1. Field Of The Invention
The present invention relates to an improved structure of a planting tray and, more particularly, to a lightweight, wearable, easy-to-clean, reusable structure of a planting tray.
2. Description Of Related Art
With the increasingly serious environmental pollution and attention about food safety issues, various non-polluting organic foods (vegetable, fruit) are gradually popular. However, the global ecological environment accelerated deterioration, there is less and less uncontaminated land, so that cost of soil cultivation of organic vegetables and fruits is high and whole production is limited, it is difficult to meet needs of consumers.
Therefore, indoor cultivation technology provided for adjusting crop growth cycle has been widely developed and mature gradually by using lighting system (LED, halogen lamps) in the recent years; wherein it is more popular that supplying liquid fertilizer in hydroponics or aerosol way.
Equipments commonly applied for hydroponics or aerosol cultivation are mainly setting a planting tray on a predetermined container or channel, multiple planting holes thoroughly set on the planting tray are provided to insert planted plants and let roots of the planted plants extend into the container or the channel, to absorb nutrients in the container or the channel for growth. However, a common planting tray is made of Styrofoam material, which has the following drawbacks in use:
In view of the drawbacks of a conventional planting tray, the inventor researched and improved the drawbacks and the present invention is finally generated.
The object of the present invention is to provide an improved structure of a planting tray, which is mainly an internal hollow planting tray that formed by blow molding and made of plastic materials, multiple planting holes gradually narrow from top to bottom are evenly distributed on the planting tray, multiple relatively convex positioning protrusions are set on an inner side of each planting hole for holding around a foam filling member, the filling member is provided to support the planted plants passing through the planting holes, two relative side concave portions set on an upper edge of each planting hole are provided for fingers to insert to place and take the filling member, the whole structure has an excellent ease of use.
Another object of the present invention is to provide an improved structure of a planting tray, two main flow channels are respectively set on two side of the planting tray, the main flow channel may be respectively communicated with multiple secondary flow channels and minor flow channels as required, to thereby form a structure with a wide range of applications for supplying various nutrient solution, to meet needs of different occasions.
The other object of the present invention is to provide an improved structure of a planting tray, which is mainly an internal hollow tray body that formed by blow molding and made of plastic materials. Therefore, the structure is stronger and it will wear for long-term use. Also, pores on its surface are smaller and less, so that scale does not remain and it is easy to clean, to facilitate reuse and reduce cost of use.
To achieve the object, features of the present invention include: a planting tray set on a predetermined channel component, multiple planting holes gradually narrow from one side to another side are evenly distributed on the planting tray, a foam filling member is placed in each planting hole, multiple relatively convex positioning protrusions are set on an inner side of each planting hole for holding around a foam filling member, so that the planted plants passing through the planting holes may supported by each filling member.
According to the above structure, two relative side concave portions set on an upper edge of each planting hole are provided for fingers to insert to place and take the filling member.
According to the above structure, two main flow channels are concavely set on two sides of the planting tray with a larger internal diameter respectively.
According to the above structure, wherein multiple secondary flow channels are set between the two main flow channels that respectively extended to sides of each planting hole, and each secondary flow channel is respectively communicated with each planting hole through multiple minor flow channels.
According to the above structure, the planting tray is mainly an internal hollow tray body that formed by blow molding and made of thermoplastic materials.
According to the above structure, wherein two engaging grooves are concavely set on two top sides of each channel component respectively, two engaging protrusions are relatively set on two sides of the planting tray with a smaller internal diameter, each engaging protrusion is provided to engage with each engaging groove, so that the planting tray is fixed and positioned on the channel component.
According to the above structure, wherein the side of the planting tray, on which the internal diameter of each planting hole is larger, is a reflective surface, sunshine/photosynthesis of plants may be increased by sunlight reflection, so that plant growth could be accelerated; in the actual implementation, white or light color is used as upper surface of the planting tray for increasing reflective effect, and dark color is used as lower surface of the planting tray for facilitating roots of plant growth.
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Two main flow channels 13 are respectively set on a surface of the planting tray 1 near the expanded opening 111, two engaging protrusions 12 are relatively set on two sides of the planting tray 1 near the contracted opening 112.
In a practical embodiment, a foam filling member 2 (it could be square shaped) is placed in each planting hole 11, the side concave portions 114 are provided for fingers to insert to place the filling member 2 in the planting hole 11 or take the filling member 2 out of the planting hole 11; when the filling member 2 is placed in the planting hole 11 from the expanded opening 111, because the internal diameter of the contracted opening 112 is smaller, the filling member 2 is prevented from slipping downward, and positioning protrusion 113 are touched peripheral edge of the filling members respectively, so that each filling members 2 is fixedly positioned in the planting hole 11.
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In a practical embodiment, two engaging grooves B11 are concavely set on two top sides of each channel component B1 respectively, each engaging groove B11 is provided to engage with each engaging protrusion 12 of the planting tray 1, so that the planting tray 1 is fixed and positioned on the channel component B1.
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In the planting tray 3, two engaging protrusions 32 are relatively set on two sides of a surface near the contracted opening 312, two main flow channels 33 are respectively set on two side of a surface of the planting tray 1 near the expanded opening 311, multiple parallel secondary flow channels 331 respectively extended to a side of each planting hole 31 are set between the two main flow channels 33, each secondary flow channel 331 could be communicated with each planting hole 31 through multiple minor flow channels 332.
In practical applications, the planting tray 3 is provided to set on a channel component B2, which is suitable for aerosol cultivation and its top is open, multiple planted plants P are respectively passed through the planting holes 31, the filling members 2 are used to touch around the planted plants P for supporting, so that each planted plant P could be kept upright and their roots are inserted into the channel component B2, a spray nozzle J for spraying nutrient solution L is set inside the channel component B2. When nutrient solution L is sprayed in the channel component B2, the planted plants P could absorb enough nutrients by roots; the main flow channels 33, the secondary flow channels 331 and the minor flow channels 332 are provided for nutrient solution L to flow, or for a predetermined dropper element to place, to perform drip irrigation for the planted plants P in the planting holes 31.
In a practical embodiment, two engaging grooves B21 are concavely set on two top sides of each channel component B2 respectively, each engaging groove B21 could be respectively engage with each engaging protrusion 32 of the planting tray 3, so that the planting tray 3 is fixed and positioned on the channel component B2.
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Above all, the improved structure of the planting tray of the present invention could achieve the purpose of lightweight, wearable, easy-to-clean, reusable effects, so it is an invention with novelty and progress, the inventor applies for patent. The above description is only preferred embodiments of the present invention, all of the expanded changes, modifications, alternations or equivalent replacement according to technical means and scope of the present invention should fall within the scope of the present invention.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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104219239 | Dec 2015 | TW | national |