System and method for vertical farming
AssigneeOishii Farm Corporation
InventorsAndres Camarena, Walter Mielarczyk, Hitoshi Kawashima, Bryan Lim
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Abstract
An irrigation system for a vertical farm system including one or more irrigation stations, each of the one or more irrigation stations including one or more tanks that hold irrigation fluid, and one or more spigots that deliver the irrigation fluid from the one or more tanks to the vertical farm system. Each of the one or more irrigation stations includes a plurality of sub-assemblies, and each sub-assembly includes a corresponding one of the one or more tanks and a corresponding one of the one or more spigots.
Claims5
An irrigation system for a vertical farm system, the irrigation system comprising:
- a main drainpipe;
- and
- one or more irrigation stations, each of the one or more irrigation stations comprising:
- one or more tanks that hold irrigation fluid;
- and
- one or more spigots configured to deliver the irrigation fluid from the one or more tanks to the vertical farm system, wherein each of the one or more irrigation stations comprises a plurality of sub-assemblies arranged in a vertical stack relative to one another, each sub-assembly comprising:
- a corresponding one of the one or more tanks;
- a corresponding one of the one or more spigots;
- a corresponding stopper;
- a corresponding piston assembly configured to move the corresponding stopper between a position in which the stopper blocks a drain of the vertical farm system and a position in which the stopper unblocks the drain;
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- a corresponding drain tray configured to guide the irrigation fluid, drained due to the stopper unblocking the drain from the sub-assembly, to the main drainpipe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.