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Modular epoxied foam Speedbox construction. Built on site using a grader or bulldozer, and three flatbed semi trailers, one trailer carrying the foam making and cutting and epoxy equipment, another the assembly area conveyor belt, and the third a conveyor oven. This box should retail for around $400 (for just the box without the pallets and manifolds), assuming that it is built as one of a package of ten boxes.
Also introduction of the quick disconnect fittings. A 3/4 inch hole is drilled in the completed manifolds 1 1/4 inches deep, and the bit is removed. Then a 1/2 inch bit with a 3/4 inch guide is used to drill into the water / aeroponic tube bearing end crossmember. A foam water filter cube will have to be added between the end of the water bearing crossmember and the first tube during manufacturing to protect the tubes from these later drill shavings.
Once drilled, using a 3/4 inch guide tool, the tapered fitting is epoxied into the drilled hole.
For the supply pipe, the rubber toroid is epoxied and pressed into the end cap, and the smaller diameter PVC pipe is epoxied or PVC cemented, and rammed down onto the toroid in a press and kept there until set.
Not shown yet are the clamp wedges that will force the supply pipes onto the tapered inlets and maintain the pressure, locking the supply pipes into the engaged position.
The main supply pipes have been moved from the top of the Speedbox to the sides. The supply inlet pipes run through the walls of the Speedbox and dock with the tapered manifold inlets. Not shown yet is a modification to the pallets and boxes to add a key, so that the pallets will always be fit into the boxes with perfect alignment of the inlets and inlet holes.
Not shown yet, screens are needed to keep out pests in the aeration / drainage passages at the bottoms of the sides. These passages are critical for supplying oxygen to the roots and allowing drainage.
Not shown yet are the slide clamps at the top to retain the pressure wedges in place and retain the pallets into the Speedbox against the wind. Not shown yet are the side supply pipes.
The cross and tee method was chosen in an attempt to minimize wasted or unused cut foam. The stack will be manually built while the foam is still wet, before the epoxy sets, using a Teflon coated mold, and then sent into the oven, and when set, ground or filed true if required.
During harvest with a Speedbox combine, the combine can operate at a speed of two side by side pallets every 60 to 120 seconds, and still attain the same rate of production as an open land farming combine: 10 to 20 times as much produce per square foot in the Speedbox vs. open land farming means the combine can dwell over a pair of pallets 10 to 20 times longer than it takes an open land farming combine to cross 5 feet of distance (6 seconds).
The clamps are retracted, the water inlets are retracted, and the pair of pallets is lifted out of the Speedbox. Not shown yet are fork ramps in the manifolds and screens to allow entry of four separation forks per pallet stack, to separate the top manifolds from the bottom screens about 1/8 inch.
Once separated, a blade will slice the roots off between the upper manifold and lower screen, the roots will fall into the bottom of the box, and the pallets can then be lifted into the combine to be harvested and further separated and processed, cleaned, replanted, and set back down in place.
The combine can make new replacement root mat from the freshly cut roots and install it between the screens. The old root mats and excess roots will be stored in the combine until it reaches the end of the row, then transferred to a truck to be sent to be mixed with immature densely grown corn for silage production, because man does not live on Speedbox crops alone: he also likes to eat silage-fed cattle.
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Very stupid
koz303303 1 year ago
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TerraformingMaster 1 year ago