Growing medium and mulch fiber opening apparatus
AssigneeProfile Products L.L.C.
InventorsKevin Scott Spittle, Gary Lane Bowers
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Abstract
A compressed growing medium or mulch fiber opener comprising at least one set of adjacent rotating members, the rotating members having a surface and including at least one wire wound around at least a portion of the surface, wherein the wire includes a plurality of projections engaging compressed or partially opened growing medium or mulch fiber, and wherein a distance between the adjacent rotating members is sufficiently small to create at least one pinch point between the adjacent rotating members, the adjacent rotating members separating the fibers as the fibers pass through the at least one pinch point so that the density of the fiber is lowered.
Claims20
A growing medium or mulch fiber opener comprising:
- at least one set of adjacent rotating members, each rotating member having a surface including at least one wire wound around at least a portion of the surface and ridges on the surface, the at least one wire being disposed within the ridges and including a plurality of projections, the projections configured to open and expand compressed or partially opened growing medium or mulch fiber;
- the adjacent rotating members being positioned relative to each other to provide at least one pinch point between the adjacent rotating members, the adjacent rotating members capable of separating fibers as input fiber passes through the at least one pinch point;
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- at least some projections are pyramids having a triangular cross-section and a base which gradually narrows at a top of the pyramid.
A growing medium or mulch fiber opener comprising:
- at least one set of adjacent rotating members, each rotating member having a surface including at least one wire wound around at least a portion of the surface and ridges on the surface, the at least one wire being disposed within the ridges and including a plurality of projections, the projections configured to open and expand compressed or partially opened growing medium or mulch fiber;
- the adjacent rotating members being positioned relative to each other to provide at least one pinch point between the adjacent rotating members, the adjacent rotating members capable of separating fibers as input fiber passes through the at least one pinch point;
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- each of the projections having at least four sides and at least two of the at least four sides of each projection having the same length.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.