Patents by Inventor Welker W. Funk

Welker W. Funk has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 3980232
    Abstract: For spraying orchards or other agricultural products, apparatus is made up of modular components including a discharge head unit, a tank unit and a draw bar unit. In one mode of use, the discharge head unit is supported by the three-point-hitch of a tractor, and the draw bar unit is mounted on the tank unit for coupling the tank unit to a hitch mounted on the head unit. In another mode, the tank unit, discharge head unit and draw bar unit are assembled in a unitary trailer assembly to be towed by a towing tractor. In each case power is supplied by the tractor power takeoff. The discharge head unit includes a centrifugal blower including a generally cylindrical housing and a generally concentric blower rotor, with high velocity discharge nozzles projecting generally radially from a generally cylindrical housing wall portion. The housing is constructed so that the nozzle wall portion is readily removable and replaced with a substitute nozzle wall portion containing a different nozzle arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1974
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1976
    Inventor: Welker W. Funk