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US 4,098,020 AGranted
Method and apparatus for horticultural grafting
OwnerEdward J. Cookinventor
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A method and apparatus are disclosed for making improved grafting joints between plant components, particularly woody plants. Selected plant materials may be grafted one upon another by cutting out two diametrically opposed, longitudinally diagonal sectors from each end of the plant parts to be joined. The sectors are of equal length on each plant part and are joined by slipping the sectored end of one plant part into the cooperating sectored end of the other plant part so that the parts interlock. The joint is then enveloped by tape or the like to seal the joint. Hand tools and semi-automatic machinery are disclosed for sectoring plants in a single operation and include radial cutting elements arranged perpendicularly to one another and adapted to make four simultaneous slits lengthwise and diagonally along the plant simultaneously removing the waste slit sectors.
The method of grafting one plant component to another of similar diameter comprising the steps of
Apparatus for sectoring the end of a plant component for grafting to a similarly sectored end of another plant component, comprising
Apparatus for sectoring the end of a plant component for grafting to a similarly sectored end of another plant component, comprising
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