Vertical hydroponic plant production apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9380751-B2
Application number	US-201213666996-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 2, 2012
Priority date	Aug 3, 2009
Publication date	Jul 5, 2016
Grant date	Jul 5, 2016

Abstract

A vertical hydroponic plant production apparatus for allowing vertical hydroponic greenhouse crop production is provided. The apparatus comprises a hollow grow tube having a front face, a back face, an open first end, and an open second end. A slot is formed in the front face of the grow tube with the slot having a width equal to only a portion of a width of the front face. A media material is insertable into the grow tube. The slot allows the front face to expand outward during insertion of the media material and biased inward against the media material once the media material is inserted. The grow tube is positionable in either a horizontal position, vertical position, or any position between the horizontal position and the vertical position allowing inclined, multi-angled crop production and multi-storied conveyor style crop production.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vertical hydroponic plant production apparatus for vertical hydroponic greenhouse crop production, the apparatus comprising:
a hollow grow tube having a front face, a back face, an open first end, and an open second end;
a slot formed in the front face of the grow tube, wherein the slot is formed between two flanges, wherein the width of the slot is equal to between 1/12 and ¼ the width of the front face;
a media material insertable into the grow tube;…

Assignees

• Univ Wyoming

Inventors

• Storey Nathaniel R

Classifications

• A01G31/02 Primary

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• Y02P60/21

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic