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| 047065000 | DYNAMIC PLANT RECEPTACLE TRANSPORT, APPARATUS OR METHOD | 21 |
| 20090113793 | CAPILLARY-CONTROLLED BUOYANT PLANTER - A buoyant planter and its use. In one embodiment, the invention is a buoyant planter comprising: a nonwoven matrix body comprising fibers; a plurality of buoyant foam units integrated into said nonwoven matrix to produce a buoyant mass, said buoyant foam units being comprised of an expanded, cured polymer resin that envelopes a portion of said fibers to produce foamed zones; and a hydrophilic growth medium that is supported by said nonwoven matrix body. In another embodiment, the invention is a buoyant planter comprising: a nonwoven matrix body comprising fibers; a plurality of substantially vertical capillary channels within said nonwoven matrix body, each of said substantially vertical capillary channels having an upper end; and a grass sod disposed on said nonwoven matrix body and in communication with said upper ends. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090158651 | SYSTEM FOR GROWING VEGETATION ON AN OPEN BODY OF WATER - A method for restoring aquatic marsh vegetation in situ on an open body of water, including the steps of (A) floating on the body of water at least one buoyant system which comprises at least one flotation apparatus connected to a matrix, sized and configured to support the vegetation, and water-contacting means for raising and lowering the matrix relative to the surface of the water, (B) suspending marsh vegetation within the matrix, and (C) periodically and repetitively raising and lowering the matrix relative to the surface of the water by action of the water-contacting means so that a varying level of water is provided to at least a portion of a root region of the vegetation. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090165373 | Rotary plant growing apparatus - A rotary plant growing apparatus has a cylindrical structure rotatably mounted on a support base. The cylindrical structure consists of a plurality of baskets in which plants may be grown and rotates around a rotational axis such that the baskets are at least partially immersed in nutrient reservoir containing a liquid nutrient for nourishing the plants. A light source extending at least partially through the cylindrical structure provides light for growth of plants. The baskets are securely and removably attached to rims of the cylindrical structures by pins extending therefrom and which have heads which retaining the pins in apertures therefore on the rims. A motor and gear arrangement provides rotation of the cylindrical structure. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090255177 | RENEWABLY BUOYANT, SELF-PROTECTIVE FLOATING HABITAT - A floating habitat designed to be renewably buoyant, self-sustaining and optionally specialized for waterfowl nesting. The first embodiment comprises one or more flotation units, a source of compressed air, and a means for connecting the source of compressed air to the flotation units. Each flotation unit comprises an individual supply hose, an inflatable bladder, a relief valve, a diffusing manifold, bottom mesh, top mesh, and buoyant growth medium. An alternative embodiment comprises a self-compensating buoyancy system. In the waterfowl nesting embodiment, the floating habitat includes one or more waterfowl nesting structures and construction material selected to optimize the nesting habitat. The floating habitat can be comprised of scrap pieces or layers of polyester mesh material. The floating habitats can be combined to provide safe habitat for juvenile waterfowl, encourage colony nesting, or allow a variety of waterfowl or shore bird species to enjoy suitable habitat on the same floating habitat. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090320363 | Self-contained apparatuses for hanging, holding, rotating, or watering plants using solar power for plant maintenance - Plant supporting apparatuses designed to hang a planter and plant at a variety of desired locations without lines for external electrical or water supply. Power is provided by solar cells. This construction allows the placement of plants almost anywhere and provides desired routine maintenance automatically. The apparatuses rotate the plant to grow uniformly even though incident light is non-uniform. There are two main assemblies which rotate relative to each other. A pump transfers liquids from a reservoir to a dispensing outlet onto a planter. The pump may be configured to move within the reservoir to stir the water, fertilizer or other liquids being fed to the planter. A planter is also shown which has solar cells and other parts mounted thereon. A control system is used to control operation and ambient light and reservoir liquid level are sensed. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100263276 | System For Growing Vegetation On An Open Body of Water - A method for restoring aquatic marsh vegetation in situ on an open body of water, including the steps of (A) floating on the body of water at least one buoyant system which comprises at least one flotation apparatus connected to a matrix, sized and configured to support the vegetation, and water-contacting means for raising and lowering the matrix relative to the surface of the water, (B) suspending marsh vegetation within the matrix, and (C) periodically and repetitively raising and lowering the matrix relative to the surface of the water by action of the water-contacting means so that a varying level of water is provided to at least a portion of a root region of the vegetation. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100269407 | CONTINUOUS LOOP PLANT GROWING SYSTEM - A continuous loop plant growing system includes a channel having a moving floor, a growing medium contained in the channel, at least one plant, at least one light, and at least one chopper. The moving floor transports the growing medium around a continuous loop dividable into a planting zone, a growing zone, a harvesting zone, and a decomposing zone. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20110120002 | Modular Vertical Farm Cell - A continuous-loop conveyor, towering upon vertical framework, which allows potted perennial plants and other plants to be transported throughout all stages of maturity in a manner which substantially multiplies yield per acre, allows production to proceed in both natural and artificial light, allows production and harvesting to be automated, and allows production to proceed in conditions which are favorable to plants but unfavorable to humans. The entire apparatus can be constructed of lightweight, cost-effective materials, which afford mass-production and mass-array into vast automatic growing operations. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110131876 | Combined Vertical Farm, Biofuel, Biomass, and Electric Power Generation Process and Facility - Methods and associated apparatus for automatically growing agricultural crops vertically and/or in a continuous fashion throughout each year (Vertical Farm) in combination with contiguous and co-located production of biofuel, food, biomass for the purpose of carbon sequestering (carbon credits), and biomass electric power generation. A process that incorporates vast arrays of continuous-loop conveyors, towering upon vertical framework, which allow potted plants to be transported throughout all stages of maturity in a manner which substantially multiplies yield per acre, allows production to proceed in both natural and artificial light, allows production and harvesting to be automated, and allows production to proceed in conditions which are highly favorable to plants but unfavorable to humans. The entire apparatus can be constructed of lightweight, cost-effective materials which afford mass-production and mass-array into vast automatic growing operations. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110167721 | METHOD FOR IMPROVED PLANT BREEDING - The invention relates generally to an improved plant breeding system. More particularly, this invention relates to a method for automated, high throughput analysis of plant phenotype and plant genotype in a breeding program. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20120060414 | CONVEYING SYSTEM, TOWER STRUCTURE WITH CONVEYING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONVEYING CONTAINERS WITH A CONVEYING SYSTEM - The invention relates to a conveying system for moving containers ( | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120124904 | PLANT GROWING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A plant-growing apparatus has a plurality of rotatable plant-growing modules which can be moved between two positions, separated vertically or horizontally. Each module comprises a cylindrical structure for holding plant-growing containers in which the plants grow radially inwardly of the cylindrical structure toward a light source. The apparatus has module support means for supporting each module and rotating it in a substantially horizontal position. The apparatus has module moving means, for example sprocket driven chains, for conveying the modules between the two positions. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120137578 | APPARATUS FOR GROWING PLANTS - An apparatus ( | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120144739 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STERILIZATION OF THE SOIL FOR GROWING KOREAN GINSENG BY USING AN ELECTRON BEAM AND SYSTEM OF GROWING KOREAN GINSENG USING AN ELECTRON BEAM STERILIZATION - The present invention relates to a method and system for sterilizing the soil for growing Korean ginseng by using an electron beam, which eliminates fungi harmful to ginseng's growth and development, and also relates to a system including: a conveyor which transfers the soil for growing Korean ginseng; a soil supplier which loads a predetermined amount of soil onto the conveyor to a predetermined height; an electron beam irradiator which applies electron beam to the soil for growing Korean ginseng being transferred by the conveyor to eliminate fungi contained in the soil for growing | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120186154 | Automaton for Plant Phenotyping - The invention relates to an automaton useful in cultivating or phenotyping a plurality of plants in a controlled environment, including a plate on which a plurality of movable cultivation substrate holders is placed, said movable holders being capable of consecutively taking every possible position on the surface of said plate. The invention also relates to a facility useful in cultivating or phenotyping a plurality of plants in a controlled environment, particularly including said automaton, and further to a method useful in cultivating or phenotyping a plurality of plants in a controlled environment. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120260569 | AUTOMATED GRAVIMETRIC SCREENING PLATFORM SYSTEM AND METHOD - An automated gravimetric screening system and method controls soil moisture in a plurality of potted plants to perform water deficit experiments in a greenhouse using a stationary support platform and pot design that maintains the plants in a static location during the testing. By weighing and re-watering the pots from beneath the platform, the present system and method permits an upper gantry to capture high resolution images, temperature data, or other sensor data to quantify the plant stress level or plant canopy characteristics during the experiment. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20130180172 | Rotating Plant Containing Module With Self-Contained Irrigation System - A multi-sided, rotating plant holder, including a hollow shell structure. Orifices are positioned along at least one side of that shell structure for accessing and replacing plants within that shell structure. The plants positioned in the hollow shell structure may include plugs for ease of placement and replacement in and out of the orifices. A growth medium contained within that shell structure secures the plants within the plant holder, and holds water and nutrients for absorption by the plants. The plant holder includes an upper base element that is rotatable upon a lower base element to allow for rotation to sunlight or artificial light. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20160044871 | PLANT CULTIVATION METHOD - To provide a technique whereby, in cultivating a crop, factors relating to differentiation into flower buds and leaf buds, sprouting, flowering, and fruiting, growth of young shoots, etc., are regulated. For example, the invention addresses the problem of regulating the growth of a crop so that the leaf buds sprout in tandem and with the sprouting of flower buds and flowering and fruiting are repeated under fresh foliage. [Solution] A plant cultivation method which comprises environmentally stimulating a plant to regulate differentiation into flower buds and/or differentiation into leaf buds. In a typical embodiment, the plant is help in an environment at a temperature of 16-40° C. at a photoperiod of 8-12 hours immediately after harvesting fruits. As another environmental stimulus, the plant is held in, for example, an environment at a temperature of 3-7° C. As still another environmental stimulus, the plant is held in, for example, an environment at a temperature of 16-23° C. at a photoperiod of 8-11 hours. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160120136 | SUN TRACKING GROWING SYSTEM FOR PHOTOSYNTHETIC ORGANISMS - A sun tracking plant growing system includes a body having a first face, a second face opposed to the first face and a peripheral connecting edge which is relatively small, as compared to the size of the first face and the second face. A mounting enables the body to pivot about a pivot axis. Plant supports, which receive plants, are supported by the body. A sun tracking mechanism is provided which senses or calculates the position of the sun and adjusts the orientation of the body about the pivot axis to maintain a selected portion of the peripheral connecting edge of the body facing the sun so as to provide desirable and naturally attenuated sunlight exposure according to plants' needs on both faces throughout a day. This system allows that multiple rows or single row of the plural bodies are arrayed closely together without creating shadows to each other. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160135384 | SPROUTED SEED GRAIN GROWING AND HARVESTING APPARATUS - An apparatus for growing and harvesting a tangled mass composed of sprouted seed grain, including a plurality of overlying movable (relative to the frame), substantially planar surfaces having a length, each surface movable (relative to the frame) between a first position and a second position, each surface configured to receive a layer of seed grain that is permitted to grow for a predetermined period of time on each surface in the first position, the layer of seed grain becoming a continuous tangled mass of sprouted seed grain. After the predetermined period of time, a surface of the plurality of surfaces is moved to the second position, such that the mass associated with the moved surface is at least substantially removable from the moved surface due to gravity. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160165810 | CULTIVATION SYSTEM | 06-16-2016 |
