IP Library Granted Patent US 12,193,376
Granted Patent B2
US 12,193,376 · App. 18/020,469 · Granted Jan 14, 2025

Greenable wall element

Inventor: Klaus Wegenast (Freiburg, DE)
A01G9/025E04B1/80
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Patent No.
US 12,193,376
App. No.
18/020,469
Granted
Jan 14, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A greenable wall element with at least one wall component oriented in the vertical direction or in the diagonal direction. The wall component delimits a cavity of the wall element is fillable with planting substrate, and has a multiplicity of plant openings through which plants rooting in the plant substrate can grow onto the side of the wall element directed away from the plant substrate. The at least one wall component has, at least in a subregion, a slatted grating formed from crossing groups of bars, of which a first group of spaced-apart parallel bars is oriented in the vertical or diagonal direction and of which a second group of spaced-apart parallel bars is oriented in the horizontal direction, and the plant openings are each bounded by adjacent horizontal and vertical or diagonal bars.

Claims (16)

1. A greenable wall element, comprising:

at least one wall component ( 2 ) oriented in a vertical or a diagonal direction that delimits a cavity ( 4 ), between the at least one wall component ( 2 ) and a wall, that is filled with planting substrate ( 3 ), and the at least one wall component ( 2 ) has a multiplicity of planting openings ( 6 ) through which planting openings ( 6 ) plants ( 23 ) that are adapted to be rooted in the planting substrate ( 4 ) can grow onto a side of the wall element facing away from the planting substrate;

the at least one wall component ( 2 ) has, at least in a subregion, a slatted grating formed from mutually crossing groups of bars ( 9 , 10 ) of which a first group of spaced-apart parallel ones of the bars ( 9 ) is oriented in a vertical or diagonal direction and a second group of spaced-apart parallel ones of the bars ( 10 ) is oriented in a horizontal direction;

the planting openings ( 6 ) are each bounded by adjacent horizontal and vertical or diagonal ones of the bars ( 9 , 10 ), and the bars ( 10 ) oriented in the horizontal direction are angled obliquely upward toward an outer side of the wall element;

wherein the slatted grating comprises a pressed grating, the bars ( 9 ) oriented in the vertical direction comprise supporting bars, and the bars ( 10 ) oriented in the horizontal direction comprise filling bars inserted into indentations ( 12 ) in the supporting bars ( 9 ); and

the slatted grating is comprised of at least one of a metallic material, a non-metallic material, plastic or glass fiber reinforced plastic.

2. The wall element as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a frame ( 11 ) surrounding the slatted grating provided at least in a subregion of the at least one wall component ( 2 ) at an outer periphery thereof.

3. The wall element as claimed in claim 1 , wherein an external longitudinal edge of the bars ( 10 ) oriented in the horizontal direction protrudes beyond the bars ( 9 ) oriented in the vertical direction.

4. The wall element as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the slatted grating is configured to be held on a wall ( 13 ) and at a distance therefrom.

5. The wall element as claimed in claim 4 , further comprising an insulating layer ( 14 ) that is at least one of moisture-impermeable over an entire area thereof or is thermally insulating located between the planting substrate ( 3 ) located in the cavity ( 4 ) of the wall element ( 1 ) on one side and a wall ( 13 ) on an other side.

6. The greenable wall element according to claim 1 , further comprising at least two spaced-apart stand elements ( 18 ) formed as precast concrete parts which ( 18 ) have at least one slot ( 19 , 20 ) in narrow sides thereof that face one another and are oriented in the vertical direction, and the at least one wall component ( 2 ) is held in said at least one slot ( 19 , 20 ).

7. The wall element as claimed in claim 6 , the at least one slot ( 19 , 20 ) comprises a guide slot, and the at least one wall component ( 2 ) is insertable into said guide slot ( 19 , 20 ).

8. The wall element as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a stand element formed as precast concrete part, and the precast concrete part is L-shaped.

9. The wall element as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one wall component comprises two spaced-apart wall components ( 2 ) that at least one of delimit or define a cavity ( 4 ) between one another, and a) the at least two wall components ( 2 ) are oriented parallel to one another, or b) at least one of the two wall components ( 2 ) is oriented diagonally or the two wall components ( 2 ) together define an acute angle.

10. The wall element as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one wall component ( 2 ) comprises at least two of the wall components, ( 2 ) with a respective one being located on each of at least two different sides of the wall element.

11. The wall element as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the at least two wall components ( 2 ) are connected together by connecting elements ( 25 ) and, form a self-supporting structure.

Priority Claims (1)
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Continuity (1)
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