Device for promoting growth from seed to plant
AssigneeDaled AB
InventorAlbert Eriksson
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Abstract
A seed is placed in a receptacle filled with soil to grow into a plant. The plant is transplanted when it has reached a certain size and it is then desirable to be able to relocate the plant together with a coherent lump of soil. This is difficult to achieve, but the present invention makes it possible by providing a conical lump of soil that is formed in a depression with a bottom. When the plant has grown sufficiently large so that a root system has been formed, the bottom of the depression need only be upwardly displaced for a firm conical lump of soil with a plant to be obtained, which is easy to transplant.
Claims20
A device for promoting growth from a seed to a plant intended for transplanting, which device includes a depression part with several depressions, each with a cross section that diminishes in size from its opening to its bottom and form through-running holes, a bottom part co-operating with the depression part, and several units, each unit constituting the bottom of a depression and being situated on the bottom part which is movable in relation to the depression part in such a way that, in one position, the units form the bottoms of the depressions and, in another position, are inserted into the depressions, wherein the bottom part is in the shape of a receptacle, the depression part being able to rest on a top edge of the receptacle with the aid of stop means so that each unit forms the bottom of a depression and the depression part descending into the receptacle when the stop means are released so that each unit then assumes a position inside a depression.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.