Growth chamber carousel

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9010018-B2
Application number	US-201313778959-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 27, 2013
Priority date	Mar 27, 2012
Publication date	Apr 21, 2015
Grant date	Apr 21, 2015

Abstract

An apparatus is disclosed which may be used to grow plants in a chamber. In one embodiment, the chamber includes an artificial light source, a plurality of plant supports, a supporting structure configured to rotate the plant supports between two positions, the first position being closer to the artificial light source than the second, and a divider separating the chamber into a light region containing the artificial light source and one of the plant supports in the first position and a dark region containing the other plant support in the second position, wherein the divider is moveable between a first divider position in which the divider prevents movement of the plant supports and a second divider position in which the divider does not prevent movement of the plant supports. Methods of growing plants in a chamber on a moveable member are also disclosed.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A chamber for growing plants comprising:
an artificial light source;
a first plant support;
a second plant support;
a supporting structure coupled to the first plant support and the second plant support, the supporting structure configured to move each plant support between a first position and a second position, the first position being closer to the artificial light source than the second position; and
a divider separating the chamber into a…

Assignees

• Dow Agrosciences Llc

Inventors

• Wiggins Barry
• Parkhurst Dawn Marie
• Vercauteren Michael

Classifications

• A01G31/047

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A01G9/20 Primary

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A01G9/26

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A01G9/14

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A01G9/249 Primary

  Human Necessities · mapped topic