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US 12,672,620 B2Granted
Plant propagation systems, devices and methods
AssigneeLowes TC Pty Ltd
InventorGreg Lowe
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Abstract
A plant propagation system is provided that includes a holder for holding at least two plants in relative spaced apart relation to enable a predetermined operation (such as, for example, a cutting operation) to be performed on each of the plants within the holder during a single pass.
Claims14
A plant propagation system, including:
- a container;
- and
- a holder for holding at least two plants in relative spaced apart relation;
- wherein the holder includes two or more trays stacked to form a stack of trays, wherein each tray has the same shape and configuration, and wherein each tray has a plurality of through openings, respective through openings of the trays in the stack of trays being aligned to form through passages through which the plants can grow;
- and
- wherein,
- (a) the plurality of through openings in each tray are all the same shape,
- (b) the plurality of through openings in each tray are all the same size, and/or
- (c) each tray has the same profile and pattern of openings;
- and
- wherein the stack of trays is releasably receivable in the container and formed such that, when the stack of trays is removed from the container, a cutting mechanism can effect a lateral cutting operation on the plants between a respective pair of adjacent trays in the stack of trays.
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A plant propagation system, including:
- a container;
- and
- a holder for holding at least two plants in relative spaced apart relation;
- wherein the holder includes two or more trays stacked to form a stack of trays, wherein each tray has the same shape and configuration, and wherein each tray has a plurality of through openings, respective through openings of the trays in the stack of trays being aligned to form through passages through which the plants can grow;
- wherein the stack of trays is releasably receivable in the container and formed such that, when the stack of trays is removed from the container, a cutting mechanism can effect a lateral cutting operation on the plants between a respective pair of adjacent trays in the stack of trays;
- wherein each of the plurality of openings is configured to receive at least a portion of one of the at least two plants;
- and
- wherein the plurality of openings in each tray are arranged in an irregular array.
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A plant propagation system, including:
- a container;
- a holder for holding at least two plants in relative spaced apart relation;
- and
- a cutting mechanism;
- wherein the holder includes two or more trays stacked to form a stack of trays, wherein each tray has the same shape and configuration, and wherein each tray has a plurality of through openings, respective through openings of the trays in the stack of trays being aligned to form through passages through which the plants can grow;
- wherein the stack of trays is releasably receivable in the container and formed such that, when the stack of trays is removed from the container, a cutting mechanism can effect a lateral cutting operation on the plants between a respective pair of adjacent trays in the stack of trays;
- and
- wherein the cutting mechanism includes at least one of:
- a hand-held cutting tool for manual cutting of the at least two plants or a cutting element adapted to be slidably received between the respective pair of adjacent trays to cause the lateral cutting operation on the at least two plants.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.