Packaging for Plants, Fruit or Vegetables
AssigneeOceans of Notions Ltd.
InventorsRichard John Stacey Burnet, Paul David Michael Parsons
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Abstract
This invention relates to packaging for the transportation and/or storage of plants or plant material such as nutritional items including fruit, berries or vegetables. It comprises an assembly for the transportation and/or storage of plants or plant material, comprising an upwardly open, rigid base member, and a retention net adapted to fit over the base member, and methods for its use.
Claims31
An assembly for the transportation and/or storage of plants or plant material, which assembly comprises
- an upwardly open, rigid base member, and
- a retention net adapted to fit over the base member,
- wherein the retention net is formed from a unitary piece of mesh fabric that is square or rectangular in its pre-assembled state and has one pair of opposite sides that are elasticated, the juxtaposed ends of said elasticated sides and the respective intervening non-elasticated side being gathered together to form cinch points at each end of the fabric, thereby forming a net having an elasticated perimeter.
A tray for the transportation and/or storage of plants or plant material, the tray comprising an upwardly open, rigid base member, the base member having upstanding sides and a plurality of attachment members, at least one attachment member being located on each of at least one pair of opposing sides of the base member, the attachment members being engageable with a mesh fabric.
A method of packaging plants and/or plant material for transportation and/or storage which method comprises
- (a) providing an upwardly open, rigid base member;
- (b) loading the plants and/or plant material into the base member;
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- (c) fitting a retention net over the base member;
- wherein the retention net is formed from a unitary piece of mesh fabric that is square or rectangular in its pre-assembled state and has one pair of opposite sides that are elasticated, the juxtaposed ends of said elasticated sides and the respective intervening non-elasticated side being gathered together to form cinch points at each end of the fabric, thereby forming a net having an elasticated perimeter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.