A wire trellis lock that can quickly be affixed a plethora of different sized horizontal trellis wires, and can accommodate connection to a range of plant trunk sizes so as to prevent the bending or blowing over of the plant. The trellis lock is made of few components, basically a trellis lock body, at least one speed strap, and a wing nut. The trellis lock body has an insert affixed on its back face to prevent scarring to the trunk of the plant. In use, the horizontal trellis wire of a nursery is frictionally locked to the trellis lock between the trellis lock body and a flange on the wingnut. The trellis lock body secured to the trellis wire is affixed to the truck or stalk of a plant by at least on elastic speed strap.

An elongated touch fastening strip of flexible material has mutually engageable touch fastener elements carried on the faces of the flexible material to releasably fasten overlapping portions of the fastener material together with the fastening strip wrapped about an object. The strip has a head end that extends asymmetrically toward one side of the fastening strip to form a lateral tab that can be gripped while the strip is wrapped about an object, such as to support growing plants.

A tape winding body on which a binding tape is wound, the tape winding body to be loaded on a binding machine for binding a to-be-bound object using the binding tape, includes a tape member formed to have a hollow cylindrical shape whose center is a central axis and having an inner wall surface, an outer peripheral surface and one end face connecting the inner wall surface and the outer peripheral surface and facing toward a direction of the central axis, and a flexible protrusion protruding from the inner wall surface toward the central axis by 1 mm or greater.

A staple including a body part that is formed from a flexible wire rod and that opens in a first direction, a first leg part that extends continuously from a first end section on one opening side of the body part, and a second leg part that extends continuously from a second end section on the other opening side of the body part, the first leg part having a first section that curves and extends outward, and a second section that curves from the first part and extends in the first direction, and the second leg part having a third section that extends in the first direction, and a fourth section that is bent outward from the tip-end part of the third section, the third section being longer than the second section.

Provided are a greenhouse automatic vine dropping robot and a vine dropping method. The vine dropping robot includes a mobile chassis, a lifting mechanism, a control cabinet, a front mechanical arm, a rear mechanical arm, an electric gripper, a light curtain sensor, and an optoelectronic switch. The control cabinet and the lifting mechanism are installed on the mobile chassis, and the two mechanical arms are fixed to a surface of a top platform of the lifting mechanism. The electric gripper is installed at a tail end of each of the two mechanical arms, the optoelectronic switch is arranged at a top end of a main shaft of the front mechanical arm, and the light curtain sensor is installed on the gripper at the tail end of the mechanical arm. The robot is suitable for greenhouse crops in the form of hooked-based vine dropping.