Crop protection netting
AssigneeExtenday IP Limited
InventorJonathan Dallas Toye
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Abstract
Crop protection netting for covering trees or other plants for insect or bird exclusion is of a knitted mesh construction, including knit intersections in the netting and connecting yarn portions between the yarn intersections which extend substantially linearly between intersections. The netting is lightweight and strechable in multiple directions.
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Crop protection netting having a greater length than width and which is of a knitted mesh construction, knitted such that at yarn intersections in the netting multiple yarns of which the netting is formed are knitted around each other to define the netting mesh apertures so that the netting is stretchable in multiple directions, connecting yarn portions between said yarn intersections extending substantially linearly between intersections, and each yarn intersection in the netting being connected to adjacent and surrounding yarn intersections by connecting yarn portions each comprising at least two yarn lengths that are at least free of knots or loops for 2 mm or more in length between the intersections.
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Crop protection netting of a knitted mesh construction which is stretchable in multiple directions, comprising connecting yarn portions between knitted yarn intersections which extend substantially linearly between the yarn intersections, which is knitted from multiple yarns, and wherein said connecting yarn portions between knitted yarn intersections each comprise at least two yarn lengths, the netting having a mesh size in the range of approximately 2 mm to 10 mm, the yarn having a diameter in the range of approximately 0.1 mm to 1 mm, and the netting having a weight in the range approximately 10 to 100 grams per m2.
Crop protection netting having a greater length than width and which is of a knitted mesh construction, knitted such that at yarn intersections in the netting multiple yarns of which the netting is formed are looped around each other to define the netting mesh apertures so that the netting is stretchable in multiple directions, and wherein connecting yarn portions between said yarn intersections extend substantially linearly between intersections, each intersection being formed by knitting together of three yarn parts passing through the intersection:
- a first yarn which enters the intersection along a first axis and exits the intersection along the same first axis, so that a first connecting portion to a first adjacent intersection comprises adjacent lengths of the same yarn,
- a second yarn which enters the intersection along a second axis, passes through the loop within the intersection of the first yarn, and extends to and returns from a second adjacent intersection along a third axis so that a second connecting portion to that adjacent intersection comprises adjacent lengths of the same yarn, and exits the intersection along a fourth axis, and
- a third yarn which enters the intersection along the second axis so that a third connecting portion from a third adjacent intersection comprises portions of both the second and third yarns, passes through the loop in the intersection of the first yarn, and exits the intersection along fourth axis with the second yarn, so that a fourth connecting portion to a fourth adjacent intersection comprises portions of both the second and third yarns.
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Crop protection netting having a greater length than width and which is of a knitted mesh construction, knitted such that at yarn intersections in the netting multiple yarns of which the netting is formed are knitted around each other to define the netting mesh apertures so that the netting is stretchable in multiple directions, connecting yarn portions between yarn intersections extending substantially linearly between intersections, and the yarn intersections of immediately adjacent rows being staggered relative to one another.
Crop protection netting according to 66 wherein the yarn has a diameter in the range of approximately 0.1 mm to 1 mm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.