Abstract: A sprinkler comprises a nozzle, a turbine and a gear train reduction. The gear train reduction has an output stage that is coupled to the nozzle. The turbine is located between the nozzle and the gear train reduction and is coupled to an input stage of the gear train reduction.

Abstract: A sprinkler for irrigating turf and/or landscaping includes a turbine and a nozzle. A planetary gear drive and a reversing mechanism rotatably coupling the turbine and the nozzle. The planetary gear drive includes at least a portion of the reversing mechanism.

Abstract: A sleeve valve includes a rigid mandrel with a plurality of openings and a generally cylindrical elastomeric sleeve that surrounds the mandrel. A generally cylindrical rigid sleeve valve housing surrounds the elastomeric sleeve and defines a control chamber between the elastomeric sleeve and the sleeve valve housing. A pilot valve is mounted to the sleeve valve housing for supplying pressurized liquid to, and venting pressurized liquid from, the control chamber through a first passage formed in the sleeve valve housing. A filter screens debris from pressurized liquid entering an inlet end of the sleeve valve housing before it enters a second passage that communicates with the pilot valve.

Abstract: A sprinkler includes a nozzle and a cover configured for enclosing the nozzle. A hydraulically actuated mechanism supports the cover above the nozzle for reciprocation relative to the nozzle between a lower closed position and a raised open position.

Abstract: A flow back separator including a housing including a bore housing for communicating with a solid collection chamber, an inlet port for receiving formation fluid flow, and a helical member disposed within the housing bore for directing formation fluid flow received through the inlet port along a helical path wherein solids within the formation fluid flow are forced towards a wall of the housing bore under centrifugal force.

Abstract: A solenoid actuated pilot valve includes a pilot valve housing defining a pilot valve chamber and a solenoid. The solenoid includes and end cap connected to the pilot valve housing, a reciprocable plunger, and a piston having a shaft with a first end connected to and end of the plunger and a second end connected to a piston head. The end cap has a bore through which the shaft of the piston reciprocates and a first port separate from the bore. A first seal on a first side of the piston head is provided for sealing a first end of the first port. A second seal on a second side of the piston head is provided for sealing a first end of a second port in the pilot valve housing.

Abstract: A solenoid actuated pilot valve includes a pilot valve housing defining a pilot valve chamber and a solenoid. The solenoid includes and end cap connected to the pilot valve housing, a reciprocable plunger, and a piston having a shaft with a first end connected to and end of the plunger and a second end connected to a piston head. The end cap has a bore through which the shaft of the piston reciprocates and a first port separate from the bore. A first seal on a first side of the piston head is provided for sealing a first end of the first port. A second seal on a second side of the piston head is provided for sealing a first end of a second port in the pilot valve housing.

Abstract: A sprinkler comprises a nozzle, a turbine and a gear train reduction. The gear train reduction has an output stage that is coupled to the nozzle. The turbine is located between the nozzle and the gear train reduction and is coupled to an input stage of the gear train reduction.

Abstract: A fueling facility and method for dispensing liquid natural gas (LNG), compressed natural gas (CNG) or both on-demand. The fueling facility may include a source of LNG, such as cryogenic storage vessel. A low volume high pressure pump is coupled to the source of LNG to produce a stream of pressurized LNG. The stream of pressurized LNG may be selectively directed through an LNG flow path or to a CNG flow path which includes a vaporizer configured to produce CNG from the pressurized LNG. A portion of the CNG may be drawn from the CNG flow path and introduced into the CNG flow path to control the temperature of LNG flowing therethrough. Similarly, a portion of the LNG may be drawn from the LNG flow path and introduced into the CNG flow path to control the temperature of CNG flowing therethrough.

Abstract: A Pelton type turbine is mounted in a riser of a pop-up sprinkler for rotation about a horizontal axis and drives a central bevel pinion gear through a gear train reduction. Upper and lower bevel gears supported on a vertical drive shaft are simultaneously driven in opposite directions by the central bevel pinion gear. A clutch slides up and down along the drive shaft to engage radially extending teeth formed on its upper and lower sides with complementary teeth formed on the upper and lower bevel gears. One end of a yoke is coupled to the clutch and the other end is moved vertically by an over-center mechanism to shift the direction of rotation of a nozzle turret connected to the upper end of the drive shaft. The over-center mechanism is tripped back and forth by a shift disc engaged by a pair of tabs of a turret coupling assembly.

Abstract: An exterior portion of the nozzle with a top side viewable from above the turf or ground surface mates with a base portion of the nozzle to define a nozzle orifice and a flow path leading to the nozzle orifice. The base portion has at least one projection that extends through an aperture in the exterior portion and provides an indication that is visible when viewing the top side and that represents a water distribution pattern and/or flow rate of the nozzle orifice. The exterior portion of the nozzle defines an inner arc section of the nozzle orifice and the base portion of the nozzle defines an outer arc section of the nozzle orifice that is radially spaced from the inner arc section. An improved water distribution pattern is achieved without the spikes and voids associated with conventional spray nozzle orifices.

Abstract: A fueling facility and method for dispensing liquid natural gas (LNG), compressed natural gas (CNG) or both on-demand. The fueling facility may include a source of LNG, such as cryogenic storage vessel. A low volume high pressure pump is coupled to the source of LNG to produce a stream of pressurized LNG. The stream of pressurized LNG may be selectively directed through an LNG flow path or to a CNG flow path which includes a vaporizer configured to produce CNG from the pressurized LNG. A portion of the CNG may be drawn from the CNG flow path and introduced into the CNG flow path to control the temperature of LNG flowing therethrough. Similarly, a portion of the LNG may be drawn from the LNG flow path and introduced into the CNG flow path to control the temperature of CNG flowing therethrough.

Abstract: A frusto-conical strainer is mounted on the lower end of a pop-up riser for filtering out debris from water entering the lower inlet end of a surrounding outer housing to prevent clogging of the nozzle orifice or damage to mechanical components within a sprinkler. A cylindrical scrubber including a circumferential array of resilient arms is anchored at the lower inlet end of the outer housing. Wiper blades on the upper ends of the arms press against the outer surface of the strainer to scrape debris and algae therefrom as the riser extends and retracts. The strainer may have finer and coarser mesh sections for different levels of filtering in a sprinkler having multiple internal water flow paths. A plurality of circumferentially spaced projections on the strainer deflect past a plurality of circumferentially spaced ribs formed on the interior wall of the outer housing to provide a riser ratchet mechanism.

Abstract: A sprinkler includes an outer housing having a lower end connectable to a source of pressurized water and a riser that is vertically reciprocable within the outer housing between extended and retracted positions when the source of pressurized water is turned ON and OFF. A nozzle is mounted at an upper end of the riser for rotation about a vertical axis. A Pelton turbine is mounted inside the riser for rotation about a horizontal axis, as distinguished from a vertical axis. A drive mechanism connects the turbine to the nozzle so that when the source of pressurized water is turned ON the resulting rotation of the turbine by the pressurized water will rotate the nozzle. The turbine as well as a gear train reduction and a bevel gear reversing mechanism are assembled inside a self-contained clam-shell drive subassembly before being inserted into the riser.

Abstract: A fueling facility and method for dispensing liquid natural gas (LNG), compressed natural gas (CNG) or both on-demand. The fueling facility may include a source of LNG, such as cryogenic storage vessel. A low volume high pressure pump is coupled to the source of LNG to produce a stream of pressurized LNG. The stream of pressurized LNG may be selectively directed through an LNG flow path or to a CNG flow path which includes a vaporizer configured to produce CNG from the pressurized LNG. A portion of the CNG may be drawn from the CNG flow path and introduced into the CNG flow path to control the temperature of LNG flowing therethrough. Similarly, a portion of the LNG may be drawn from the LNG flow path and introduced into the CNG flow path to control the temperature of CNG flowing therethrough.

Abstract: A Pelton type turbine is mounted in a riser of a pop-up sprinkler for rotation about a horizontal axis and drives a bevel pinion gear reversing mechanism through a gear train reduction. One end of a yoke is coupled to a clutch and the other end is moved vertically by an over-center mechanism through a link arm to shift the direction of rotation of a nozzle turret connected to the upper end of a drive shaft. The over-center mechanism includes a pair of levers held together by a single coil spring with trunnions on a first lever pivoting in bearing surfaces of a second lever. An L-shaped actuating arm that extends from the second lever is tripped back and forth by a shift disc engaged by a pair of tabs of a turret coupling assembly.

Abstract: An adjustable stator is mounted in the lower end of a pop-up sprinkler riser and includes a vertically extending frame portion and a pair of valve portions that extend horizontally from an upper end of the frame portion. A coil spring is squeezed between a lower end of a drive subassembly and a mandrel mounted in a lower end of the frame portion. The mandrel and the frame portion have mating projections which allow the vertical position of the mandrel to be adjusted. This adjusts the downward biasing force exerted by the coil spring against the frame portion and the valve members carried thereby. This varies the pressure of a water stream flowing past a turbine in the riser, and the speed of rotation of the turbine which in turn changes the speed of rotation of a nozzle driven by the turbine.

Abstract: An adjustable stator is mounted in the lower end of a pop-up sprinkler riser and includes a vertically extending frame portion and a pair of valve portions that extend horizontally from an upper end of the frame portion. A coil spring is squeezed between a lower end of a drive subassembly and a mandrel mounted in a lower end of the frame portion. The mandrel and the frame portion have mating projections which allow the vertical position of the mandrel to be adjusted. This adjusts the downward biasing force exerted by the coil spring against the frame portion and the valve members carried thereby. This varies the pressure of a water stream flowing past a turbine in the riser, and the speed of rotation of the turbine which in turn changes the speed of rotation of a nozzle driven by the turbine.

Abstract: A Pelton type turbine is mounted in a riser of a pop-up sprinkler for rotation about a horizontal axis and drives a central bevel pinion gear through a gear train reduction. Upper and lower bevel gears supported on a vertical drive shaft are simultaneously driven in opposite directions by the central bevel pinion gear. A clutch slides up and down along the drive shaft to engage radially extending teeth formed on its upper and lower sides with complementary teeth formed on the upper and lower bevel gears. One end of a yoke is coupled to the clutch and the other end is moved vertically by an over-center mechanism to shift the direction of rotation of a nozzle turret connected to the upper end of the drive shaft. The over-center mechanism is tripped back and forth by a shift disc engaged by a pair of tabs of a turret coupling assembly.

Abstract: A Pelton type turbine is mounted in a riser of a pop-up sprinkler for rotation about a horizontal axis and drives a bevel pinion gear reversing mechanism through a gear train reduction. One end of a yoke is coupled to a clutch and the other end is moved vertically by an over-center mechanism through a link arm to shift the direction of rotation of a nozzle turret connected to the upper end of a drive shaft. The over-center mechanism includes a pair of levers held together by a single coil spring with trunnions on a first lever pivoting in bearing surfaces of a second lever. An L-shaped actuating arm that extends from the second lever is tripped back and forth by a shift disc engaged by a pair of tabs of a turret coupling assembly.