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
  • A01G9/00—Cultivation in receptacles, forcing-frames or greenhouses; Edging for beds, lawn or the like
  • A01G9/02—Receptacles, e.g. flower-pots or boxes; Glasses for cultivating flowers
  • A01G9/022—Pots for vertical horticulture
• • 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
  • A01G9/28—Raised beds; Planting beds; Edging elements for beds, lawn or the like, e.g. tiles

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a technical device, intended to facilitate the production of beds, flowerbeds and other floral decorations, of all shapes and sizes and on all types of terrain, whether these are sloping, such as embankments, or substantially horizontal .
• the floral decoration is currently carried out by professionals. These usually determine the location of each plant using lines and measures, in order to reproduce the desired pattern, previously defined according to a plan drawn on a small scale. This traditional process requires a very large number of manual measurements, which are difficult to carry out with precision, and which are carried out according to very variable and sometimes cumbersome methods. Consequently, the complexity of the chosen motif can only be limited.
• European patent application No. 0448153 describes a complex assembly, comprising a leaf and planters moored on the leaf. Such an assembly is also particularly heavy and difficult to handle and to set up. In addition, it is not designed for the realization of very varied floral patterns, and its field application is limited to planters aligned or arranged in regular grid pattern.
• European patent application No. 0285202 relates to a cover ensuring the maintenance of an artificial soil, which is not at all the objective of the present invention.
• the present invention aims to eliminate all the disadvantages or inadequacies previously exposed, by providing a device designed to facilitate the production of flower beds and decorations, so as to allow faster and always precise production, even with less qualified personnel, therefore with a definite saving without any reduction in the quality of the result, whatever the pattern to be produced and even in the case of complex patterns.
• the subject of the invention is essentially a device for producing flower beds and floral decorations, from plants in pots or in pots, which essentially consists of at least one plate or sheet of predetermined outline, intended to be laid flat on the ground, which plate or sheet has on its extent a set of openings of arrangement and predetermined dimensions, each opening being designed to receive and hold in place a pot or bucket.
• the basic idea of the invention is to provide a pre-perforated plate or sheet, allowing the positioning and wedging of plants in pots or pots according to a predefined pattern, the openings made in said plate or sheet being a function of the size and shape of the pot corresponding to each plant, and the gaps between these openings being a function of one space required for the maturity of each plant.
• Said plate or sheet is placed directly on the ground, whether it is horizontal or sloping.
• the plate or sheet has, on its face opposite to that applied to the ground, lines and / or colored zones in correspondence with the floral motif to be reproduced. It is therefore sufficient to place each plant in a pot or scoop, of given color, in an opening in the area of the plate or sheet identified by the same color. This allows an immediate choice of plants, greater precision and certainty of exact reproduction of the desired pattern, and the production of more complex patterns especially with regard to color combinations.
• the presence of distinctive colored zones thus allows a good perception of the motif being reproduced, whether it is seen from near or far, for the personnel employed in the realization of the massif or floral decoration concerned.
• This plate can be presented as a rigid perforated panel.
• it can also be a more or less flexible sheet, which allows on the one hand storage or transport in a small space, the sheet being folded or rolled up, and on the other hand allows said sheet, placed on the ground, to follow any irregularities on the ground.
• this plate or sheet may be permeable to water, for example by being made of a microporous material, so as not to obstruct the penetration of rainwater or runoff into the soil located under the plate. If this plate is covered with paint forming the colored areas, this paint must also be permeable or porous.
• An embodiment of said plate or sheet in a biodegradable material is also advantageous, with an ecological concern.
• the plate or sheet can also have thermal insulation properties, and it can also constitute, by its simple presence, a "barrier” preventing too rapid evaporation of the water contained in the soil.
• said plate or sheet may contain and distribute a soil treatment product, such as fertilizer or insecticide.
• the openings of the plate or sheet may have edges belonging to a cylindrical surface whose generatrices are oriented in a direction forming, with the plane of the plate or sheet, an angle other than 90 °.
• the pots or pots receiving the plants can be positioned at a different inclination from that of the plate.
• the arrangement can be such that the pots or buckets are positioned in an upright position, that is to say with their axes oriented vertically, while the plate or sheet is inclined according to the slope of the slope.
• the device thus ensures effective retention of pots or buckets on an inclined floor; moreover, it can regularize and stabilize the slope itself.
• the device which is the subject of the invention can advantageously be used with cups of generally cylindrical shape, but have an upper retaining rim situated in an inclined plane, that is to say a plane forming an angle different from 90 ° to the central axis of the bucket.
• Figure 1 is a front view of a device according to the present invention.
• Figure 2 shows the device object of the invention seen in vertical section, placed on an inclined floor
• Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view, on an enlarged scale, of a detail of Figure 2.
• the device object of the invention is presented as a plate which has an outline 2 of predetermined shape, which can be a geometric shape simple such as a rectangle, or any polygonal or curvilinear shape. Over the extent of the plate 1, are provided openings 3 in greater or lesser number, of arrangement and predetermined dimensions.
• the upper face 4 of the plate 1 has colored zones 5, separated from each other by lines 6, straight or curved, drawn on this face 4.
• the lines 6 delimit, for example, with the contour 2 of the plate 1, three zones 5a, 5b and 5c, provided to receive pots or pots of blue, red and yellow flowers respectively.
• the device thus foreshadows the floral motif to be reproduced, both for the positions of the flowers making up this motif, and for the colors of these flowers. More particularly, in the zone 5a here in the form of a curved strip, the openings 3a are pierced by following the line 6 which delimits this zone 5a. In zone 5b, openings 3b are drilled along the lines 6 which delimit this zone 5b, and other openings 3c are drilled, in a staggered distribution, over the remainder of this zone 5b. In zone 5c, 3d openings are also drilled along the lines 6 which delimit this zone 5c, and other openings 3c are drilled, according to a grid distribution, on the remainder of this zone 5c.
• the openings 3a, 3b and 3d can be pre-drilled by means of a follower laser, which follows the lines 6.
• the colored zones 5 and the lines 6 can be produced using an associated inkjet machine to a computer control system.
• the plate 1 can thus be produced economically, even if it is a unit production or in small series.
• FIG. 2 illustrates the use of the device and, more particularly, its application to the production of a floral decoration on an inclined floor 7, which can in particular be that of a slope 8, the slope of which is defined by an angle A.
• the plate 1 is placed flat on the ground 7, its colored face 4 being visible and its opposite face 9 being applied to the ground 7.
• each opening 3 receives a pot or cup 10 with a plant producing one or more flowers 11 of red color.
• each opening 3 receives a pot or cup 12 with a plant producing one or more flowers 13 of blue color.
• the plants are thus positioned, and held in place, according to the floral motif to be reproduced.
• each opening 3 of the plate 1 here advantageously has an elliptical shape, the edge 14 of the opening 3 belonging to a cylindrical surface whose generatrices form, with the plane of the plate 1, a angle B complementary to the slope A of the slope 8.
• these generatrices are vertical, which makes it possible to position a bucket 10 with its central axis 15 oriented vertically.
• each cup 10 or 12 has a generally cylindrical shape, but is provided with an upper retaining rim 16 situated in an inclined plane, forming an angle C (equal to the angle B previously defined) relative to the central axis 15 of this bucket 10 or 12.
• Such a bucket 10 or 12 reported on plate 1 constitutes the equivalent of a flowerpot and contains a certain amount of potting soil 17, which can overcome a lower layer 18 of mineral salts, also forming a reserve of water .
• the plate 1 can be made of a water-permeable and biodegradable material, of the paper pulp or cardboard pulp type.
• the cups 10 and 12 are made of a material of the same kind. While a device constituted by a single plate 1 has been described above, it should be noted that, for the production of beds or floral patterns of large extent, the device object of the invention may be constituted by several plates or juxtaposed perforated sheets.
• the device not placed on an inclined floor, but placed flat on a substantially horizontal floor, to facilitate the realization of a simple flower bed, in which case the edges of the openings no longer need to be inclined relative to the plane of the plate or sheet.

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• 1998
  • 1998-06-30 CN CN98814124A patent/CN1299232A/zh active Pending
  • 1998-06-30 WO PCT/FR1998/001395 patent/WO2000000013A1/fr not_active Application Discontinuation
  • 1998-06-30 CA CA002335909A patent/CA2335909A1/fr not_active Abandoned
  • 1998-06-30 AU AU84445/98A patent/AU8444598A/en not_active Abandoned
  • 1998-06-30 EP EP98935063A patent/EP1091637A1/fr not_active Withdrawn

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