Patents Assigned to Agrifim Irrigation International NV
  • Patent number: 4702787
    Abstract: A method for making drip irrigation lines comprises feeding an elongated sheet of flexible polyethylene film to an injection molding machine for injection molding a series of drippers across a face of the film. A moldable thermoplastic material is injected into multiple die cavities, forming separate drippers each simultaneously heat-bonded to the film. Each dripper has a molded labyrinthine flow-restricting passage extending along it. The mold is opened, the film is advanced, and further series of drippers are injection molded across the face of the film. The previously molded set of drippers are closed off by heat sealing a separate strip of flexible film to a face of each molded dripper to form sealed internal pressure-reducing labyrinthine passages in the drippers. An inlet opens into one end of the sealed internal passage and an outlet opens from the opposite end through the film. The outlet is formed and reinforced during the molding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1987
    Assignee: Agrifim Irrigation International NV
    Inventors: Rodney Ruskin, Rael Sacks