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Granted Patent B2
US 11,785,895 · App. 17/309,490 · Granted Oct 17, 2023

Plant carrier

Inventor: Tobias Ragnvid (Strövelstorp, SE)
Assignee: BJÖRKEMAR CONSTRUCTION & CONSULTING BCC AB
A01G9/0295
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,785,895
App. No.
17/309,490
Granted
Oct 17, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A plant propagation cell carrier ( 1 ) having a frame ( 2 ) with plant cell compartments ( 3 ) for receiving a plant cell of fibrous web material, wherein each plant cell compartment has opposing pairs of side walls ( 5, 6; 7, 8 ) forming an essentially open upper end ( 2 A) and a partly open bottom end ( 3 B) of the plant cell compartments ( 3 ), whereby the plant cell compartments consist of a plant cell basket ( 10 ) having side walls each being a continuation of the opposing side walls of the plant cell compartments ( 3 ) and each of the side walls of the plant cell baskets is formed of a number of spaced slender ribs ( 9 ) extending from an upper end ( 3 A) of the plant cell baskets to the bottom end ( 3 B) of the plant cell baskets of the plant cell compartments and whereby completely open areas ( 11, 12 ) are formed in the plant cell baskets, between the adjacent ribs and in corner areas ( 13 ) of the plant cell baskets.

Claims (23)

1. A plant propagation cell carrier, comprising:

a frame defining plant cell compartments for each receiving a plant cell made from fibrous web material, wherein each plant cell compartment has opposing pairs of side walls forming an essentially open upper end and a partly open bottom end of the respective plant cell compartment;

a plant cell basket having side walls each being a continuation of the opposing side walls of the plant cell compartments, with each of the side walls of the plant cell baskets being formed of a number of spaced slender ribs extending from an upper end of the plant cell baskets to the bottom end of the plant cell baskets, and the plant cell baskets being formed with completely open areas between adjacent ribs of the number of spaced slender ribs and in corner areas of the plant cell baskets, thereby providing for contact between the plant cells and ambient air surrounding the cells, and inhibiting a micro climate at the cell; and

spacers extending downwardly past the partly open bottom end of each plant cell basket, thereby securing a distance between said bottom end of each plant cell basket and a ground level plane formed by a lower end surface of each spacer and on which the plant cell baskets are configured to be supported, thereby allowing air to flow under the plant propagation cell carrier, wherein each of the opposing side walls of the plant cell baskets is formed of two spaced slender ribs.

2. The plant propagation cell carrier according to claim 1 , wherein each completely open area formed between the spaced slender ribs and at the corner areas of each plant cell basket extends uninterrupted from the partly open bottom end thereof and up to the essentially open upper end thereof.

3. The plant propagation cell carrier according to claim 2 , wherein the spacers are formed as lower continuations of each of the spaced slender ribs.

4. The plant propagation cell carrier according to claim 3 , wherein the spacers of two adjacent ribs meet and are joined to each other to form an angular combined spacer formation.

5. The plant propagation cell carrier according to claim 3 , wherein the spaced slender ribs have a tapered shape from the essentially open upper end of the plant cell basket and towards the partly open bottom end thereof.

6. The plant propagation cell carrier according to claim 2 , wherein the spacers of two adjacent ribs meet and are joined to each other to form an angular combined spacer formation.

7. The plant propagation cell carrier according to claim 6 , wherein the angular combined spacer formations are each formed at the corner areas of each plant cell basket by the joined spacers of two adjacent ribs positioned on either side of said corner areas.

8. The plant propagation cell carrier according to claim 2 , wherein the spaced slender ribs have a tapered shape from the essentially open upper end of the plant cell basket and towards the partly open bottom end thereof.

9. The plant propagation cell carrier according to claim 1 , wherein the spacers are formed as lower continuations of each of the spaced slender ribs.

10. The plant propagation cell carrier according to claim 9 , wherein the spacers of two adjacent ribs meet and are joined to each other to form an angular combined spacer formation.

11. The plant propagation cell carrier according to claim 10 , wherein the angular combined spacer formations are each formed at the corner areas of each plant cell basket by the joined spacers of two adjacent ribs positioned on either side of said corner areas.

12. The plant propagation cell carrier according to claim 9 , wherein the spaced slender ribs have a tapered shape from the essentially open upper end of the plant cell basket and towards the partly open bottom end thereof.

13. The plant propagation cell carrier according to claim 1 , wherein the spacers of two adjacent ribs meet and are joined to each other to form an angular combined spacer formation.

14. The plant propagation cell carrier according to claim 13 , wherein the partly open bottom end of each plant cell basket is formed by a ring-shaped support that is joined to all of the angular combined spacer formations.

15. The plant propagation cell carrier according to claim 13 , wherein the spaced slender ribs have a tapered shape from the essentially open upper end of the plant cell basket and towards the partly open bottom end thereof.

16. The plant propagation cell carrier according to claim 13 , wherein the angular combined spacer formations are each formed at the corner areas of each plant cell basket by the joined spacers of two adjacent ribs positioned on either side of said corner areas.

17. The plant propagation cell carrier according to claim 1 , wherein angular combined spacer formations are formed at the corner areas of each plant cell basket by the joined spacers of two adjacent ribs positioned on either side of said corner areas.

18. The plant propagation cell carrier according to claim 17 , wherein the spaced slender ribs have a slightly tapered shape from the essentially open upper end of the plant cell basket and towards the partly open bottom end thereof.

19. The plant propagation cell carrier according to claim 1 , wherein the spaced slender ribs have a tapered shape from the essentially open upper end of the plant cell basket and towards the partly open bottom end thereof.

20. The plant propagation cell carrier according to claim 1 , wherein the essentially open upper end of each plant cell basket is joined to an upper rim of the frame extending around an entire perimeter of the plant propagation cell carrier.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 26, 2021
From: RAGNVID, TOBIAS
To: BJÖRKEMAR CONSTRUCTION & CONSULTING BCC AB
Reel/Frame 056976/0556 →
Continuity (1)
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