Abstract: A flow regulator (10) for regulating a rate of flow of a liquid from an inlet flow path to an outlet flow path. The flow regulator includes a housing (14) with one wall or more which defines, at least in part, a regulation chamber (16) with all annular surface (18) and an outlet aperture (20) in fluid communication with the outlet flow path.

Abstract: An irrigation device including an inlet receiving water under pressure, a water collection and releasing mechanism coupled to the inlet for collecting a quantity of water and subsequently releasing at least part of the quantity of water to the atmosphere, said water collection and releasing mechanism comprising a compressible diaphragm, and flow control apparatus governing the supply of water from said inlet to said water collection and releasing mechanism.

Abstract: Drip irrigation apparatus including a housing including a water inlet, a water outlet and a water flow path extending therebetween and a pressure responsive membrane disposed within the housing and arranged to govern the flow of water, and wherein the orientation of the pressure responsive membrane is responsive to the pressure of the water impinging on the membrane at a plurality of different locations on the same side of the membrane which are separated from each other.

Abstract: An irrigation device including a first interior water path defining member and a second exterior water path defining member, cooperating with the first water path defining member to define a circuitous water path including sequential water path components extending generally in three mutually perpendicular directions.

Abstract: Drip irrigation apparatus including a continuous outer tube and a plurality of low rate determining inserts located at desired locations therealong interiorly of the outer tube, the inserts being selected to have one or more of the following features; an outlet chamber which extends over a significant portion of the circumference of the outer tube; a configuration which allows substantial flattening of the outer tube when not in use, a pressure responsive flow controller; a pressure reducing pathway formed solely or partially by the insert and an air pocket spring defined wholly or partially by the insert for cooperation with a pressure responsive flow controller, thereby providing a flow controller which integrally formed as a single unit.

Abstract: Pressure responsive, volume-controlled drip irrigation apparatus including a drip irrigation element defining a volume control region having a peripheral edge surface along at least part of the periphery thereof, there being disposed along a side of the volume control region a first surface of a flexible membrane, whose second surface communicates with a source of pressurized water, a flow restricting pathway having an inlet communicating with the source of pressurized water and an outlet communicating with the volume control region, and a water outlet communicating with the volume control region at the peripheral edge surface thereof.

Abstract: Drip irrigation apparatus including a continuous outer tube and a plurality of low rate determining inserts located at desired locations therealong interiorly of the outer tube, the inserts being selected to have one or more of the following features; an outlet chamber which extends over a significant portion of the circumference of the outer tube; a configuration which allows substantial flattening of the outer tube when not in use, a pressure responsive flow controller; a pressure reducing pathway formed solely or partially by the insert and an air pocket spring defined wholly or partially by the insert for cooperation with a pressure responsive flow controller, thereby providing a flow controller which integrally formed as a single unit.

Abstract: An irrigation line having desired output flow characteristics therealong including a liquid flow conduit couplable to a source of liquid under pressure; a multiplicity of liquid discharge elements associated with the conduit along the length thereof and having their inputs coupled to the conduit at locations such that the flow rates of liquid through the individual discharge elements are in a desired proportional relationship. The individual capacities of the discharge elements may be varied as well.