SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURE OF CONTROLLED RELEASE OF AGRICULTURAL CORES

• Main Authors: LEWIS, ROBERT ALAN, SAMPLE, CHARLES A, ADLER, SCOTT A, BURCH, ROBERT RAY, AVGOUSTI, MARIOS, ZHANG, JIHUA, WIERSCHKE, LARRY D, GOROWARA, RAJEEV L
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 07.05.2020
• Subjects: CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; CONVEYING; FERTILISERS; FERTILISERS CHARACTERISED BY THEIR FORM; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; MANUFACTURE THEREOF; METALLURGY; MIXTURES OF FERTILISERS COVERED INDIVIDUALLY BY DIFFERENTSUBCLASSES OF CLASS C05; MIXTURES OF ONE OR MORE FERTILISERS WITH MATERIALS NOT HAVINGA SPECIFIC FERTILISING ACTIVITY, e.g. PESTICIDES,SOIL-CONDITIONERS, WETTING AGENTS; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS; PRESSES; PRESSES IN GENERAL; SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS; STORING; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS; TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING; TRANSPORTING

Carriers are disclosed for supporting a plurality of agricultural cores on a plurality of core supports for coating by a flexible film. The plurality of core supports may include a pedestal for supporting a respective agricultural core and a core periphery region having a plurality of bridge elements which couple the pedestal to the connecting structure between the plurality of core supports. The carriers may include a vacuum system that independently communicates a partial vacuum to an aperture in each respective pedestal and a plurality of apertures in the core periphery region of a respective core support between the bridge elements. L'invention concerne des supports permettant de porter une pluralité de noyaux agricoles sur une pluralité de supports de noyaux afin d'effectuer un revêtement par un film souple. La pluralité de supports de noyaux peut comprendre un socle permettant de porter un noyau agricole respectif et une région de périphérie de noyau comportant une pluralité d'éléments pont destinés à accoupler le socle à la structure de liaison entre la pluralité de supports de noyaux. Les supports peuvent comprendre un système à vide destiné à mettre en communication indépendamment un vide partiel avec une ouverture dans chaque socle respectif et avec une pluralité d'ouvertures dans la région de périphérie de noyau d'un support de noyau respectif entre les éléments pont.