B05B12/087

Systems and methods for product system of an agricultural applicator

A product system for an agricultural sprayer includes a product tank configured to store a volume of an agricultural product. A fill station is configured to accept the agricultural product from an off-board source. A flow assembly is fluidly coupled with the fill station and is configured to direct the agricultural product into a product tank from the conduit. A reclaim system is configured to provide the agricultural product within the flow assembly to the product tank. A computing system is communicatively coupled to the reclaim system. The computing system is configured to receive inputs indicative of activation of a fill mode, detect termination of the fill mode, and activate a reclaim mode to move the agricultural product from at least the conduit to the product tank through activation of the reclaim system.

Method and system for in row variable rate precision irrigation
11559014 · 2023-01-24 ·

An irrigation management system which allows for modulation of the watering gradient along crop rows. The system may include dual drip lines which allow for selection of gradients based upon the time each of the dual lines is active. The system may utilize pressure sensitive valves which select drip lines based upon the inlet feed water pressure. The system may include drip emitters which modify flow rates based upon inlet feed water pressure.

Water stream stop valve for sprinkler
11701677 · 2023-07-18 · ·

A water stream stop valve for a sprinkler includes a tube body, an annular cover, multiple securing units, and a drainage body having a hole at the center thereof, is arranged above the tube body by multiple support plates. The water stream stop valve is incorporated in a pop-up sprinkler that includes a main body, an expansion pipe with a stop member arranged at top internal diameter thereof, a spray head, and the water stream stop valve arranged inside the expansion pipe and below the spray head. When the spray head falls off expansion pipe, the water stream stop valve will be pushed up to the top of the expansion pipe and stop at the stop member for avoiding the overflow of water while maintaining the spraying at the original area, and delivering a service indication stream.

Touchless cleaning assembly
11696665 · 2023-07-11 ·

A touchless cleaning assembly for cleaning a room in a touch-less manner includes a cabinet is recessed into a wall of a room. A plurality of hose reels is positioned in the cabinet and each of the hose reels includes a hose that is drawable outwardly from the cabinet for spraying a fluid for cleaning surfaces in the room, for blowing air to dry the surfaces and to vacuum the surfaces. An air compressor is positioned within the cabinet to direct compressed air into a respective hose reel to dry the surfaces. A vacuum is positioned within the cabinet to supply vacuum pressure to the a respective hose reel for suctionally removing the fluid from a floor of the room.

Sprinkler elbow connector with integral pressure regulator
11541411 · 2023-01-03 ·

A pressure regulator for use in an elbow connector for use with a sprinkler assembly including a pressure responsive member, movably mounted in the elbow connector and movable from an open position allowing flow of water into the sprinkler assembly and a closed position where the bottom edge of the pressure responsive member blocks the flow of water into the sprinkler assembly. The pressure responsive member is biased in the open position and moves into the closed position when downstream water pressure exceeds a predetermined value.

METHOD FOR ADJUSTING PRESSURE OF MIXTURE OF GAS AND PASTE MATERIAL DISCHARGED FROM DISPENSER
20220410198 · 2022-12-29 ·

A dispenser for discharging a mixture of gas and paste material includes: a nozzle part (2) provided in a tip end part of a body (11) and having a tip end opening; a flow path (4) for the mixture extending from an introduction part (5) for the mixture to the tip end opening through a hollow space of the nozzle part; a needle part (3) movable in the flow path of the nozzle part to open and close the flow path; a driving part (7, 8, and 9) that drives the needle part; and a stopper part (10, 14, and 16) that limits an operation range of the needle part. The nozzle part has a tapered section in which an inside diameter of the flow path of the nozzle part relative to an operation range of a tip end of the needle part decreases toward the tip end opening.

ADJUSTABLE FOG JET NOZZLE
20220401772 · 2022-12-22 · ·

A nozzle includes an inlet end having one or more inlet apertures and an outlet end having one or more outlet apertures. The nozzle includes a body member that extends between the inlet end and the outlet end. In some embodiments, the nozzle includes a central member that extends centrally through the body member. The nozzle includes an end member fixedly coupled with the central member at the outlet end. The nozzle includes a slidable member translatably coupled with the central member. The slidable member is configured to direct fluid that flows through the body member outwards towards an inner surface of the body member and translation of the slidable member adjusts a K-factor of the nozzle.

ANTI-SIPHON/REGULATOR VALVE
20220403954 · 2022-12-22 ·

An anti-siphon/regulator valve is provided. The valve includes a body having a cylindrical portion and a frustoconical portion extending from the cylindrical portion. The valve includes an inlet opening formed in a first end of the body on the cylindrical portion and an outlet opening formed in a second end of the body on the frustoconical portion. The valve also includes an inner multi-tapered aperture extending from the inlet opening and the outlet opening. The valve operates to regulate fluid flow from the inlet opening through the outlet opening based on the geometry of the multi-tapered aperture, and to inhibit flow from the outlet opening through the inlet opening because of that same geometry.

Temperature Controlled Surface Coating Application System
20220401977 · 2022-12-22 ·

Systems and methods for controlling the temperature of liquid coatings discharged from air pressurized spray pots and the like are described. The non-electrical temperature-controlled systems rely on the pressurization and expansion of air and/or other gases to lower or increase the temperature of the sprayed liquid coating. The system includes cooling coils surrounding a pressurized spray pot contained within an insulated enclosure. Pressurized ambient air is passed through a cooling vortex cylinder before passing into the cooling coils. The cooled air preferably then passes into an insulated envelope surrounding the discharge lines to the spray gun. An optional system structure adds a second cooling vortex cylinder to reduce the temperature of the pressurized air in a second flow line that serves to pressurize the spray pot and to pass to the spray gun parallel to the cooled liquid line.

SPRAY GUN
20220395850 · 2022-12-15 ·

There is provided a spray gun configured to atomize a liquid by using a compressed gas. The spray gun comprises: a gas cap configured to inject the compressed gas; and a liquid nozzle configured to inject the liquid, wherein the gas cap comprises a center gas flow path that has an opening provided in a neighborhood of the liquid nozzle; and multiple pairs of side face gas ports provided outside of the opening, each pair of the side face gas ports being placed at positions symmetric to each other across a center of the liquid nozzle and being directed toward a center in an injecting direction of the liquid nozzle, and wherein control is made to individually regulate a pressure of the gas to be injected from each pair of the side face gas ports.