Method of preparing zoysia sod for packaging and shipment

Details Method of preparing zoysia sod for packaging and shipment Method of preparing zoysia sod for packaging and shipment

1976-10-14

1977-12-20

Eickholt, E. H.

Plant husbandry

Process

83 3, 83 5, 83 13, 83 23, 83 39, 56DIG2, 47 56, A01B 7900

Patent

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040633853

ABSTRACT:
Sod is removed from the field in standard width strips and the strips are cut into equal length sections. Excess moisture, when present, is removed from the sod prior to delivering the sod sections to an apparatus which removes excess soil from the bottom of the sod to reduce weight and form a product of uniform thickness. The sod sections are then delivered soil side up to a scoring and trimming apparatus which trims each section to an accurate length and scores the sod partly through the root structure longitudinally and transversely to form a plurality of equally-sized rectangular plugs in each sod section which can be easily separated by a user. Prior to the second scoring operation, pairs of sod sections are placed on moisture-absorbing trays and following the second scoring, plural layers of processed sod sections and intervening trays are placed in superposed relation in a shipping carton having a moisture-impermeable liner. Moisture held in the absorbent trays is gradually given back to the living sod during shipment.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1248540 (1917-12-01), Peterson
patent: 2358000 (1944-09-01), Cornell
patent: 2876588 (1959-03-01), Tietz et al.
patent: 3064801 (1962-11-01), Linnell
patent: 3154884 (1964-11-01), Amar et al.
patent: 3519082 (1970-07-01), Miner
patent: 3887013 (1975-06-01), Helberg

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