Abstract: A boom for the supply hose of a fluid used in a car wash is rotatable around a vertical axis in a horizontal plane. Flexibilty of the boom out of the horizontal plane is provided by a spring wire having a loop turned through more than 360.degree. partway along the length of the wire with a leveller device engaging upper edges of inner and outer portions of the wire on either side of the loop and an underside of the inner turns of the loop so as to hold down the outer portion of the wire and locate the boom in the required horizontal plane. Rotation in one embodiment is provided by a vertical portion at the inner end of the wire mounted within a suitable bearing and provided with a coil spring acting to bias the boom to a required angular orientation around the vertical portion of the wire. In a second embodiment for use with 360.degree.

Abstract: A low cost sprayer and method of using the sprayer is disclosed. The sprayer is formed with a length of flexible tubing having an inlet end and a tubing outlet end. A nozzle is secured to the outlet end of the hose in a manner to provide a predetermined flow pattern upon rotation of the tubing and nozzle. In use, the inlet end of the tubing is placed within an agricultural chemical containing tank and a predetermined length of the remainder of the tubing is rotated by a worker as he walks through the area to be sprayed. By varying the radius of the rotating portion of the tubing and by varying the type of spray nozzle employed, the swath width and the droplet size of liquid chemical application can be closely controlled. Granular agricultural chemicals can be applied by rotating a granular material nozzle about its axis while rotating the tubing in a vertical plane.

Abstract: A low cost sprayer and method of using the sprayer is disclosed. The sprayer is formed with a length of flexible tubing having an inlet end and a tubing outlet end. A nozzle is secured to the outlet end of the hose in a manner to provide a predetermined flow pattern upon rotation of the tubing and nozzle. In use, the inlet end of the tubing is placed within an agricultural chemical containing tank and a predetermined length of the remainder of the tubing is rotated by a worker as he walks through the area to be sprayed. By varying the radius of the rotating portion of the tubing and by varying the type of spray nozzle employed, the swath width and the droplet size of liquid chemical application can be closely controlled. Granular agricultural chemicals can be applied by rotating a granular material nozzle about its axis while rotating the tubing in a vertical plane.

Abstract: A mobile agricultural water cannon to transfer water from sloughs and shallow ponds to adjoining land has (1) a suction pod to collect the water into a suction chamber, (2) a tail boom assembly to lower the suction pod into the water from adjoining land, (3) a suction boom to move the water through the tail boom assembly from the suction pod to a high pressure pump on the suction boom, and (4) a pressure boom to discharge the water from the high pressure pump; there is a priming pump on the suction pod to prime the high pressure pump. The suction and pressure booms are mounted on wheels, the other parts being attached to these to pivot between operating and transport positions for operation and towing by a motive power source which can power the high pressure pump and the priming pump, and pivot the tail boom assembly.

Abstract: A programmable sprinkler system ideally suited for use in an enclosure such as a nursery and/or arboretum includes a first overhead rail and a water pipe connected to a pressurized source of water. The water pipe is provided with a plurality of water valves placed at discreet intervals along its length and extend outwardly therefrom and is positioned alongside and close to the first overhead rail and parallel thereto. A source of electrical power is positioned close to and generally parallel with the first rail on the other side thereof and extends essentially its entire length. A plurality of second overhead rails have one end of each positioned near the valves and the first rail and extends outwardly therefrom, preferably at right angles thereto, defining a path along which the water is to be dispensed. A carrier mechanism rests on the first rail. Nested upon the carrier mechanism is a detachable car that includes a second coupling device to bring electrical power to it.

Abstract: A lubricant distribution system which includes a standard oil storage tank, a pump, a retractable hose reel for discharging the lubricant, and a saddle bracket for mounting the reel to the covered upper surface of the tank. The bracket is configured to facilitate attachment of the reel to a lubricant containing tank in an operative system by connecting to the tank at the ventilation cap fitting of the tank, and to be supported and leveled upon the tank with adjustable feet.

Abstract: The device concerns a waterhose wound around a bobbin, one end of the bobbin being provided with a quick-coupling having the form of a socket made of rubber or soft plastic connectable to water fittings of varying design.

Abstract: A hose arrangement for use in a car wash of the type which provides a hose with a spray nozzle on the end and means for mounting the hose for rotation around a central pivot point including a boom which extends away from the pivot point and rotates around the pivot point. The boom is formed of a pair of flexible wires arranged on either side of the central pivot and each having coils at a position intermediate the length so as to allow the wire to flex downwardly out of the horizontal plane when the hose is pulled. The central pivot can be arranged to pivot about an axis at a small angle to the vertical whereby the boom has a lowermost position at one point in its rotation to which it tends to rotate.

Abstract: An apparatus for spraying both liquid and dry particulate material such as powder. A rectangular housing holds upright cylinders, one for liquid and the other for dry particulate material and each having a one-way check valve at the top for receiving pressurized air and an air pressure gauge above the housing. Coiled flexible hoses extend from the respective cylinders to spray nozzles outside the housing. This entire assembly is stored in a covered carrying case.

Abstract: A cut squirt wherein a nozzle for a jet of cutting liquid is movably supported on a boom extending transversely of the direction of advancement for a web of paper and is connected to a supply hose for cutting liquid which is coiled in one layer on a driven drum and is connected at the drum to a feed conduit for said liquid, whereby the nozzle is driven back and forth along the boom when the hose is uncoiled from or coiled onto the drum. The drum end of the hose is attached to a carrier which rotates together with the drum and has cam engagement with a fixed guide member such that the carrier is displaced one hose width in the axial direction of the drum for each revolution of the drum, and in that a flexible, liquid-conduit connection is arranged between the drum end of the hose and the cutting liquid feed conduit to the drum.

Abstract: A spray irrigation apparatus including a vehicle which carries a spraying nozzle connected to a hollow shaft of a drum reel, a pipe being connected to the hollow shaft and being wound onto the drum reel. The pipe is dispensed from the reel by means of a reeling guide structure which causes the pipe to move from the reel in a curved path so that the pipe passes from a direction perpendicular to the axis of the reel to a direction parallel to the displacement of the apparatus. That end of the pipe which extends from the apparatus is connected to a water supply station so that the apparatus is supplied with water for spraying onto a field or the like. According to a further feature of the invention, the axis of rotation of the drum reel extends along the direction of movement of the apparatus.

Abstract: An apparatus for non-electrically producing a pulsating spray of water which may be directed to various body cavities as well as any other selected portions of the body. The apparatus is utilized in conjunction with a water supply system and is connected thereto in such a way as to not interfere with the normal flow of water through said water supply system. A flexible tube is utilized for communicating water from said water supply system to a tip for facilitating the aiming of a pulsating spray of water at any desired portion of a body.

Abstract: A mobile watering apparatus has a framework which is provided with wheels and supports a watering nozzle as well as a drum forming rotary magazine for a pipe, one end of which is connected to the nozzle. The other end of the pipe, leaving the drum, is adapted for connection to a water supply station on the land. A hydraulic motor, actuated by water under pressure, allows the traveling of the apparatus and the joint winding of the pipe on the drum, with however, a slip clutch in the second case. This slip clutch is preferably controlled by a means responsive to the tension being exerted on the pipe.

Abstract: A traveling sprinkler radio-controlled mechanism and warning device which obtains an adequate and controlled duration of watering at opposed ends of a field to be watered while concurrently insuring that over-watering will not occur whenever an unattended traveling sprinkler stops for any reason whatever. A re-settable time delay means is employed which obviates a common deficiency of under-watering at the opposed ends of the field while also preventing over-watering which heretofore occurred whenever an unscheduled stop occurred or where no shut down of the pump was provided for at the far end of the field. Radio transmitter and receiver means are used to transmit and receive a shutoff signal for a pump supplying water to the traveling sprinkler whenever the traveling sprinkler stops.

Abstract: An extension spray gun comprising a plurality of hollow pole sections telescopically secured together to form an extendable pole having a spray nozzle secured to one end of the pole and a valve secured to the other end of the pole to control flow of paint through a flexible hose extending between the valve and the nozzle. Paint is delivered from the hose to a chamber formed in the nozzle and flows through a passage in the nozzle to a spray tip. A valve element in the chamber is spring urged to close the passage when pressure of paint in the chamber is less than a predetermined pressure.

Abstract: A traveling irrigation sprinkler has a water-powered radial inflow turbine for driving a winch that pulls the sprinkler along a path of travel. Water is supplied to a sprinkler gun either directly from an inlet conduit, or indirectly by passing it through the turbine. A diverter valve proportions the direct and indirect flows and provides a first means of controlling the travel speed of the sprinkler. A shiftable transmission drivingly interconnects the turbine and the winch and provides a second means of controlling travel speed. The turbine includes a vaned runner and a scroll which circumferentially surrounds the runner to deliver water at a substantially uniform velocity to the periphery of the runner.

Abstract: A programmable sprinkler system ideally suited for use in an enclosure such as a nursery and/or arboretum includes a first overhead rail and a water pipe connected to a pressurized source of water. The water pipe is provided with a plurality of water valves placed at discreet intervals along its length and extend outwardly therefrom and is positioned alongside and close to the first overhead rail and parallel thereto. A source of electrical power is positioned close to and generally parallel with the first rail on the other side thereof and extends essentially its entire length. A plurality of second overhead rails have one end of each positioned near the valves and the first rail and extends outwardly therefrom, preferably at right angles thereto, defining a path along which the water is to be dispensed. A carrier mechanism rests on the first rail. Nested upon the carrier mechanism is a detachable car that includes a second coupling device to bring electrical power to it.