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US 6,320,197 B1Granted
Method and a device for treating cultivation products or cultivation media, and cultivation products obtained with the method
AssigneeSimco Nederland B.V.
InventorsJacobus Cornelis Smit, Herman Dijkman
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Abstract
A method and device for treating cultivation products or a cultivation medium, for instance cultivated soil or a growth substrate, against micro-organisms, for instance nematodes. The cultivation products or cultivation medium to be treated are placed in an electric and/or a magnetic field and held therein for a certain minimum time.
Claims9
A method for treating cultivation products or a cultivation medium against micro-organisms comprising the steps of:
- placing cultivation products or a cultivation medium to be treated in an intermittent electric field or an intermittent magnetic field or both;
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- holding the cultivation products or cultivation medium in the field.
A device for treating cultivation products or a cultivation medium against micro-organisms comprising:
- means for generating an intermittent electric field or an intermittent magnetic field or both, said device being adapted to be placed in the vicinity of means for positioning cultivation products or a cultivation medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.