Patent ID: 9260685
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: C12M

Claim Text:
1. A cultivating system, comprising: a modular load-bearing structure having a top portion with at least two rims transverse to each other and defining a top plane, and a bottom portion, the load bearing structure comprising galvanized steel or stainless steel and being in the form of a gridded structure or a perforated plate, and one or more of the at least two rims comprising slidably interconnected concentric rim sections; a tank adapted for receiving therein a growing medium and for cultivating therein aquatic organisms, said tank comprising two or more sidewalls made of a transparent flexible sheet that comprises a synthetic polymer and allows at least 75% light transmittance therethrough, each sidewall attached to one of the rims of the top plane and extending between one of the at least two rims of the top portion and said bottom portion such that the tank is suspended within the load bearing structure comprising gridded carrier walls for holding the tank, such that in at least one cross-section taken along a plane perpendicular to said top plane, at least two of the sidewalls form a general V-shape converging towards said bottom portion; and a gas emitting arrangement linkable to a source of pressurized gas and comprising gas emitting nozzles disposed within the tank at said bottom portion.