DESCRIPTION
PAPERS INCLUDING CULTIVABLE PLANT/FLOWER SEED AND PRODUCTION
METHOD
This innovation is related with a method that can prepare the seeds of all vegetable types such as flowers, vegetables and fruits, wastes collected with the aim of recycling and/or unused papers, colorful unused papers ready for cultivating after a serial of special processes and the "seeds" produced with this method.
Some of the findings related with vegetable growing and/or increasing productivity and affectivity by using new technologies in agriculture-based food sector are presented below. The findings which also exist in institute records can be listed as:
"Composition special to intervention of soil or seeds to fitogagus micro-organisms."
Application numbered 78/19992
"Plant growing apparatus" Application numbered 2007/05830
"Make the entreated out-of use seeds useable" Application numbered 92/01168
"Growing fruit with less seed and genetic structures" Application numbered 1999/01389
"N-arilhidra2ona derivatives related with treatment of seeds" Application numbered
2007/08316
"Pyramid system accelerating the germination and development processes of plant seeds" Application numbered 2005/03419
"Protection to transfer and grow seed or onion similar vegetable materials" Application numbered 2008/08067
"Method to plant small seeds such as tomato" Application numbered 1998/01974
"Cup devices for seed germination" Application numbered 1999/01984
"Plant growing cup" Application numbered 2006/01998
"Multi-cell seed germination viol" Application numbered 2002/02160
In addition to these, the methods related with vegetable growing from seed are the subject of the findings below:
"Seed band including successively ordered germination units" Application numbered 2007/04881. The band described with this finding includes the successively ordered germination units and at least one carrier belt and it can be biologically separated on the subject belt. It has at least one subsidiary plate made up of flexible, non- woven or film-like material. Seed band of subject subsidiary plate is cut at a short distance through seed band. The seed band could be cut as separate germination units. "Seed belt" Application numbered 2007/02325. This innovation defines a seed belt including soil detected on a carrier belt made up of a flat material and adhesive or at least one biodegradable layer or successive germination units vertically embedded to a growing layer and at least one additive in addition to one or a couple of seed, an optional filling material, adjacent agents and a carrier mixture, additive or additives, water absorbers such as excessive absorbing polymers.
"Seed germination cup carriage apparatus" Application numbered 2004/00568. This innovation is related with the seed germination cap that is used to create a suitable
environment for the seeds until the seeds are germinated and become seedlings and the carrier apparatus used to carry this cup.
Different from the methods and applications listed above, with the innovation named "Papers Including Cultivable Plant/Flower Seed and Production Method", it is aimed to use waste papers as main materials without using any special machine or apparatus during production phase and by embedding all kinds of plant seed into the paper, produce environment- friendly seed cards ready for cultivation. The materials used for the production of seed cards are composed of completely recyclable waste paper and paper products and the seed card obtained at the end of production process is a product 100% degradable and not including any harmful chemical. The vegetables seeds it includes can be planted with the known seed planting methods and used for vegetable production with watering.
The compounds above don't have limiting feature. For example, the best practical solution for water is city water and rain waters, refined waters, valley-river waters, lake waters or fresh waters can be also evaluated within production process. Here the scale is that the water to be used should not carry a risk in means of health. All kinds of old and new papers, waste papers, used or papers retreated for recycling after being used, cartoon, paperboard, paper towels, cottons, cotton papers, dough papers can be also added to production process. Instead of kaolin which is stated as filling material, porcelain clay, powders, calcite, chemical fillings, clays, clay-originated and clay-like materials can be used. The materials used as colorants can be all kinds of dyes (powder and liquid dyes, paper, cloth, food, textile dyes, acrylic dyes, water-based paints, pigment dyes, plastic and oily dyes, all kinds of natural and artificial colorants) but it has been imported within this project to use products that don't include materials harmful to human health and non-polluting the environment (food and cloth dyes, water-based paints). Natural and artificial salts, vinegars and lemon are used for fixing the colors. Natural products are preferred as adhesives and all kinds of starches (corn, wheat, potato) are being used but tree and wood adhesives, paper adhesives or binding/combining materials can be also used. In order to keep wet paper dough ready for a while without being decayed, formaldehyde is used as dough protector. As addition and ornament materials, dry tree and/or dry tree leaves, dry vegetable and dry vegetable leaves, all kinds of leaves and yarns, natural products, colorful paper dough enabling grizzled look are used. The seeds to be embedded inside the dough can be vegetable, flower, tree seeds, aromatic seeds, vegetable- fruit seeds. There is no limit on the print techniques to be applied on seed cards. Serigraphic offset, offset, letterpress, all kind of ink presses, laser press, light press, glossy press, cellophane press, plastering press, mat/bright presses that can be applied on any paper type or cotton or cotton-mixed product can be comfortably applied on seed cards. The ordinary equipment used in daily life for the production of seed cards can be enough but these can be replaced with more professional equipment depending on the increase of production capacity.
Mold and mold frames Wood, metal and cast molds and frames
Sieves and Filters Metal, plastic or fiber wired sieves and filters
Sponges All kinds of sponges that can absorb the water in the sieve
Clothes Water and humid taking drying clothes and towels
Water flowing shells Inclined shells flowing water, flat or
channeled buckles, water absorbing machines
Drier yarns Yarns used for hanging drying as seed cards, clothes
Humid absorbing devices Auxiliary humid taking devices removing and drying the humidity in the environment
Presses Compressing wood and metal presses to
decrease the water of wet papers and flatten the dried papers
Sandpaper and sandpaper machines Materials to remove the roughness of final product
Reserve caps They enable the seed cards to be stored
without being harmed.
The equipment composing the content and used during production process of artificial/natural materials are used for seed card production with the application of method below:
• Papers are waited inside the water for 1 day (paper/water ratio: 1/20). (If the
production will take place in the same day, hot water is used). This mixture is mixed for 20 and 25 minutes with mixer and made dough.
• As filling material (in order to remove the roughness of the surface) 10% or 20%
Kaolin is added to the mixture. The material keeping the writing during offset or writing is Kaolin.
• If colorant will be used, dye material is used and salt + vinegar is added as color fixer (vinegar is not added to yellow and red colors) and the mixture is left to cool.
In order to combine and keep the fibers together, Starch at the ratio between 4% and 10% is added to the mixture by mixing with water and boiling in a cup on fire. t
• Later, the preferred seeds are added to this mixture.
• Before making the paper fibers layers with sieves, water is added according to the paper thickness and it is mixed (water adding ratios are presented in the table below).
• Depending on the thickness determined for seed card (while the paper layer gets
thinner, the dough amount is increased), dough addition is made. The water/paper ratios used here are presented at the tables below.
• Dough layers are obtained by sieving the water of paper fibers and the mixture at different dimensions, rectangular, square, circular, triangle or at certain scales sieves (35 cm x 25 cm- or 50cm. x 35 cm. -or 70 cm. x 50 cm. - or 100 cm. x 70 cm or bigger or small scale sieves.
• If the dough or extra dough obtained is not going to be consumed that day,
formaldehyde is added to the mixture in order to prevent decomposition.
• The mixture is subjected to drying. 2 alternative methods are applied here:
1) Drying at sieve: The mixture taken to pools through sieves is left to drying on sieves. The water stayed on the sieve is sieved by putting buckle or shelf material.
2) Drying between clothes:
The mixture taken from the pool through a sieve is waited on the sieves in order to be re- sieved. The sieved mixture is transferred to a second sieve wire as layer and a one more layer of sieve wire and cloth is put on it and it is closed from the bottom and up and the remaining water on the layer is taken. Later, compressing/flattening process is applied on the layer/layers between clothes with the wood and metal presses or rollers. For this process, a weight is put on the dough and it can be compressed. This process is done again on the other dry clothes. The paper layer out of press is dried and the roughness is removed with sandpaper.
• The remaining water of dough layer is taken through sponge on and beneath of sieves on the both alternatives. In order to provide a complete dryness, humidity devices that take the humid of environment can be used when necessary and later seed cards are hang on the wire and dried.
All press techniques (serigraphic offset, letterpress, and laser press, light press, glossy press, cellophane press, plastering press, mat/bright presses, all kinds of presses used in printing can be easily used.
Seed cards include different ratios according to paper gram. These ratios are presented in tables below:
MIXING AND CHOPPING MAIN DOUGH IS MADE AS 1 (WATER) 20 (PAPER).
It changes between l(Paper)/50 (Water) Ratio
And 1 (Paper)/ 1000 (Water) according to thickness ratio of wanted paper. DRY PAPER WATER (It.) WATER (It.)
KG 1-100 Ratio 1-110 Ratio
DRY PAPER WATER (It.) WATER (It.)
KG
1-120 1-130
1 120 9 LAYER 130 10LAYER
2 240 19 LAYER 260 20 LAYER
3 360 28 LAYER 390 31 LAYER
4 480 38 LAYER 520 42 LAYER
5 600 48 LAYER 650 52 LAYER
6 720 57 LAYER 780 62 LAYER
7 840 67 LAYER 910 72 LAYER
8 960 76 LAYER 1040 83 LAYER 9 1080 86 LAYER 1170 93 LAYER
10 1200 96 LAYER 1300 104 LAYER
1-140 1-150
1-160 1-170
10 1600 128 LAYER 1700 136 LAYER
1-180 1-190
1 180 14 LAYER 190 15 LAYER
2 360 28 LAYER 380 30 LAYER
3 540 43 LAYER 570 45 LAYER
4 720 57 LAYER 760 60 LAYER
5 900 72 LAYER 950 76 LAYER
6 1080 86 LAYER 1140 91 LAYER
7 1260 100 LAYER 1330 106 LAYER
8 1440 115 LAYER 1520 121 LAYER
9 1620 129 LAYER 1710 136 LAYER
10 1800 144 LAYER 1900 152 LAYER
DRY PAPER WATER (It.) WATER (It.)
KG
1-200 1-210
1 200 16 LAYER 210 16 LAYER
2 400 32 LAYER 420 33 LAYER
3 600 48 LAYER 630 50 LAYER
4 800 64 LAYER 840 67 LAYER
5 1000 80 LAYER 1050 84 LAYER
6 1200 96 LAYER 1260 100 LAYER
7 1400 112 LAYER 1470 117 LAYER 1600 128 LAYER 1680 134 LAYER
1800 144 LAYER 1890 151 LAYER
2000 160 LAYER 2100 168 LAYER
1-220 1-230
220 17 LAYER 230 18 LAYER
440 35 LAYER 460 36 LAYER
660 52 LAYER 690 55 LAYER
880 70 LAYER 920 73 LAYER
1100 88 LAYER 1150 92 LAYER
1320 105 LAYER 1380 110 LAYER
1540 123 LAYER 1610 128 LAYER
1760 140 LAYER 1840 147 LAYER
1980 158 LAYER 2070 165 LAYER
2200 176 LAYER 2300 184 LAYER
1-240 1-250
9 2160 172 LAYER 2250 180 LAYER
10 2400 192 LAYER 2500 200 LAYER
1-260 1-270
1 260 20 LAYER 270 21 LAYER
2 520 41 LAYER 540 43 LAYER
3 780 62 LAYER 810 64 LAYER
4 1040 83 LAYER 1080 86 LAYER
5 1300 104 LAYER 1350 108 LAYER
6 1560 124 LAYER 1620 129 LAYER
7 1820 145 LAYER 1890 151 LAYER
8 2080 166 LAYER 2160 172 LAYER
9 2340 187 LAYER 2430 194 LAYER
10 2600 208 LAYER 2700 216 LAYER
DRY PAPER WATER (It.) WATER (It.)
KG 1-280
8 2240 179 LAYER 2320 185 LAYER
9 2520 201 LAYER 2610 208 LAYER
10 2800 224 LAYER 2900 232 LAYER
1-300
1 300 24 LAYER
2 600 48 LAYER
3 900 72 LAYER
4 1200 96 LAYER
5 1500 120 LAYER
6 1800 144 LAYER
7 2100 168 LAYER
8 2400 192 LAYER
9 2700 216 LAYER
10 3000 240 LAYER
The seeds can be used for paper such as souvenir packages, invitation papers and envelopes, calendar and postal cards etc. and all paper-made products. It is possible to grow vegetable when the plant seeds included are contacted with soil or water and they are completely degradable in nature with their natural organic structure that doesn't include harmful chemical.