Patent ID: 11925156
Assignee: CULTIVATION SYSTEMS B.V.
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  B  Y | IPC A  B

Claim 27:
28. The method according to claim 26, wherein the grooves of the panel are partitioned into two or more sets of grooves, and a dispensing rate of a metering device is individually configurable for each set of grooves, and
wherein said filling the empty grooves of each of the panels with the substrate and the plants or the precursors thereof comprises:
filling the grooves of the panel with the substrate, and
dispensing the plants or the precursors thereof in the grooves while conveying the panel under the metering device along a longitudinal direction of the panel, the metering device comprising an individual dispenser for each set of the two or more sets of grooves, the dispensing rate at which a first individual dispenser of said individual dispensers dispenses the plants or the precursors thereof in the grooves associated with the first individual dispenser differs from the dispensing rate at which a different, second one of said individual dispensers dispenses the plants or the precursors thereof in grooves associated with the different, second one of the individual dispensers.