Plant cultivation container

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9655304-B2
Application number	US-201013511492-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 30, 2010
Priority date	Nov 30, 2009
Publication date	May 23, 2017
Grant date	May 23, 2017

Abstract

A plant cultivation container is provided which does not need a feed-water tube made of a porous material or the like but the plant cultivation bed material can be made permeated in a relatively short time period. For this purpose, a water reservoir portion for pooling plant cultivation water is provided, the water reservoir portion having a bed material accommodation part for placing a water-absorbing plant cultivation bed material. In the plant cultivation container, the water reservoir portion is provided with a surrounding feed-water channel that surrounds an entire circumference of the bed material accommodation part, and a feed-discharge channel for supplying the plant cultivation water from outside to the water reservoir portion and for discharging the plant cultivation water in the water reservoir portion to outside is provided in communication with the surrounding feed-water channel.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A plant cultivation container comprising:
a water reservoir portion for pooling plant cultivation water, the water reservoir portion having a bed material accommodation part for placing a water-absorbing plant cultivation bed material; and
a surrounding feed-water channel that is defined between a circumferential wall face of the water reservoir portion and plate-shaped projections positioned radially inward of the circumferential wall face of the water reservoir portion, wherein the surrounding feed-water channel surrounds an entire circumference of the bed material accommodation part,
a feed-discharge channel, which supplies the plant cultivation water from outside to the water reservoir portion and discharges the plant cultivation water in the water reservoir portion to the outside, is provided in communication with the surrounding feed-water channel, and
the surrounding feed-water channel is provided with a first weir member that extends between one of the plate-shaped projections and the circumferential wall face of the water reservoir portion to block a passage of the water-feed channel, thereby preventing the plant cultivation water from entering the feed-water channel in a first direction and redirecting incident plant cultivation water to enter the feed-water channel in a second direction that is opposite the first direction.

2. The plant cultivation container according to claim 1 , wherein the feed-discharge channel is in a shape of a groove disposed next to one side of the water reservoir portion.

3. The plant cultivation container according to claim 2 , further comprising: a second weir member for dividing the feed-discharge channel into a first channel on an upstream side and a second channel on a downstream side in a water flow direction; and a partition wall for partitioning the feed-discharge channel and the water reservoir portion,
wherein
in the partition wall, a first opening for allowing the first channel of the feed-discharge channel to communicate with an upstream side of the surrounding feed-water channel and a second opening for allowing the second channel of the feed-discharge channel to communicate with a downstream side of the surrounding feed-water channel are formed at a distance from each other.

4. The plant cultivation container according to claim 2 , wherein the water reservoir portion is formed of two water reservoir portions arranged side by side so that the water reservoir portions are opposed across the feed-discharge channel.

5. The plant cultivation container according to claim 2 , wherein a plurality of the water reservoir portions are arranged adjacent to each other along the feed-discharge channel, and between the adjacent water reservoir portions, a third weir member for pooling the plant cultivation water is provided.

6. The plant cultivation container according to claim 5 , further comprising: a second weir member for dividing the feed-discharge channel into a first channel on an upstream side and a second channel on a downstream side in a water flow direction; and a partition wall for partitioning the feed-discharge channel and the water reservoir portion,
wherein
in the partition wall, a first opening for allowing the first channel of the feed-discharge channel to communicate with the water reservoir portion on the upstream side and a second opening for allowing the second channel of the feed-discharge channel to communicate with the surrounding feed-water channel on the downstream side are formed.

7. The plant cultivation container according to claim 6 , wherein a weir member for pooling the plant cultivation water in the water reservoir portion on the downstream side is provided between the second opening and the second channel.

8. The plant cultivation container according to claim 5 , further comprising an engaging portion for additionally and removably attaching an auxiliary weir at a position adjacent to the third weir member on an upstream side or downstream side thereof.

Assignees

• Hashimoto Masaki
• Suntory Holdings Ltd

Inventors

• Hashimoto Masaki

Classifications

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