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US 2022/0053715 A1Published application
Vertical hydroponically plant-growing tower system
AssigneeVerticanna Ltd.
InventorsRoy SHAY, Dan MEIMERON, Yoav ZEIF
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Abstract
The present invention provides hydroponic plant growing vertical towers and systems, and methods of growing plants using them for improved and consistent plant yields.
Claims25
A vertical hydroponically plant-growing tower system comprising:
- a central water reservoir;
- a base unit comprising a water tank;
- a water-quality and water-flow control system;
- a hollow tube connected to the base unit, said hollow tube having an opening at its top allowing air to enter the tube, and a bottom opening allowing the air to flow through the tube and onto the water within said water tank;
- a first light source located within said hollow tube;
- a second light source located onto each one of said one or more growing towers designed to provide additional lighting coming from the tower towards the back of the plants;
- at least one ventilation unit designed to push air through the upper opening of said hollow tube across said first light source and into said water tank;
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- one or more rotatable growing hollow towers having planting niches, each growing tower has a hording reservoir at its top from which water flow over the inner wall of the tower across said planting niches,
- wherein said growing hollow towers can be rotated to thereby enable access to the planting niches located on all sides of the growing tower.
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A vertical hydroponically plant-growing tower system comprising:
- a base unit comprising a water tank,
- wherein said water tank is designed to be connected to a water tank(s) of a nearby parallel tower system(s);
- a water-quality and water-flow control system, comprising:
- at least one water pump;
- at least one sensor for measuring at least one of the following parameters of the water within the water tank:
- pH, electric conductivity (EC), and temperature;
- a water treatment system;
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- at least one water chiller/heater;
- one or more rotatable growing hollow towers having planting niches in a zigzag orientation, each growing tower has a hording reservoir at its top from which water flow over the inner wall of the tower across said planting niches, wherein:
- said at least one water pump is designed to pump water from said water tank into said hording reservoir;
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- said growing hollow towers can be rotated to thereby enable access to the planting niches located on all sides of the growing tower;
- a hollow tube connected to the base unit at its center, said hollow tube having an opening at its top allowing air to enter the tube, and a bottom opening allowing the air to flow through the tube and onto the water within said water tank;
- a first light source located within said hollow tube;
- a second light source located onto each one of said one or more growing towers;
- and
- at least one ventilation unit designed to push air through the upper opening of said hollow tube across said first light source and into said water tank;
- wherein:
- the passage of air through the hollow tube enables delivering any heat that might be generated by said first light source to the water in said water tank instead of to the environment, thereby enabling the water to adsorb said heat for later chilling by said at least one water chiller/heater.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.