US 12,302,813 B2
Plant pollination control structures
Stuart Carter, Scarborough (GB); Derek Paley, Scarborough (GB); Roland Stokes, Scarborough (GB); Hannah Senior, Scarborough (GB); and Maggie Temple, Scarborough (GB)
Assigned to PBS International Ltd, Scarborough (GB)
Appl. No. 17/638,228
Filed by PBS International Ltd, Scarborough (GB)
PCT Filed Aug. 28, 2020, PCT No. PCT/GB2020/052072
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 25, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/038245, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 4, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 1912432 (GB), filed on Aug. 29, 2019; and application No. 2009135 (GB), filed on Jun. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0312706 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. E04H 15/64 (2006.01); A01G 9/16 (2006.01); A01G 13/21 (2025.01); A01G 13/27 (2025.01); A01H 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC A01H 1/027 (2021.01) [A01G 9/16 (2013.01); A01G 13/21 (2025.01); A01G 13/27 (2025.01); E04H 15/644 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pollination control structure comprising:
a support that defines a frame of the pollination control structure;
a plurality of support fixings, each support fixing being attached to or integral with the support, and;
a barrier member including a plurality of barrier member pieces;
for each barrier member piece:
each edge of the barrier member piece is releasably attached to one of the support fixings, respectively, by an intermediate fixing that offsets the barrier member piece from the support fixing,
the barrier member piece is releasably attached to each intermediate fixing, and
each intermediate fixing is releasably attached to one of the support fixings;
each of the barrier member pieces being suspended entirely within openings defined between the support fixings, each of the barrier member pieces being arranged such that the barrier member pieces do not overlap any part of the support.