84 results about "Gardening product" patented technology

This invention relates to a novel method and apparatus for packaging and shipping horticultural products including cut flowers. More particularly, this invention pertains to a novel method of and packaging for packaging cut flowers in a modified atmosphere package to prolong shelf life, shipping the packaged flowers to the destination, and then at the destination, opening the package and rehydrating the cut flowers in the package by saturating the stems of the flowers with water.

In a method and apparatus for packaging a horticultural product, especially cut flowers, for transportation, one or more stems are inserted through a flexible foam block formed from a low density, low compression force material disposed in an opening of container such that the foam is compressed. The compression of the foam forms a water-tight seal around each stem to prevent water or other liquid inside the container from leaking during shipment of the horticultural product and insulates each stem from each other stem.

An apparatus for diagnosing a plant ailment and providing a formulation to address the plant ailment is shown and described along with a method of identifying a plant ailment, dispensing a formulation for the ailment and for applying the formulation to the plant are disclosed. The formulation dispenser is a multiple-component liquid and powder material dispenser with multiple pump types and reservoirs or canisters. All of the pumps are controlled by a central controller which also preferably includes substantial memory for a database containing a library of formulations associated with particular plant ailments. Samples of the sick plants may be scanned or digital photographs downloaded into the memory for diagnosis. Experts can be consulted over the internet or telephone for assistance in identifying an appropriate formulation. A limited quantity of the formulation is prepared for a single application and deposited in a recyclable container. The entire formulation is intended to be applied and the container disposed of thereby eliminating the presence of hazardous materials in the consumer's garage or garden shed. The dispensed formulations may be in granular, liquid or concentrate form.

In a method and apparatus for packaging a horticultural product, especially cut flowers, for transportation, one or more stems are inserted through a flexible foam block formed from a low density, low compression force material disposed in an opening of container such that the foam is compressed. The compression of the foam forms a water-tight seal around each stem to prevent water or other liquid inside the container from leaking during shipment of the horticultural product and insulates each stem from each other stem. A tube may be placed in the foam block to provide fluid communication between an interior of the container and an exterior of the container.

The tray comprises five independent parts which with the suitable construction and attachment to each other define the base (1), side walls (2) and end pieces (3), with the part corresponding to the latter provided with extreme extensions provided in each case with the folding line which gives rise to sectors (8), (9), (10), (11) and (12) which fold so that they superimpose on each other in an enveloping manner, forming triangular-prism shaped reinforcements at the corners, which reinforcements are provided, on either side of the corner and in correspondence with the upper edge of the corners, with ridges (15) complementary of slits (5) of the bottom of the tray, in order to stack the trays on each other. Said reinforcements which are part of end pieces (3) are formed before the parts reach the assembly station of the tray itself, which is meant to contain fruit and similar products.

An improved method and system for packaging horticultural products for transport is provided. An insert, which may be frusto-conical in shape, comprising a first and second open end is inserted into a larger vessel such that a watertight seal is formed between the first open end and the opening of the vessel. The insert thus defines a space between a sidewall of the insert and a sidewall of the vessel, and a space below the second open end of the insert above the base of the vessel. The space may be partially filled with a liquid in a volume such that when the vessel and insert is tipped or inverted, the liquid is retained within the space defined in the vessel. Also provided is a carrying case, which may be manufactured from paperboard or cardboard, for transporting the vessel and insert.

The invention discloses a fruit and vegetable gardening product quality safety tracing system platform based on Internet and Internet of Things. The platform is tightly connected with a fruit and vegetable production and marketing network, product two-dimensional barcodes and tracing codes are combined, production enterprise product brand propaganda, product information, production information, and health and health maintenance and recipe characters (videos) of related fruit and vegetable products are integrated, and the trust of enterprise products for customers is increased. The condition of production bases (parks and enterprises) and the field growing condition of fruit and vegetable products are presented to the consumers in the manner of online live broadcasting or historical planting videos and wonderful pictures through the technologies of Internet and Internet of Things, and each consumer can trace and check the quality safety of the fruit and vegetable products and visually understand the production real-time scenes of the enterprises, the fruit and vegetable production total-process videos, and health maintenance knowledge and healthy recipes of the related fruits and vegetables at home through the Internet.

The invention provides a low-temperature plasma method for keeping fresh of fruits and vegetables. According to the method, an apparatus for coupling low-temperature plasmas and a catalyst is utilized to perform cycling processing on ethylene in gardening product storage environment, so that the fresh-keeping period of fruits and vegetable such as bananas, cucumbers and the like are prolonged. Experiments confirm that plasma discharge processing has interference effect on metabolism of stored cucumber and has certain fresh-keeping effect on stored cucumbers; when a plasma reactor performs discharging processing on bananas for 2 h every day, the ethylene gas concentration in the environment is far higher than the ethylene gas concentration of a contrast group; and the ethylene accumulation speed in the environment is high than the ethylene gas degradation speed, therefore the destroy degree on banana pericarp cell membrane systems at room temperature is alleviated, green fading and yellowing of banana pericarp are inhibited, and fresh keeping is facilitated.

Embodiments of the invention relate to a cover, a method of covering, and a cover system to be used with shipments of products transported by air with ULDs. The dimensions of the cover system can vary depending on the ULD they are designed to be used with. The cover system can also be adapted to any individual skid such as wooden or plastic pallets used for smaller loads used in air transport or any other mode of transportation. The cover system can include one or multiple parts that wrap the shipment. Each part of the cover system can be made of one or more layers. Each layer can be made of a single material or a combination of different materials, and different layers can incorporate different materials. The different parts of the cover can be made of different materials or different combination of materials. In specific embodiments, materials used for the cover system are Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) friendly. The cover system provides thermal protection to temperature-sensitive products in or on the ULD. The cover system maintains the proper relative humidity level and gas concentrations (oxygen, carbon dioxide and ethylene) for horticultural product loads. The cover system can also have antimicrobial properties. In addition, the cover system decreases the amount of water vapor released in the cargo holds which is known to affect the reliability of the aircraft smoke detection system and to cause false fire alarms.

The invention provides a juicy peach storage method, comprising the following steps: sorting and pre-cooling the fruits in a house at 20 degree after picking up the mature juicy peach fruits; low temperature processing the fruits using program cooling method; inducing the fruit tissue cold-damage endurance capability using a certain low temperature; storing the fruits at low temperature. The fruits are processed by suitable low temperature and then stored at low temperature, thus the fruit respiratory rate, fruit metabolism, fruit ripening process can be effectively decelerated and the energy consumption can be also reduced, the fruit storage time can be prolonged, at the same time the occurence of the cold-damage of the soft melting fruits during storage period and fruit decayed rate can be reduced and the storage fruit quality and marketability can be kept. The storage method has features of reasonable design, convenient operation, lower device requirement and less cost and is suitable for large-scale operation and demonstration and generalization. The storage method also can be applied for other climacteric, chilling-sensitive horticultural products.

The crystal mud is gel matter prepared with sodium hydroxide partially neutralized acrylic acid, acrylamide, cross-linking agent N, Ní»-methylene diacrylamide dissolved in water and through adding oxidant and reductant to react at low temperature or normal temperature. It is colorless and transparent, color transparent or color semi-transparen, and has water absorbing capacity as high as 24-200 times self weight. It is suitable for use in planting flower, soilless culture of flower, garden product, etc owing to its relatively high decoration value. It is prepared with reaction monomer or reaction monomer and coloring agent as well as sodium hydroxide as neutralizing agent and through disc polymerization in short reaction time.

The invention belongs to the field of comprehensive utilization of horticultural products and relates to a method for producing fragrant and fruity persimmon leaf tea. The method comprises the following steps: 1) picking the fresh tender emerald green leaves of the persimmon tree without diseases and insect pests; 2) placing the fresh leaves into a tea kneading and cutting machine to be kneaded and cut, and repeating kneading and cutting twice to prepare the leaves into grains, thus obtaining the kneaded and cut leaves; 3) placing the kneaded and cut leaves with thickness of 15-20cm into a fermenting tray to be fermented under the conditions of temperature of 30-35 DEG C, relative humidity of 50-70% and stacking fermentation time of 12h to obtain fermented leaves; and 4) placing the fermented leaves into a dryer to be dried twice to obtain the finished persimmon leaf tea, wherein the first drying temperature is 100-120 DEG C and the water content of the persimmon leaves is 10-15%; and the second drying temperature is 80-90 DEG C and the water content of the persimmon leaves is 3-5%. The persimmon leaf tea is characterized in that the tea is strongly fragrant and fruity, the liquor is orange red or orange yellow, the taste is mellow sweet, etc. The persimmon leaf tea is suitable for mechanized production.

The invention relates to a plastic sucking molding method of flowerpots. The plastic sucking molding method comprises the steps of guiding a molded plastic sheet into an integrated plastic sucking apparatus for plastic sucking molding, and performing sheet roasting, vacuum plastic sucking molding, water cooling, mold splitting and cutting to obtained finished flowerpots; the raw material is an environment-friendly APET material and the plastic sucking method is adopted, and therefore, the materials used for garden products are increased and enriched and the process of producing the garden products is broken through, the grade of the products is increased and the production cost is reduced; the APET refers to a polyester sheet, is a thermoplastic environment-friendly plastic product and can be recycled, and the APET contains such chemical elements as carbon, hydrogen and oxygen and is degradable plastics; the obtained flowerpots are simple in structure and reasonable and convenient to mount, and the plastic sucking molding method is simple in process, high in molding efficiency, low in molding cost and high in yield.

The invention relates to equipment for manufacturing gardening products, in particular to equipment for manufacturing a steel wire gardening hook. The equipment comprises a working platform, a working base, a lug boss-shaped core mould and a steel wire conveying device, wherein an upper compression mould is arranged right above the core mould; a forming mandril group composed of mandrils is arranged below the core mould; hydraulic driving mechanisms of the upper compression mould and each mandril as well as a driving mechanism of the steel wire conveying device are respectively connected to acentral controller internally installed with a steel wire gardening hook forming program by means of electric execution units. By adopting the structure, a steel wire can be effectively sheared, and gradually pressed and reshaped into a qualified steel wire gardening hook, and no heating treatment is required; and the steel wire is subjected to one-step machining and shaping, so that the labour efficiency is improved and the danger is reduced; and a discharging conductor used for penetrating through and hanging the gardening hook is fixedly arranged on the surface of core mould parallel to the working platform, and a push rod is arranged on the working base close to the edge of the periphery of the core mould; and the equipment is capable of continuously processing material and discharging the products.

The present invention relates to a pesticide with surfactant of alkyl glucoside-derivatives blended into hydrogenated starch hydrolysate. Pesticide of the present invention, therefore, causes no concern about occurrence of pesticide-resistance, giving no adverse effect to agricultural and horticultural products, while working better to control harmful organisms at lower concentrations than conventional. Moreover, it is pesticide of environmental preservation type with better safety for humans and animals as well as ecological friedliness.

A dispensing system for dispensing gardening products includes a container for holding a selected gardening product and rotating means internal to said container for stirring the selected gardening product stored in the container. A dispersal aperture through the container disperses the selected product from the container after stirring. At least one dispensing system wheel external to the container and coupled to the rotating means is adapted to frictional engage a lawnmower wheel and thereby rotate the rotating means in response to rotation of the lawnmower wheel.

The invention relates to a preserving method for cut-flowers and belongs to the technical field of cut-flower preservation. The preserving method for cut-flowers comprises the following steps: inserting a cut-flower bottle into a preserving liquid for ultrasonic treatment for 10-50 min; and then suffocating the cut-flower bottle in a 1-methyl cyclopropene gas atmosphere for 8-30 h. According to the preserving method for cut-flowers provided by the invention, the fresh weight of the cut-flowers is reduced and the reducing degree of the water balancing value is reduced, generation of MDA in pedals is inhibited, decomposition of soluble proteins is alleviated, decrease of permeability of pedal membranes is delayed, the intactness of the cell membranes is better maintained, and the ornamentalvalue of the cut-flowers is improved greatly, thereby providing a new concept for postharvested delayed preservation of horticultural products such as peony.

A heavy-duty plastic bag for containing a granular product is provided with a pouring spout defined in a top corner thereof by a detachable corner portion. The detachable corner portion is formed by a perforated tear line profile formed in juxtaposition in a front and a rear wall of the bag. The tear line profile defines a first straight line segment extending downwardly from the top edge of the bag and angulated at an angle with respect to the top edge in the direction of a near one of the opposed side edges of the bag. The first straight line segment merges into a concavely curved transition segment to connect to a second straight line segment extending downwardly from the transition segment at an angle with respect to the near one of the opposed side edges and terminates at the near one of the side edges. The concavely curved transition segment has a length which is approximately 15% of the total length of the perforated tear line profile. The perforated tear line profile is formed by a constant and equal cut-to-uncut perforation ratio. Preferably, but not exclusively, the plastic bag is adapted to retain granular products such as coarse salt pellets, fertilizer, sand, lawn and garden products and a plurality of other granular products.

The invention relates to an exhibition stand, in particular to a double-layer carrying rod type gardening exhibition stand. The double-layer carrying rod type gardening exhibition stand comprises an arch-shaped support, connecting frames arranged on the two sides, connecting lugs arranged on the connecting frames, supporting carrying rods arranged in the middle of the support and supporting feet arranged at the lower ends of the arch-shaped support. Gardening exhibition flowerpots are hung on the connecting lugs on the two sides, the bottoms of the flowerpots are carried by the supporting carrying rods, and water drainage and ventilation of gardening products are facilitated. The exhibition stand is suitable for exhibiting the products and facilitates selection and appreciation; the exhibition stand is designed ingeniously and uniquely, the gardening products are well exhibited, the exhibition stand is attractive and firm, and exhibition space can be saved; the connecting lugs are columnar or tubular, so that connection is firmer; the connecting frames, the connecting lugs and the supporting carrying rods are arranged on the upper layer and the lower layer, the double layers of gardening products can be placed, and the exhibition stand is attractive and elegant.

A container for reducing deterioration of horticultural produce, including a parallelogram base member; first and second parallelogram side members, each extending substantially normally from respective opposed sides of the base member; first and second parallelogram end members, each extending substantially normally from respective opposed ends of the base member; and four webbings coupled between neighbouring end sections of side members and end members, wherein each webbing of said webbings includes inner and outer triangular sections having a common apex at the base member and wherein the inner triangular section of each webbing is foldable to overlie an external side of a respective one of said end members.

The invention discloses a high-polymer-material external spring spray gun, which comprises a gun body, a lower cover case and a handle, wherein the front end of the handle is connected with a piston cylinder, a piston is matched in the piston cylinder, the front end of the gun body is fixedly connected with a carding head through a head cap, the upper end of a trigger is provided with a reverse bent hook to realize lap joint with a concave pit formed in the middle part of the gun body, the middle part of the trigger is connected with an ejecting rod, the end part of the ejecting rod is provided with a lug boss and is rotationally connected with a concave mortar of the piston, a U-shaped spring is adopted, the branch end part of the spring is propped and pressed in a sunk pit formed in the back side of the trigger, the bottom of the spring is positioned outside the piston cylinder and is propped at the upper end of the handle, the bottom of the handle is connected with a bottle cap and a bottle, a sucking pipe is arranged in the bottle, the top of the bottle cap is connected with a marble seat, the marble seat is provided with a center step hole, the upper end of the sucking pipe is connected with the lower section of the center step hole, an upper end opening of the sucking pipe is a marble seat hole, a marble covers the marble seat hole in a separable way, the top of the marble sea is provided with a rib, the upper section of the center step hole is connected with the bottom of the piston cylinder, a passage is formed in the bottom of the piston cylinder and is communicated with the center through hole of the gun body, the front end of the through hole corresponds to the carding head, a gap is formed between the front end of the through hole and the carding head, and a thin sheet is arranged in the gap and movably covers the center through hole. The high-polymer-material external spring spray gun is used for products such as domestic gardening products.

The invention relates to a continuous band for producing bags for fruit and vegetable products, formed from a continuous plastic sheet (1) which has been die-cut to produce a series of small holes (3) which are closed using mesh or net fragments (4) fixed along the periphery of said holes by means of heat-sealing, gluing or any other conventional means. According to the invention, the area of the continuous sheet (1) intended to contain the handle is provided with a transverse patch (5) of pre-determined hardness in order to reinforce the area used to hold the bag once it has been filled, such that the thickness of the band-forming plastic sheet can be significantly reduced, specifically by a value of the order of 40%, without affecting the performance of the bag in terms of mechanical strength since the area in which the greatest strains are concentrated corresponds exactly to the area containing the handle.

The invention discloses a stable tree clamping and bundling component and belongs to the field of gardening products. When the stable tree clamping and bundling component reinforces a tree, reliable and time-saving effects are realized. The stable tree clamping and bundling component comprises top mortar, a plurality of same clamping plates, a cushion and a clamping nut; the inner curved surfaces of the clamping plates are sequentially and jointly bonded and connected by the whole cushion in the arc length direction; threads are formed on the outer arc surfaces of the clamping plates from top to bottom, and support frames, transversely-arranged pivot shafts and the mortar-shaped top mortar are arranged nearby the lower edges of the outer arc surfaces; fixed magnetic steel and movable magnetic steel are arranged on the end surfaces of a beginning end and an ending end of the clamping plate sequentially connected into a whole by the cushion; the movable magnetic steel is connected by a spring inwardly; the inner end of the spring is connected with the inner end of a spring hole in an embedding manner; the clamping nut is a nut equally divided into two halves; when the clamping plates and a composite connector thereof form a circle around a tree trunk, the equally-divided two halves of clamping nuts are clamped into the complete nut above the clamping plates, and the complete nut is connected onto the clamping plates in a screwing manner to form the stable tree clamping and bundling component. The stable tree clamping and bundling component disclosed by the invention is applicable to landscaping occasions.

The invention provides a method for maintaining a low temperature of a postharvest logistic microenvironment of waxberry fruits. According to the method, fruits which are uniform in size and consistent in maturity and have no mechanical damage are selected and placed in a cold storage for low-temperature precooling, a temperature control material is frozen for more than 24 hours at the temperature of subzero 20 DEG C, the waxberry fruits are placed in a logistic bubble chamber, then the temperature control material is placed in the chamber to maintain the low temperature, and the bubble chamber is sealed for logistic transportation. The method has the advantages that a relatively lower logistic temperature can be maintained effectively for the harvested waxberry fruits, the aging process is delayed, microbial activities on the fruit surface are reduced, fruit rot is reduced, and the quality of the fruit goods is maintained better. Meanwhile, the transportation cost, especially the cost for long-distance air transportation can be reduced due to reduced weight of a coolant when the waxberry fruits are transported with the method, the problem of humidity increase in the logistic microenvironment caused by ice bag breakage in an application process of common ice blocks can be solved simultaneously, and waxberry fruit rot can be reduced. The method can further be applied to other horticultural products which have no peels, are prone to rot and the like.

The present invention relates to a method for preparing a nitric oxide releasing tablet. The nitric oxide releasing tablet is prepared through uniformly mixing the synthesized adduct comprising polyamine and nitric oxide, solid acid and furnace-dried water absorber, comminuting and tabletting. The tablet can automatically release nitric oxide in damp environment and has the advantages of simple processing technique and suitability for industrial mass production. The tablet of the invention is suitable for storing and executing fresh-keeping to the fruits of yangtao, Feicheng peach, apple, strawberry, plum, etc., and the gardening products of vegetable, cut flower, etc., and the agricultural product.

The invention relates to the technical field of willow garden product processing and discloses a flame retardant treatment method for willow garden products. According to the flame retardant treatment method, a flame-retardant agent obtained through preparation is added to phenolic resin which is low in molecular weight, and dipping and hot pressing treatment is conducted on the willow garden products, wherein the concentration of the flame-retardant agent ranges from 0.2% to 0.3%. The phosphorus-based flame-retardant agent obtained through preparation is an expansion type flame-retardant agent, substances capable of capturing free radicals can be generated in the decomposition process, and thus a free radical chain reaction is cut off and the purposes of flame retarding and smoke inhibition are achieved; a polymer covers the surface of the willow garden products, so that a protective layer is formed, and the flame retarding effect is achieved; the problem that the phenolic resin can deteriorate mechanical performance of wood is solved; and in addition, the flame-retardant agent has the non-volatile characteristic. The flame retardant treatment method aims at solving the problem that the willow garden products are inflammable; the characteristic that the phenolic resin which is low in molecular weight is good in permeability to willow is utilized, and the novel flame-retardant agent is prepared; and mechanical performance of the willow garden products cannot be deteriorated while flame retarding performance of the willow garden products is improved.