Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47G—HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
  • A47G33/00—Religious or ritual equipment in dwelling or for general use
  • A47G33/04—Christmas trees 
  • A47G33/12—Christmas tree stands
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47G—HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
  • A47G33/00—Religious or ritual equipment in dwelling or for general use
  • A47G33/04—Christmas trees 
  • A47G33/12—Christmas tree stands
  • A47G2033/1233—Christmas tree stands as insert for a plant pot
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47G—HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
  • A47G33/00—Religious or ritual equipment in dwelling or for general use
  • A47G33/04—Christmas trees 
  • A47G33/12—Christmas tree stands
  • A47G2033/128—Christmas tree stands for trees having a root ball
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47G—HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
  • A47G33/00—Religious or ritual equipment in dwelling or for general use
  • A47G33/04—Christmas trees 
  • A47G33/12—Christmas tree stands
  • A47G2033/1286—Christmas tree stands comprising watering means, e.g. a water reservoir

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a method for preserving plants with a large stem, in particular of the Christmas tree type, comprising introducing the stem of the plant into a container and immobilizing it in the container in a stable manner. upright position, as well as a regular supply of water. It also relates to a preservation device comprising a container into which the plant stem is introduced, this container being formed from a bottom, from which protrudes upward a peripheral envelope, and being open upwards, and retaining means capable of holding said rod in the upright position in the container, as well as means for stabilizing the container on the ground. The invention also relates to a support member used for such conservation.
• Containers which are provided with means for retaining the rod of the introduced fir tree. These means only allow the introduction of a cut fir tree through a limited opening passage provided in the center of the container. There, the rod is then wedged by means of wedging and the pot is stabilized by external stays of a large bulk.
• the plug or container when the tree is provided with a plug or a container, usually the plug or container is planted in a larger container and soil is added to fill it. You can possibly prop up the tree as much as you can, then add water to moisten the soil moderately without liquefying it. As soon as too much water is added, the soil no longer retains the stem of the fir tree, which risks tilting or overturning.
• the present invention aims to remedy the aforementioned drawbacks by the implementation of a method and a preservation device as well as a support member which allows to try to keep for a prolonged period, in the state fresh and vigorous, a plant with a large stem, in particular a Christmas tree, in the poor conditions of a house interior.
• the method and the device according to the invention must make it possible to eliminate the rapid drying out of Christmas trees and to do a great deal disappear the fire danger they represent.
• the mode and the support and fixing device must also be simple, even for weak people, and the device must above all be universal, that is to say adaptable to any type of tree, cut or no, with clod or container or just with the roots.
• the support member must be adaptable to most pots and plant containers used on the market.
• This problem is solved, according to the invention, by implementing a method as described at the beginning, this method comprising the attachment to the container of the rod in a manner adapted to its diameter, even when the rod is still filled of its roots, a clod of earth or a container, and the stabilization of the container by filling it with water which is used not only to feed the plant and keep it alive and fresh, but also to ballast the recipient.
• a device for preserving plants with a large stem in particular of the Christmas tree type, as described at the beginning, this device comprising, as retaining means, a support member consisting of two retaining elements, at least the first of which is provided with attachment means making it possible to detachably and / or detachably fix it to the container, and fixing means capable of connecting the second retaining element, detachably and / or removable, to the container or to the first retaining element, so that the two retaining elements are arranged on either side of the rod, as well as clamping means which subject the two retaining elements to forces of approach mutual, so that the stem of the plant disposed between the two retaining elements is tightened in a manner adapted to its diameter, that the stem has been previously cut at its base o u whether it is still furnished with its roots, a clod of earth or a container filled with earth.
• a support member which comprises two retaining elements, the first of which is provided with hooking means making it possible to fix it so detachable from any container, and fixing means capable of detachably and / or removably connecting the second retaining element to the first retaining element, so that the two retaining elements are arranged on either side of the rod, whether the latter is still outside the container intended to receive it or is already inside the latter, and whether the first retaining element is already attached to the container by its hooking means or not, and clamping means which subject the two retaining elements to forces of mutual closeness so that the stem of the plant arranged between them is clamped in a manner adapted to its diameter, that the stem has been previously cut at its base or that it is still furnished with its roots, a clod of earth or a container.
• FIG. 1 represents a top view of an embodiment of a preservation device according to 1 invention.
• Figure 2 shows a sectional view along line II-II of Figure I, on an enlarged scale.
• Figures 3 and 4 show a side view and a plan view of an embodiment of the holding member, provided at the bottom of the container.
• Figures 5 to 8 illustrate the universality of application of a device according to the invention.
• FIG. 9 represents a perspective view of a device according to the invention before the introduction of the rod.
• FIG. 10 represents a perspective view of a fir stem provided with a support member according to the invention before the introduction of the stem into a container.
• Figure 11 shows a top view of another embodiment of the device according to the invention.
• a device for storing large stem plants, in particular Christmas trees.
• This device comprises a container 1 into which the stem 2 of the plant is introduced.
• This container 1 is formed by a bottom 3 from which protrudes upwards a peripheral envelope 4.
• the illustrated container is of the plastic or metallic bucket or ceramic pot type, but it is understood that its shape and the material from which it is made is not critical.
• the container must of course be opened upwards to allow the introduction of the plant stem.
• the device according to the invention further comprises, in its embodiment illustrated in the aforementioned figures, a support member 5.
• this member comprises two retaining elements 6 and 7.
• the first retaining element 6 is provided with hooking means which make it possible to attach it detachably or removably to the container.
• these attachment means comprise elongated holes 8 provided at the ends of the retaining element 6, so as to allow an adjustment of the length of the retaining element 6 to the diameter of container 1 and lateral adjustment to the plant.
• the aforementioned hooking means further comprise hooking rods 9 threaded at one end and in the form of a hook 10 at the opposite end.
• This hook is designed to be able to bear from below on the rim 11 of a current container for plants and the illustrated shape of this hook is only given by way of example.
• the threaded rods 9 can be slid through the holes 8 and the above-mentioned hooking means further comprise wing nuts 12 which serve to tighten the retaining element 6 against the rim 11 of the container 1.
• the first retaining element 6, as illustrated in FIG. 1, is a bar made of a resistant material of any kind. Its length is at least equal to that of the upper opening of the containers commonly used for planting Christmas trees indoors. Instead of the elongated holes 8 described above, other common arrangements, known to the specialist, can be provided to adapt the length of the bar 6, such as for example a teiescopic arrangement (see FIG. 11). It is also possible, as illustrated in FIG. 1, for the bar 6 to be formed of two interlocking parts 6A and 6B (at 6C), so that the bar 6 can be placed at the bottom of the container when it is not in use .
• the second retaining element 7 of the support member of the device according to the invention is, in its embodiment illustrated in FIG.
• fixing means are provided for detachably and / or detachably connecting the bar 7 to the bar 6.
• These means comprise two rods 17 and 18 which project parallel to one side of the bar 6.
• These stems 17 and 18 are mutually separated by a distance greater than the usual maximum diameter of the fir stems to be stored inside. Their length is sufficient so that, when the fir rod is in abutment against the bar 6 between them, they still protrude at least slightly beyond said rod.
• the free ends of these rods 17 and 18 are threaded and are capable of sliding through perforations 19 and 20 provided correspondingly in the bar 7.
• the fixing means 17 to 22 simultaneously form the clamping means which, when tightened, subject the two retaining elements to forces of mutual approach, so that the stem of the plant disposed between them can be clamped in a way suited to its diameter.
• the bar 6 has, in the embodiment illustrated in Figure 1, a support area 13 for the rod 2 of the tree.
• This first support zone 13 is shaped substantially in the center of the bar 6 in the form of a lateral recess.
• the first support zone 13 in a plan view, has substantially the shape of an arc of a circle whose diameter corresponds approximately to the maximum diameter of the plant stems to be stored inside (see stem 2 A shown in lines mixed in Figure 1).
• This support zone 13 is also provided, at its bottom, with a vertical groove 14. In this way, when the rods have a diameter smaller than that of the rods 2A, they always have at least two points contact with the support area 13 (in Figure 1, see the rod 2B shown in solid lines and the rod 2C shown in broken lines).
• the support zone 13 can advantageously be provided with anti-friction means, such as for example a ribbing as illustrated in FIG. 9.
• the bar 7 has a projection 15, the top of which is provided with a recess forming a second support zone 16 for the tree stem.
• the height and width of this projection 15 are provided so that it can possibly penetrate into the recess forming the first support zone 13, when the bars 6 and 7 are tightened around a rod of small diameter, as the rod 2C.
• the dimensions of the projection 15 are however such that it cannot come into contact with the first support zone 13.
• the second support zone 16 is formed by two sections arranged perpendicular to one another by forming a V-shaped recess. In this way, this zone of support is always in contact with the tree stem at at least two points, in the tightening position of the stem. In this position, therefore, four contact points are always obtained between the support member and the shaft of the shaft, which makes it a very secure attachment.
• the support area 13 could also be V-shaped.
• a potential support area, supplémen ⁇ silence, 23 formed by a recess consisting of two inclined sides in the shape of a V.
• the support zone 23 is not hollowed out in a projection of the bar and can advantageously be used for large plant stems, by installing the bar 7 on the fixing rods 17 and 18 in the inverted position (see the position of the bar 7A shown in phantom in Figure 1). All these support zones 16 and 23 can naturally be provided, in a manner not shown, with anti-friction means, such as ribbing similar to that illustrated in FIG. 9 for zone 13.
• a holding member 24 in the form of a point on which the stem of the tree can be pricked, when a previously cut rod has been used.
• This member is not necessary in other cases, provision is made for it in a recess 25 in the bottom 3, into which it can be inserted and from which it can then be easily removed.
• the stabilization means of the device according to the invention consist of water, the upper level 26 of which is shown in FIGS. 5 to 8. The water therefore serves not only as a supply medium for the fir trees but also as a means to stabilize the container and therefore the tree planted inside the latter.
• the preservation device which has just been described will be implemented as follows:
• the bar 6 is attached in position at its two ends on the edge * of the container 1.
• the bar 7 is spaced sufficiently from the bar 6 by a gradual unscrewing of the nuts 21 and
• the rod is then introduced into the passage formed between the bars 6 and 7 and the two fixing rods 17 and 18.
• This process allows only the fixing of previously cut rods.
• the bar 7 is completely detached from the bar 6.
• the rod 2, still outside the container, is passed between the fixing rods 17 and 18 of the bar 6 then the bar 7 is screwed back on the rods 17 and 18.
• the whole is placed on the container, and the bar 6 is hooked again to the edge of the container by tightening the nuts 12.
• the container is filled with water and ballasted with it. This water is kept con- constantly at this filling level, such as that illustrated by the reference 26 in FIGS. 5 to 8.
• the support member 5 comprises a first retaining element in the form of a teiescopic bar. 6.
• the second retaining element is a spring 27, for example of the leaf type, which can be fixed, not on the bar 6, but on the upper edge of the container, by fixing means 28 of a known type , any.
• the clamping means is here formed by the spring itself, and simultaneously by the bar 6 which can be brought closer to the spring 27.
• the great advantage of a device according to the invention and of its support member is therefore to allow the placement of a fir tree in a container regardless of the state of its stem, with or without roots. It also makes it possible to use the tree feed water, as ballast for the device, which therefore remains relatively compact and very stable.
• a fir tree provided with its roots and supported in a preservation device according to the invention experiences a freshness and an entirely unusual vigor, which fir trees provided with some roots and a clod of earth and of which the earth is only humidified in a common way. Indeed, the latter, if they are adequately supplied with water, can continue to live for a certain time inside a dwelling. However, this feeding cannot be done under the conditions really required by a fir tree so that it is in perfect vigor and freshness, because then the feeding water liquefies so much the compost added in the container that it is not more capable of retaining only the fir tree introduced into the container.
• the fir tree was thus kept in the boiler room of his home, that is that is to say in the worst conditions that can exist.
• the device and the conservation method used also make it possible to reduce or eliminate the amount of earth displaced during the uprooting of the tree. This allows not to remove from the original soil quantities of soil which, in the long run, represents a significant factor in the depletion of this soil.
• fir trees without clods do not require a short cutting of the roots, as required to make the clod. More rootlets can accompany the tree delivered.
• the method according to the invention allows the fir trees to be stored inside under conditions of greater fire safety.
• a second retaining element in the form of an elastic clamp, which, instead of being fixed, like the spring 27 in FIG. 11, on the container, should be attached to the first retaining element. Provision may be made to add, to the feed water, a composition of additives suitable for the cultivation of the plant concerned.

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