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US 11,684,022 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for planting plant cuttings
AssigneeIG Specials B.V.
InventorWim Van Der El
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Abstract
A pick-and-plant head for planting plant cuttings in a cultivation medium. The pick-and-plant head is provided with a grasper including opposed grasping surfaces for grasping a portion of a cutting between them and with an abutment that abuts a cutting. The grasper and abutment are moveable relative to one another and are arranged so that during release of a cutting from the grasper the abutment passes between the opposed grasping surfaces and the cutting is abutted by the abutment.
Claims18
A pick-and-plant head for planting a plant cutting in a cultivation medium comprising:
- a. a grasper comprising opposed grasping surfaces for grasping a portion of a plant cutting between them, wherein the grasper is arranged to pick a plant cutting placed on a supply surface in a horizontal orientation, and wherein the grasper is arranged to rotate the plant cutting into a vertical orientation for directly planting the plant cutting in the cultivation medium, wherein the cultivation medium is soil or rockwool;
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- b. an abutment comprising an abutment surface for abutting the plant cutting, wherein the grasper and the abutment are moveable relative to one another and are arranged so that during release of the plant cutting from the grasper, the abutment passes between the opposed grasping surfaces, and the plant cutting is abutted by the abutment;
- and wherein said pick-and-plant head is a tool-head arranged to carry out both picking of the plant cutting and planting of the grasper directly into said soil or rockwool.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.