Abstract: An improved fluid control gate for selective insertion through a wall such as a flexible irrigation tube to a pressurized fluid medium such as water under gravity feed. The fluid control gate having a hollow extender mounted through and to the wall for the fluid to flow therethrough, a mating nut for engaging the area of the wall around the extender to the circumference of the extender in order to form a fluid seal therebetween, a formed passageway through the mating nut, and a triangular shaped pivotal plate for selectively reducing the flow of the fluid through the hollow passageway.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 13, 1979
Date of Patent:
October 12, 1982
Assignee:
Agri-Flex, Inc.
Inventors:
Harry C. Spendlow, Sr., William E. Houghton