Mjnn LLC

Loren Raymond Pilorin

Michael Peter Flynn

Alexandre Le Roux

Gage Goodspeed Coffin

Anna Olson

Alan Colbrie Schoen

Andrew Keith James

Theodore Howe St George

Nicholas Robert Kalayjian

Brice Leon Klein

Nadav Sahar Hendel

Michael Bennett Hamilton

Arvind Sankaran

Tamara Tahir Hasoon

Maria Alexandria Malone

Allison Marie Maclellan

Casey Bennet Call

John Whitworth

Danielle Meredith Fallon

Facility layouts and configurations for an automated crop production system for controlled environment agriculture. In particular implementations, the core of the facility comprises a controlled growth environment and a central processing system. The controlled growth environment includes systems for exposing crops housed in modules, such as grow towers, to controlled environmental conditions. The central processing system may include various stations and functionality both for preparing crop-bearing modules to be inserted in the controlled growth environment, for harvesting crops from the crop-bearing modules after they have been extracted from the controlled growth environment, and for cleaning or washing crop-bearing modules for re-use. The controlled growth environment may include vertical farming structure having vertical grow towers and associated conveyance mechanisms for moving the vertical grow towers along one or more grow lines. The conveyance mechanisms may include a return transfer mechanism that creates a return or u-shaped path for each grow line.

Production facility layouts for automated controlled environment agriculture

An irrigation system for a vertical farming structure having vertical grow towers and associated conveyance mechanisms for moving the vertical grow towers through a controlled environment, while being exposed to controlled conditions, such as lighting, airflow, humidity and nutritional support. The present disclosure describes a grow tower conveyance system that moves vertically-oriented grow towers to select positions along a grow line. An irrigation line having apertures at the select positions provides aqueous nutrient solution to the grow towers, while a gutter structure captures excess solution. In a closed loop system, the excess solution returns to a recirculation tank.

Irrigation system for vertical grow tower crop production facility

A plant harvesting system for use with a vertical hydroponic tower, the hydroponic tower containing a plurality of vertically aligned plants. The harvesting system includes a payload transport system and a harvester. The payload transport system, which is configured to be positioned at a location adjacent to the hydroponic tower, includes a base and a lift tower, the lift tower including a motorized lift system configured to move the harvester upward and downward. In addition to cutting plant stalks while moving upwards along the face of the hydroponic tower, the harvester also groups and collects the plant leafs.

Vertical hydroponic tower harvesting system

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Loren Raymond Pilorin