US 2024/0065183 A1Published application

Vine Trellis

AssigneeNz Tube Mills Limited

InventorTerry Carter

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Abstract

Grape vines may grow on a trellis comprising a series of wires supported by a line of posts, but it is difficult to machine-prune vines after harvest without interference from wires. A trellis having primary posts and secondary posts may support vines in a manner that cane growing from vine's cordons can be readily removed. Between each neighing pair of primary posts there are at least two secondary posts. A cordon wire runs along and is supported by the posts at or adjacent to top. Cordons of vines are connected to, and grow along, wire such that most foliage and grapes forming part of vines grow below wire. Wire is held by posts above ground level in a manner to be non-destructively pulled upwards to free it from posts. This may occur after cordons have been severed from rest of vine and may then be readily stripped from wire.

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Dependent claims

A trellis supporting a plurality of growing vines, comprising:

a plurality of metallic primary posts each having a transverse cross section of 63 mm (or 2.5 inches) ±30%;
and
a plurality of metallic secondary posts each having a transverse cross section of 11 mm (or 0.4 inches) ±50%;
wherein:
the primary and secondary posts extend from the ground in a line so that between each neighing pair of the primary posts there are at least two of the secondary posts;
a cordon thread runs along and is supported by the primary and secondary posts at or adjacent to the top of these;
cordons of the vines are connected to, and extend along, the cordon thread generally in the longitudinal direction of the thread, and such that at least most foliage and grapes forming part of the vines have grown below the thread;
and
the cordon thread is held by the primary and secondary posts in such a manner that it can be non-destructively pulled upwards to free it from the posts at least when the vines have seasonally substantially shed their foliage.

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