NZ754225B2 - Device for growing mushrooms - Google Patents

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a device for growing mushrooms, comprising a shelving, arranged for supporting beds for holding compost. The beds are placed at a distance above each other and are individually movable between at least a first position and a second position. In the first position a second bed supported above a first bed at least partially impedes the accessibility of the first bed in a direction perpendicular to the plane in which the first bed extends. In the second position at least a larger part of the first bed is free approachable from a direction perpendicular to the plane in which the first bed extends than in the first position. There is at least one pair of beds at or substantially at the same height supported by the shelving, which beds extend parallel to each other. The pair of beds are rotatable in opposite directions, and the side of a bed of the pair that faces the other bed of the pair goes upward when the bed is rotated from the first position to the second position, and the side of the bed that faces to the outside of the shelving goes down when the bed is rotated from the first position to the second position. This arrangement requires less force to rotate as the point of rotation of the bed takes place between the ends of the bed such that the bed is balanced, and the use of a pair of beds allows them to be dimensioned half as big as conventional beds to allow for easier picking, or the same size and require less shelving equipment to support the same bed surface.

Claims (15)

CLAIMS :

1. Device for growing mushrooms, comprising: - a shelving, 5 - arranged for supporting beds for holding casing soil and compost on a pulling net, and - said beds for holding casing soil and compost on a pulling net; wherein - the beds are placed at a mutual distance above each other; 10 and - the beds are mutually movable between at least: - a first position, wherein a second bed supported above a first bed at least partially impedes the accessibility of the first bed in a direction perpendicular to the plane in which the first bed extends; and 15 - a second position in which at least a larger part of the first bed is freely approachable from a direction perpendicular to the plane in which the first bed extends, than in the first position; wherein the displacement between the first position and the second position requires a displacement of the first bed only; 20 wherein there is at least one pair of beds at or substantially at the same height supported by the shelving, which beds extend parallel to each other, wherein the pair of beds are rotatable in opposite directions, and the side of a bed of the pair that faces the other bed of the pair goes upward 25 when the bed is rotated from the first position to the second position, and the side of the bed that faces to the outside of the shelving goes down when the bed is rotated from the first position to the second position.

2. Device according to claim 1, wherein the beds have a width between 0.5 and 30 2 meters, in particular between 0.6 and 1 meter, and more particularly between 0.65 and 0.75 meter.

3. Device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the shelving comprises at least one essentially vertical stand, and wherein the beds are supported by essentially horizontal beams supported by the vertical stand, and the beds are rotatably coupled to the beams.

4. Device according to claim 3, wherein, seen from the center of the device, a bed 5 extends further in a width direction from the rotatable coupling than a beam it is supported by.

5. Device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the rotation of a bed takes place around an axis in the longitudinal direction of the bed which axis is 10 situated at the underside of the bed, and is positioned in the middle in the width direction.

6. Device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the shelving supports two sets of beds, the beds of each set are placed at a mutual distance 15 above each other, wherein both sets extend in parallel to each other, and wherein there is at least one bed from the first set, that in a vertical direction at least partially overlaps with a bed from the second set, wherein movement of air with a vertical directional component is at least partially blocked between the bed from the first set and the, in a vertical direction at least partially overlapping bed from the second set, 20 when the bed from the first set and the bed from the second set are both in the first position.

7. Device according to claim 6, wherein air flow with a vertical component is almost fully to fully blocked between the bed from the first set and the, in a vertical 25 direction at least partially overlapping bed from the second set.

8. Device according to claim 6 or claim 7, wherein the two sets have the same amount of beds, and each bed of the first set has an adjacent bed in the second set. 30

9. Device according to claim 8, wherein air flow with a vertical directional component is blocked between each pair of beds.

10. Device according to any one of the preceding claims 6 to 9, wherein the air flow is blocked because the beds are arranged against each other in their first positions.

11. Device according to any one of claims 6 to 10, comprising a barrier for blocking the air flow, coupled to or mounted on the support, to one of two adjacent beds, to each of two adjacent beds or to both of two adjacent beds.

12. Device according to claim 11, wherein the barrier is a rigid part, such as a bar or a plate, or wherein the barrier comprises one or more flexible parts, such as a flexible flap. 10

13. Device according to any one of the preceding claims, comprising an essentially vertical barrier for preventing air on one or both sides of the parallel sets.

14. Device according to any one of the preceding claims, comprising a spindle for moving the beds between the first and the second position, wherein the spindle is 15 provided with an external coupling for a device for powering them.

15. Device for growing mushrooms according to claim 1, substantially as herein described in the detailed description. 3B1 3B2 6 3C1 6 3D1 3D2 3E1 3E2 I