Plant husbandry – Tree trunk supporting base with liquid reservoir
Patent
1989-01-27
1991-09-17
Chilcot, Jr., Richard E.
Plant husbandry
Tree trunk supporting base with liquid reservoir
A47G 3312
Patent
active
050482300
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a method for conserving plants having a trunk of a large dimension, particularly of the Christmas tree type, comprising the introduction of the trunk of the plant into a receptacle and its immobilization in a stable manner in the receptacle, in a set up position, as well as a regular water supply. It also concerns a conservation device comprising a receptacle in which the trunk of the plant is introduced, the receptacle being formed by a bottom, from which a peripheral casing juts out upwardly, and being open upwardly, and retaining means which are able to maintain said trunk in a set up position in the receptacle, as well as means for stabilizing the receptacle on the soil. The invention also concerns a support member to be used for such a conservation.
One of the drawbacks of Christmas trees is well known, they dry up quickly, their needles then fall on the ground and their use inside is thus of short time. On the other hand, it concerns plants sometimes of large dimensions which are difficult to introduce into a receptacle, such as a pot, and above all to be maintained in a set up position.
Receptacles are known which are provided with means for retaining the trunk of the fir introduced therein. Those means only enable the introduction of the cut trunk of the fir through a passage having a limited aperture foreseen in the middle of the receptacle. There the trunk is then blocked by means of blocking means and the pot is stabilized by external stays taking a lot of place.
Those receptacles do not enable the introduction of the trunk of the fir provided with its roots, a lump of earth or a container filled with earth. The introduction of the trunk into the central passage of the pot is not easy when the fir has a large weight and usually several persons are required in order to perform that operation. Finally, the used receptacle has a dedicated and obligatory form and not every pot can be used for that purpose.
On the other hand, when the fir is provided with a lump or with a container, usually the lump or the container is planted into a larger receptacle and earth is added in order to fill it. Eventually the fir is stayed as much as possible and then water is added in order to lightely moisten the earth without liquifying it. As soon as too much water is added, the earth will not longer retain the trunk of the fir which could then bend or fall down.
Under those conditions, it is thus impossible to correctly supply water to that fir, which explains its quick dry up, particularly when it is submitted to very bad climatic conditions of a heated interior of a living room or a reception hall, a.s.o.
On the other hand, it has been observed that when only put into water, the trunk which is not provided with its roots could present an aspect of improved freshness for a little longer than the trunks put into moistened earth. Although this improvement is of short time and in any way unsufficient, because, like cut flowers put into water, the firs of which the trunk is cut jeopardy after a certain time.
Finally, the sales of firs with a lump of earth or a container is not an environment friendly solution because it degrades and let quickly disappear the soil from which the firs are extracted.
It is an object of the present invention to find a solution for those drawbacks mentioned herebefore by making use of a method and a conversation device as well as a support member which enable to conserve during a longer period and in a fresh and vigourous state, a plant having a larger trunk, particularly a Christmas tree, in the bad conditions of the interior of a home. The method and the device according to the invention must enable to eliminate the quick dry up of the Christmas trees and to let in a large way disappear the danger of fire which they represent. The method and the device for supporting and fixing must among other be simple, even for not so strong persons, and the device must above all be universal, that is to say adaptable to any type of fir, cut or not, with a lump of earth
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Chilcot Jr. Richard E.
Van Patten Michele A.
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