WO2002030176A1 - Suspended spool, in particular for cultivated plants - Google Patents
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- WO2002030176A1 WO2002030176A1 PCT/FR2001/003084 FR0103084W WO0230176A1 WO 2002030176 A1 WO2002030176 A1 WO 2002030176A1 FR 0103084 W FR0103084 W FR 0103084W WO 0230176 A1 WO0230176 A1 WO 0230176A1
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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
- A01G9/00—Cultivation in receptacles, forcing-frames or greenhouses; Edging for beds, lawn or the like
- A01G9/12—Supports for plants; Trellis for strawberries or the like
- A01G9/126—Wirespool supports
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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
- A01G9/00—Cultivation in receptacles, forcing-frames or greenhouses; Edging for beds, lawn or the like
- A01G9/12—Supports for plants; Trellis for strawberries or the like
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- the present invention relates to a hanging dispenser, in particular for crops.
- Some crops involve hanging plants from a wire to allow easy growth and harvest of fruits or vegetables. This is particularly the case with the cultivation of tomatoes, cucumbers, melons or green beans.
- Figure 1 schematically illustrates an installation for the cultivation of tomatoes and three tomato plants at different stages of growth.
- the installation 1 comprises rows of piles 2 about three meters high and suspension cables 3 connected to the upper parts of the piles 2. On these cables 3 are hung reels 4 containing the suspension wires 5 of the tomato plants 6. Each reel 4 comprises a support 10 allowing it to be hooked, with the possibility of sliding, on a cable 3, a reserve of wire 5 and means 11 making it possible to block the unwinding of the wire 5.
- the stem of a plant is located substantially vertically from the roots of this plant, as is the case of the plant located furthest to the left in Figure 1; as this growth progresses, the base of the stem, on which the fruits or vegetables have been harvested, is oriented in a horizontal direction, as is the case with the central plant and the plant on the right shown in the figure 1. It is therefore necessary periodically, approximately every fortnight, to slide each reel 4 and to unwind a portion of wire 5 so that the vertical part of the rod is always directly above reel 4.
- a known reel comprises a reel with a horizontal axis, on which is wound a wire for suspending the plant.
- This coil can be moved in the support, perpendicular to its axis, between a position for blocking the pivoting of the coil and a position for unlocking this pivoting.
- the length of wire that can be unwound is thus adjustable at will but the gesture necessary to lift the spool, and therefore the plant, is tiring in the long run.
- the support and coil structures are relatively complex, and the assembly of this support and this coil appears relatively difficult to achieve, which is not without impact on the cost price of a reel.
- Another known reel comprises a metal wire support comprising a wire reserve coil.
- This coil has a horizontal axis and comprises, at one of its flanges, a lug projecting radially.
- the support forms a transverse bar against which this lug abuts, in an undeformed state of this support, which has the effect of blocking the rotation of the coil.
- the support can be grasped manually and be deformed in order to erase said strip and thus free the rotation of the spool for the unwinding of a portion of wire.
- This reel has the disadvantage of having a relatively high cost price taking into account the relative complexity of the support structure, which implies for its manufacture the use of a specialized folding machine.
- an interchange of the spool is necessary when the wire has been completely consumed, which involves tedious handling, especially since the capacity of the reels is limited by the width of the supports.
- these reels do not allow very easy control of the reeling, and that the conformation of the suspension hooks of these reels does not allow easy crossing of a pile, which constitutes a certain constraint.
- This reel is molded in one piece and includes a hanging hook, an upper flange connected to the base of the hook, a drum connected to the underside of the upper flange and a lower flange connected to the drum, this lower flange comprising a lug.
- the flanges and the drum form a reserve which can contain a winding of wire.
- This reel has the significant drawback of being tiring and relatively long to handle. Indeed, the unwinding of the wire involves performing repeated movements of the wrist to unwind the wire while erasing the lug for each turn of wire to be unwound.
- the present invention aims to remedy the drawbacks of existing reels.
- Other objectives of the invention are to provide a reel allowing an easy interchange of the reel when the wire is completely consumed, an easy control of the unwinding of the wire and an easy crossing of a pile for supporting a suspension cable. .
- the reel concerned comprises, in a manner known per se, a support and a reserve of suspension wire, this reserve being delimited by a flange situated in the interior part when the reel is suspended; this flange has a lug projecting radially outwards, dimensioned so that the suspension wire passes over it when the reel is suspended and that this wire is connected to an object such as a cultivated plant, which it allows to suspend.
- said wire reserve consists of a spool (1 1) rotatably mounted on the support (10), this spool (1 1) being arranged so that its axis is substantially vertical when the reel (4) is suspended, and comprising said flange.
- the lug thus allows the two portions of the wire lying immediately before it and immediately after it to form a large angle in them, of the order of 90 °.
- the force undergone by the wire, resulting from the suspension of the object connected to the wire, is thus exerted, downstream of the lug, in a direction substantially parallel to the axis of the coil, which has the effect not only to retain the wire on the lug but also to block the rotation of the spool.
- the unwinding of a portion of wire is thus made possible simply by tilting the reel so as to make the wire escape from around the lug and thus to erase the lug from the wire unwinding path.
- the handling of the reel according to the invention is thus very easy, and this reel can have a structure as simple as possible.
- the invention it suffices to tilt the reel to obtain the wire reeling then to return the reel to its original position to immediately stop this reeling; the possibility of rotation of the spool relative to the support ensures good retention of the wire against the lug, even when this lug has relatively small dimensions.
- the capacity of the reel of the reel according to the invention is not limited by the width of the support, so that this reel can have a capacity very much greater than the capacity of the reels of existing reels. Coil interchange operations are thus less frequent than with existing reels and are generally facilitated by the structure of the reel according to the invention.
- the reel can have a single lug, in which case the reeling increment corresponds to the circumference of the drum of this reel.
- the latter can also include at least one more lug, the different lugs being distributed regularly over the circumference of the coil, in order to reduce this increment.
- the coil has a vertical extension, integral with it in rotation, in particular forming a body with it.
- This extension allows the pressing of the fingers of one hand against it during the rotation of the spool, and therefore the easy exercise of friction making it possible to control the speed of unwinding of the thread.
- This extension also makes it possible to exert a blocking of the rotation of the reel when the reel is inclined, in particular at the time of the passage of a pile, which also facilitates this operation of passing a pile.
- the support is produced in the form of a closed loop, having an upper branch, two lateral branches, one of which is straight and forms the pivot of the coil, and a lower branch which connects these two lateral branches; the loop is shaped so that its ends are, on the one hand, at the upper end of said straight branch forming the pivot of the coil and, on the other hand, at the end of said upper branch facing this straight branch.
- the positioning of the coil on the support is thus achieved by simple engagement of the coil on said straight branch, until the coil rests against said lower branch.
- the interchange of a coil after consumption of the wire is particularly simple and quick to carry out.
- this support is produced by bending a metal wire.
- the upper branch may then include an inverted "V" loop forming the suspension zone of the reel.
- the wire used advantageously has an elasticity, and the upper branch forms a housing for receiving the straight branch, with slight elastic stress on the support, this constraint being such that this straight branch normally remains engaged, by elastic return, in said housing.
- the support thus has a general "carabiner" shape.
- This support can be carried out in a particularly simple manner for attaching or detaching the reel, by gripping the latter and applying pressure against the straight branch so as to extract it from said housing. This characteristic also contributes to making the handling of the reel very easy.
- the support formed by a metal wire does not require complex bending of this wire and therefore remains simple to manufacture, without requiring a special machine.
- the invention is again described below with reference to the appended schematic drawing representing, by way of non-limiting example, a preferred embodiment of the hanging reel it relates to.
- Figure 2 is a perspective view, while suspended from a cable 3;
- Figure 3 is a view of the coil it comprises, along the axis of this coil,
- Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 3 of a coil which it can comprise according to a variant, and
- Figure 5 is a view of the reel as it is gripped by a hand.
- FIGS. 2 to 5 show a reel 4 as shown in FIG. 1, which comprises a support 10 and a spool 11 of the wire reserve 5.
- the support 10 is made by bending a metal wire having an elasticity, in particular a steel wire of current quality. It is produced in the form of a closed loop, having an upper branch 1 5, two lateral branches 1 6, 1 7 of which one, referenced 1 6, is rectilinear and forms the pivot axis of the coil 1 1, and a lower branch 1 8 which connects these two lateral branches 1 6, 1 7.
- This loop is shaped so that its ends are, on the one hand, at the end of the branch 1 5 facing the branch 1 6 and, on the other hand, at the upper end of the branch 1 6.
- the branch 1 5 comprises a loop 20 in inverted "V", forming the suspension zone of the reel 4, and its free end is bent on the side of the branch 1 6, so as to form a housing 21 for receiving this branch 1 6.
- the lateral branches 1 6, 1 7 are rectilinear.
- the branch 1 6 receives the coil 1 1, of which it forms the pivot.
- the support 10 is generally shaped so that the branch 1 6 is received in the housing 21 with elastic deformation of the support 1 0, this deformation tending to maintain this branch 1 6 in this housing 21.
- the support 10 thus has a carabiner structure, allowing a grip of the reel 4 and a release of the branch 1 6 out of the housing 21 by action of the fingers of one hand, in a similar manner to the action of a hand on a carabiner.
- the coil 1 1 is pivotally engaged on the branch 1 6, so that its axis is substantially vertical when the reel 4 is suspended from the cable 3.
- tubular extension 25 at its axial end, which is coaxial with it and which forms a body with it, and on the side opposite this extension 25, a cheek 26 having a lug 27 projecting radially outwards, as well as a tubular extension 28 coaxial with the tubular extension 25.
- the extension 25 is located in the upper part when the reel 4 is suspended, the cheek 26 and the lug 27 being therefore located in the lower part.
- the unwinding of a portion of wire 5 is made possible simply by grasping the reel 4 and tilting it so as to cause the wire 5 to escape from around the lug 27 and thus to erase this lug from the reeling path of This thread.
- Grasping the reel 4 causes at least two fingers of one hand other than the thumb to engage around the extension 25, as shown in FIG. 5, which allows the easy exercise of friction on this extension to control the wire feed speed 5.
- FIGS. 3 and 4 show that the spool can comprise a single lug 27 or two lugs 27, or even more, distributed regularly over its circumference, in order to reduce the increment of unwinding of the wire 5.
- the invention provides a hanging dispenser which overcomes the drawbacks of homologous dispensers of the prior art, in the sense that it perfectly fulfills its functions while remaining simple and easy to manufacture and assemble, and in that it allows an easy interchange of the reel when the wire is completely consumed, an easy control of the unwinding of the wire and an easy crossing of a support pile a suspension cable.
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AU2001293961A AU2001293961A1 (en) | 2000-10-13 | 2001-10-05 | Suspended spool, in particular for cultivated plants |
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FR0013177A FR2815332B1 (en) | 2000-10-13 | 2000-10-13 | SUSPENDED FEEDER, ESPECIALLY FOR CROPS |
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NL8702174A (en) * | 1987-09-11 | 1989-04-03 | Bernard Peter Van Der Weijden | Tomato plant suspension spool - has round plate with protruding point supporting string |
FR2743258A1 (en) * | 1996-01-09 | 1997-07-11 | Filpack | Mobile adjustable staking system for climbing plants |
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GB2035957A (en) * | 1978-11-17 | 1980-06-25 | Ryan D | Improvements in and relating to devices for supporting growing plants |
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FR2743258A1 (en) * | 1996-01-09 | 1997-07-11 | Filpack | Mobile adjustable staking system for climbing plants |
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FR2870669A1 (en) * | 2004-06-01 | 2005-12-02 | Gilles Bruno Debat | Tomato plant staking device, has reel with rigid body delimiting winding zone that freely unwinds free end section of stacking twine, when reel is positioned such that winding axis is inclined with respect to horizontal level |
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