all the pipes, cascading from one to the other, irrigating the roots of the plants and allowing oxygenation.
• the bottom sheet or pipe acts as a collector for the residual fertilizer liquid, which is recycled so that its use is integral.
• Figure 3a Finally shows a schematic representation in perspective of the same device.
• a device for hydroponic cultivation in which a top sheet (1), preferably of plastic, as a longitudinal band, of indefinite length, than with the collaboration of a couple has been shown of lateral supports (2) materialized in cables or rods, it configures an obtuse dihedral, a second sheet (3), considerably wider than the previous one, also of a plastic nature, preferably opaque, and which in turn configures an acute dihedral when remaining supported by the same cables or rods (2), and between these extreme sheets (1) and (2), a pair of intermediate sheets (4), also of a dihedral configuration and supported by the same marginal filiform elements (2).
• the number of intermediate sheets (4) can vary depending on the specific requirements of each case, that is, depending on the type of plant to be cultivated.
• a lid (5) sually protects the small plants or seeds with which the
• the upper sheet (1) is provided, in correspondence with its midline, that is to say with the edge of the dihedral configured by it, of a plurality of holes (6), uniformly distributed, in correspondence with the distance provided for the plants to be cultivating, the intermediate sheets (4) are in turn provided, each with the same number of holes (7) as the top sheet (1) but offset longitudinally and in a staggered manner, as can be seen in Figure 2
• the bottom sheet (3) lacks holes.
• feeding tubes (8-8 1 ) are placed for the fertilizing liquid, which simultaneously acts as a thermal transmitting liquid to conveniently control the temperature of the crop.
• the top sheet (1) acts exclusively as a physical support, either with bare roots or with a substrate, for the plant, which is fixed to it when it is fitted in its holes (6) and to protect from light a the first roots, while the intermediate sheets (4) collaborate in said physical support function, since the roots of each plant, as it grows, first reach the holes (7) and then the holes (7 '), and so on in the case that there were a greater number of intermediate sheets (4), so that rooting occurs at different levels and the mechanical fixation of the plant increases as the size of the plant also increases, permanently maintaining stable.
• SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26)
• the set of pipes are assisted by the tube (8) of feeding water with nutrients and temperature control.
• a micro tube or similar, for each irrigation unit leaves the upper area, above the top sheet, to feed it individually, so that the roots of the plants are perfectly bathed in such intermediate pipes, descending the fertilizing liquid, in cascade, thanks to the longitudinal offset between the holes (7) and (7 '), to the lower pipe (3) which, as previously mentioned, acts as a collector of the remaining fertilizer liquid.
• the longitudinal offset of the orifices (6), (7) and (7 ') is oriented in the same direction as the inclination that is provided with the multiple channeling as a whole, so that at the lower end ' (9) of said channeling, that is to say at its exit, a general collector, not shown, is established from where the fertilizer liquid is recycled back to the beginning (10) of the multiple channeling, for an integral use thereof.
• SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) elements will be subject to variation as long as this does not imply an alteration in the essence of the invention.

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