Patents Represented by Attorney Peter Roper
  • Patent number: 4713909
    Abstract: A farm structure for growing plants or crop in a small area or increasing an area for farming, composed of several tiers of cloth, one above another, each cloth supporting a quantity of earth in which plants are growing; water used in watering plants on the uppermost tier, dripping downward successively through at the tiers, so to water the plants in each tier; extra layers of cloth snapped under any tier for greater water retention, flood lights under each tier, giving light to plants in a tier therebelow and warming a soil thereabove, and an elevator mechanism for lowering the tiers of a large outdoor model, so that harvesting can be done more efficiently at a ground level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1987
    Inventors: Peter Roper, George Spector