Greenhouse screen

• US 4,761,913 A
• Filed: 09/29/1987
• Issued: 08/09/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ludvig Svensson Internatona BV Marconiweg 2 Nl-3225 LV Hellevoetsluis Nederlanderna
• Original Assignee: Ludvig Svensson International B.V.
• Inventors: Hellgren, Olof, Henningsson, Goran
• Primary Examiner(s): CANNON, JAMES
• Application Number:
  US07/102,570
• Time in Patent Office: 315 Days
• Field of Search: 47/17, 66/192, 66/202, 139/420 A, 139/420 R, 160/66, 160/84 R, 350/1.7, 428/226, 428/229, 428/912.2, 428/913, 523/135
• US Class Current: 47/17
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 2009/1453 containing textile products
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 2009/1461 containing woven structures
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 9/1438 Covering materials therefor; Materials for protective coverings used for soil and plants, e.g. films, canopies, tunnels or cloches
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 40/25 Greenhouse technology, e.g. cooling systems therefor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 428/913 Material designed to be responsive to temperature, light, moisture
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/3041 Woven fabric comprises strips or ribbons only
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/425 Including strand which is of specific structural definition

Abstract

Greenhouse screen for use as a filter for short-day treatment of plants and made of a film, textile, non-woven material or a combination thereof with high light resitance and good weathering conditions. The greenhouse screen at least partly consists of a material which in one or more layers has high absorption of light in a significant part of the wavelength interval 575-800 nm and with substantially total absorption in the wavelength interval 600-750 nm and which has high transmittance of light in the wavelength interval 400-575 nm.

Claims

1. Greenhouse screen, for use as a filter for short-day treatment of plants and made of a film, textile, non-woven material or a combination thereof with high light resistance and good weathering characteristics wherein:

said greenhouse screen at least partly consists of a material which in one or more layers has high absorption of light in a significant part of the wavelength interval 575-800 nm, and with a substantially total absorption in the interval 600-750 nm, and which has a high transmittance of light in the wavelength interval 400-575 nm.

2. Greenhouse screen according to claim 1, wherein said material is in the form of narrow strips connected to each other, providing a fabric by a weaving or knitting technique.

3. Greenhouse screen according to claim 2, wherein in addition said sunshine absorbing material, one of highly reflecting, low emittance film material and strip of white film is included in a backing for the material.

4. Greenhouse screen made by weaving according to claim 2, wherein there is a weave warp including said material strips, and a weft including one of thin threads of synthetic textile material, thin threads of the same material as the warp, and thin threads of white film strips.

5. Greenhouse screen according to claim 4, wherein the highly reflecting film material is limited to one side, while the other side is a heat radiation absorbing layer.