US 11,730,098 B2
Plumbing arrangement for hydroponic growing system
Henry W. Adams, Evanston, IL (US); Craig Field Sampson, Lake Bluff, IL (US); Sergio Alonso Marquina, Clearwater, FL (US); Nicholas Daniel Phillips, Chicago, IL (US); Sullivan S. Stewart, Chicago, IL (US); Angelo E. Kelvakis, Chicago, IL (US); Brandon C. Bay, Chicago, IL (US); Enrique Lopez Salido, Deerfield, IL (US); Diego Alonso Blondet Padro, Evanston, IL (US); and Jason Matthew Domanski, Chicago, IL (US)
Assigned to Rise Gardens Inc., Skokie, IL (US)
Filed by Rise Gardens Inc., Skokie, IL (US)
Filed on Sep. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/940,647.
Application 17/940,647 is a division of application No. 16/705,731, filed on Dec. 6, 2019, granted, now 11,470,790.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/873,764, filed on Jul. 12, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0000031 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. A01G 31/06 (2006.01); A01G 9/02 (2018.01); A01G 9/24 (2006.01); G06Q 50/02 (2012.01); G06Q 50/06 (2012.01); A01G 31/00 (2018.01)
CPC A01G 31/06 (2013.01) [A01G 9/02 (2013.01); A01G 9/247 (2013.01); G06Q 50/02 (2013.01); G06Q 50/06 (2013.01); A01G 2031/006 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tray for a hydroponic system, comprising:
a tray floor having a main region configured for placement of plants, and the tray being rectangular in shape, having a pair of shorter sides and a pair of longer sides;
walls enclosing the tray floor;
a drain opening in the tray floor;
a dam separating the drain opening from the main region of the tray floor and raised from the main region of tray floor and including a lowered region configure to act as a weir region to set a water height in the tray;
a second opening in drain floor, the second opening raised a height from the main region of the tray floor by an amount greater than that which the dam is raised above the main region of the tray floor, where the drain opening and the second opening are located in a region of the tray on a first side of the main region of the floor, the first side being one of the shorter sides; and
a lateral barrier raised from the main region of the tray floor a greater amount than the height of the second opening, separating the drain opening from the second opening, and extending from the first side towards an opposing shorter side, but with a gap between the lateral barrier and the opposing short side.