Patent ID: 7181886
Filing Date: 2007-02-27
Classification: A01G,Y02P

Abstract:
1. An orbital hydroponic/aeroponic unit comprising: a housing contained within a structural frame; said housing defined by a pair of fixed rings, one situated at each longitudinal ends of said housing, and a shell; a rotating ring contained within each fixed ring; outer diameter of each fixed ring being held together by way of a shell: a drum inside said housing defining a chamber; a roots compartment defined as space between the inside of said shell and the outside of said drum; a hatch configured and sized to fit within an inner opening of said rotating ring to seal said chamber and provide access to it; a light source container at the center of said hatch containing a light source; said housing having several openings comprising an air intake port; an air outlet port to provide circulation to incoming air nutrients intake port directed at said roots compartment; chamber nutrients intake port to provide nutrients inside said chamber; said hatch having a hinge structure to hingedly attach said hatch to said fixed ring; said shell being applied onto tie rods and tightening nuts on filleted ends of said tie rods presses said fixed rings against said shell which is guided into grooves carved into the interior face of said fixed rings and messed on O-rings.