SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURE OF CONTROLLED RELEASE OF AGRICULTURAL CORES

• Main Authors: SAMPLE Charles A, WIERSCHKE Larry D, AVGOUSTI Marios, GOROWARA Rajeev L, ADLER Scott A, ZHANG Jihua, BURCH Robert Ray, LEWIS Robert Alan
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: 15.06.2021
• 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. Se divulgan portadores para el soporte de una pluralidad de núcleos agrícolas sobre una pluralidad de soportes de núcleo para el recubrimiento mediante una película flexible. La pluralidad de soportes de núcleo puede incluir un pedestal para el soporte de un respectivo núcleo agrícola y una región de periferia de núcleo que tiene una pluralidad de elementos de puente que acoplan el pedestal a la estructura de conexión entre la pluralidad de soportes de núcleo. Los portadores pueden incluir un sistema de vacío que comunica independientemente un vacío parcial con una abertura en cada respectivo pedestal y una pluralidad de aberturas en la región de periferia de núcleo de un soporte de núcleo respectivo entre los elementos de puente.