Distributor Continuously Moves Relative To Support During Spraying Patents (Class 239/225.1)
  • Patent number: 6257501
    Abstract: A mister and an electric fan combination is mounted upon a vertical stand. The mister has a housing arranged to define a curvature that is concentric with a rotational center of rotary fan blades and with the central back of the fan. The housing is attached to the fan guard grill. The mister has a flexible hose extending from a junction with the housing to a location distal from the housing to convey pressurized fluid from a source. The electric fan is pivotally connected on diametrically opposite sides to a connection structure, which is raised by a pole from a base structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Atico International USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Roach, Don Lee, Cobol Shu
  • Publication number: 20010003348
    Abstract: A double angle rotospray dispenser including: (a) a rotatable shaft; and (b) a dispensing tip connected to a free end of the rotatable shaft. The dispensing tip includes: (i) a first angled surface extending outwardly from the shaft axis; (ii) a second opposing angled surface connected to the first angled surface and extending inwardly towards the shaft axis; and (iii) a terminal surface located at a bottom end of the dispensing tip, adjacent to the second opposing angled surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 1999
    Publication date: June 14, 2001
    Inventor: PETER DUDANOWICZ
  • Patent number: 6230984
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for the ejection of liquid comprising a plurality of rotor nozzles which are combined into a unit. Each rotor nozzle has a rotor space formed in a nozzle housing and an inlet opening in the region of its one axial end and an outlet opening for the liquid at the other end, as well as a rotationally driven rotor arranged inclined in the rotor space relative to its longitudinal axis and supported at the inner wall of the rotor space. The rotor has a nozzle region supported in a cup bearing at its end pointing towards the outlet opening and an inflow opening at the opposite end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Inventor: Anton Jager
  • Patent number: 6230091
    Abstract: A variable flow spray nozzle system for delivering a plurality of crop inputs over an agricultural field using a spray boom having a plurality of release zones. Each release zone on the boom is has multiple nozzle modules, and each nozzle module is individually controlled and capable of variable flow. A control system in communication with each nozzle module and a positioning system, such as a GPS system, controls the application of multiple crop inputs so that the crop inputs are applied at a variable prescriptive rate. Thus, it is possible to vary the flow of crop inputs along the length of the boom as well as in a direction substantially transverse to the direction of the boom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Ag-Chem Equipment Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Alvin E. McQuinn