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7401437 Rotary plant growing apparatus  
A rotary growing apparatus which utilises a single ring mounted on a support, the ring being rotatably driven above the rotational axis thereof, and having a plurality of medium retaining members...
7243460 Support for vertical hydroponic plants matrix  
The plant roots are embedded in a fibrous matrix material, which is oriented vertically. The matrix material is fixed to a support structure using a grid of fasteners. The support structure may be...
6840007 Rotary plant growing apparatus  
A rotary growing apparatus comprises a cylindrical structure or drum provided with a series of parallel elongated, longitudinally extending, baskets adapted to receive therein the plants to be...
6601342 Culture tray for the rooting of young plants  
A culture tray for the rooting of young plants in parallel rows including an open-top housing having a base wall and a peripherally extending edge. The housing-base wall defines a plurality of...
6574917 Hydroponic apparatus using elliptical conduit  
The present invention aims to alleviate at least one of the abovementioned disadvantages and to provide a hydroponic apparatus which will be reliable and efficient in use. Other objects and...
6276089 Chamber for aeroponic culture  
A waterproof sheet is provided with fold lines to fold the sheet into a chamber for aeroponic and hydroponic culture. Additional waterproof sheets are provided with suitable fold lines for folding...
6247268 Hydroponic device  
The improved hydroponic device is an invention that because of its unique design, is readily constructed by mostly standard off the shelf components. The invention is self contained, self cleaning,...
6219966 Container for hydroponic culture and method for making same  
A container for hydroponic culture, a hydroponic culture system using such a container and a method for making such a container are described herein. The container has a semi-cylindrical body...
6138410 Automation of grading and sticking vegetative cuttings and accumulation therefor  
A live plant container comprises an elongated trough, a hydratable propagating medium positioned in and substantially filling the trough, and a cover closing off the trough to form an oasis for the...
6058650 Planting apparatus and method for green plants on reinforced concrete structures  
Apparatus for planting green plants on reinforced concrete structures includes a T-shaped base mount having a positioning hole connected to an L-shaped tube and a high density sponge inside. The...
5996280 Modular soil conserving planter  
A modular soil conserving planter constitutes a longitudinal trough having open transverse end faces, the trough including a lower horizontal grate and an upper horizontal grate, each of such...
5983563 Artificial water cycle system  
An artificial water cycle system is comprised of one or more water table cells or beds, having a generally horizontally disposed base and one or more generally vertically disposed sidewalls each...
5878527 Installation for cultivation of plants on a conveyor belt  
The invention relates to a method for the cultivation of plants, comprising the following steps: a) placing root containers (2) containing a plant on a cultivation conveyor belt (4), b)...
5675932 Plant growing system  
A mobile, enclosed plant growing apparatus including a plumbing/irrigation system and a method for using such. The plumbing/irrigation system includes a modularized reservoir system, light tight...
5558461 Tubular gutter system  
System for draining a land surface (10) which is covered by a waterproof membrane (12), whereby tubular gutters (14) are installed in trenches in the land surface (10) adjacent to the margins of...
5409510 Watering gutter  
A watering gutter for use in a flood irrigation system is an elongate channel with spaced side walls and two container supporting surfaces running along the bag. The container supporting surfaces...
5269094 Apparatus for purifying waste water and air in an indoor environment  
An apparatus for purifying waste water in an indoor environment is a container for holding the waste water to be treated together with at least one liner for receiving and holding an individual...
5252108 Hydroponic farming method and apparatus  
A hydroponic farming system has seed germination, seedling growth, plant picking, cool storage/shipping and equipment cleaning areas arranged to follow the flow of the plant processing cycle....
5216836 Movable root contact/pressure plate assembly for hydroponic system  
A hydroponic system for growing sweet potatoes and other root and tuber crops includes a growing channel incorporating a movable root contact/pressure plate assembly. The assembly consists of a...
5189834 Apparatus for irrigating container grown plants in a closed system  
The irrigation and sub-irrigation of plants in containers having holes in the container bottoms are achieved while conserving large amounts of excess water through the use of a plant support bench...
5137625 Aquatic plant/microbial water purification system  
A multi-stage active biological waste water treatment Apparatus. An anaerobic, sludge settling first lagoon or chamber has a distributed piping system providing multiple, spaced outlets for the...
5042196 Apparatus for hydroponic cultivation  
The apparatus is concerned with an economical and efficient means for getting plants (e.g., lettuces, strawberries, etc.) into and out of the hydroponic growing troughs. The many troughs are...
5010686 Hydroponic system  
A hydroponic system includes a channel-like trough formed of parallel side walls and an orthogonal bottom wall defining an upwardly opening coffer. A pair of oblique walls extend integrally from a...
5009029 Conductive temperature control system for plant cultivation  
A method and apparatus for growing plants by controlling growing temperatures in conventional and hydroponic planting systems. Plants placed in a plant growing medium are contained in metal growing...
4926585 Plant nutrient delivery system having a porous tubular member  
A tubular membrane plant growth unit is described. The unit includes a tubular pipe with an opening in its wall. A tubular porous member is situated inside of the pipe. The member and pipe are...
4884366 Micro-climate plant growing system  
A system is provided for creating a localized climate around plants. Troughs containing plants in a growing medium are arranged in rows over the open top of a plenum chamber. The chamber is...
4839051 Method for treating water  
A method and apparatus for treating contaminated water without addition of chemical agents. A treatment zone is provided, having water-impermeable bottom and side walls, the bottom sloping stepwise...
4833825 System for supporting growing plants  
There is provided a new and useful support system for growing plants comprising a supporting framework; at least one elongated support tray on the framework, the support tray having feeding and...
4824572 Method and apparatus for treating household waste water  
A waste water treatment facility includes a gravity flow treatment bed which receives waste effluent from a plurality of individual septic tanks. The treatment bed includes a bottom layer of small...
4737973 Crystal monochromator  
A focusing X-ray crystal monochromator in which one or more crystal layers having different spacings of lattice plane are stacked on a crystal base. Due to different spacings of lattice plane, the...
4704818 Hydroponic growing system and stackable modular components thereof  
An assembly of preferably frusto-conical shell like members for use in hydroponic growing of plants have openings in the walls through which plants can grow and a matrix of rooting material within...
4584791 Soiless agricultural system and components therefore  
A soilless agricultural system and components therefore including a hydroponic assembly comprising support means for defining a crop field, nutrient solution circulating system and a plant tray...
4437264 Hydroponic apparatus and method  
The method of supplying nutrient liquid to a plant growing system comprising a series of many planters that are essentially alike and that are disposed at a common level, the system including a...
4403446 Hydroponic growing medium and method  
A hydroponic growth medium in the form of a disposable tubular fibrous element. The tubular element consists of axially oriented internal fibers to provide good capillary or wicking properties to...
4397114 Soiless growing system  
A horizontal water reservoir pipe includes plant support riser pipes spaced along its length, each of which contain a growing medium in a mesh tube, extending into the water in the water pipe. The...
4392328 Cellular moist film plant culture system  
An improved system for growing plants is provided which includes an envelope having a closable seam along at least one edge and having sheets of porous flexible material which carry a number of dry...
4302906 Soilless culture device  
This invention relates to a soilless culture device comprising a culture solution tank and a cultivation vessel having a flow path for the solution fed from the solution tank. Where the solution...
4294037 Production of mycorrhizal fungi  
A process for the production of vesicular-arbuscular (VA) mycorrhizal fungi comprises growing a VA mycorrhizal fungus on plant roots in nutrient film culture. The resulting mycorrhizal fungus...
4255896 Hydroponic growing apparatus  
A hydroponic plant growing apparatus is disclosed wherein a nutrient enriched liquid is flowed within a series of ducts adapted to mount a plurality of planting cups, each of which support a...
4245434 Method and apparatus for irrigating container-grown plants  
The subirrigation of soil in a container for container-grown plants is accomplished upwardly through an opening in the container bottom by placing the container on the upper surface of a capillary...
4218847 Hydroponic apparatus  
A hydroponic apparatus comprising a free standing base housing a nutrient feed supply and a plurality of mutually supporting plant trays extending diagonally upward from the free standing base...
4211035 Hydroponic gardening apparatus  
Hydroponic gardening apparatus mounted within its own shelter includes a lower reservoir containing a liquid nutrient, and a pump for flowing liquid nutrient from the lower reservoir to an upper...
4185414 Feed regulator for nutrient film agriculture system  
Nutrient feed regulation systems for automatic control of nutrient flow rates in controlled environment agriculture installations utilizing nutrient film techniques. Such control is provided by...
4163342 Controlled environment agriculture facility and method for its operation  
This disclosure is of a controlled environment agriculture system in which a plurality of plant grow support racks are arranged in an array complementary to that of the lamps which provide...
4161193 Open ducts designed for ready disassembly and re-use  
Open ducts for ground heating of hothouses consist of flattened tubes of flexible material such as plastic. The tubes are slit open lengthwise, folded back over tensioned cords and secured by...
4118891 System for growing plants  
In a conduit system for feeding water and nutrients to plants, the conduits are formed of thin, pliable, collapsible plastic foil. The plant is placed in the tube through slots in the tube and the...
4107876 Inverted V channel culture  
A planter having a longitudinal inverted-V floor and inner and outer walls is disclosed. The lower portion of the inner walls are water permeable. The outer walls and lower portion of the floor...
4092803 Self-watering apparatus for plants  
Apparatus is disclosed which provides for the efficient self-watering of plants from a moving flow of water in a display unit tray. The watering apparatus includes an interior upright drain conduit...
4035950 Channel-like structure for horticulture and flower-growing  
In a tubular system for hydroponic culture,the improvement consisting in that the channel structure comprises a central core of a comparatively stiff plastics material and the sidewalls are made of...
4001968 Soil irrigation system and method  
Irrigation of a body of soil or other plant-growing medium appropriate for growing plants in hothouses, florist shops and the like is controlled by interposing between the body of soil, which may...
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