Abstract:
Rooftop water sprinkler with a water sprinkler head, a pair rectangular frames, a pair of weight enclosing housings, a pair of hinge members and a straight water pipe. The water hose pipe is located between the rectangular frames. The hinge members are each comprised of three short tubular portions that form a triangular configuration. The water pipe is attached within the topmost tubular portion of the hinge member and a leg of each rectangular frame is attached to the bottom tubular hinge members. The sprinkler head is mounted mid way along the rigid water pipe. The water pipe terminates at one end in a garden hose fitting and at its opposite end in an a closure cap. The weight enclosing housings attach to the free portion of each of the rectangular frames. The frames straddle a roof ridgeline.
Abstract:
A hand-held device for applying a layer of fluid droplets on a target or subject is provided. The device includes a housing with a fluid reservoir. The device further includes an inlet port in the housing for receiving pressurized fluid. A rotatable brush roll in the housing includes a plurality of bristles. The brush roll is configured for rotation along an axis positioned to have a selected spatial relationship relative to an exit window in the housing. A conduit for delivering the pressurized fluid to the bristles in the brush roll is provided. At least one flipper element is positioned to contact the tips of the bristles extending over a corresponding section of the rotatable roll so that fluid collected therein is propelled through the exit window in the housing with a pattern at least in part based on the selected spatial relationship between the rotation axis of the brush roll and the exit window. An outlet port is provided for draining fluid that accumulates in the reservoir.
Abstract:
A hand-held device for applying a layer of fluid droplets on a target or subject is provided. The device includes a housing with a fluid reservoir. The device further includes an inlet port in the housing for receiving pressurized fluid. A rotatable brush roll in the housing includes a plurality of bristles. The brush roll is configured for rotation along an axis positioned to have a selected spatial relationship relative to an exit window in the housing. A conduit for delivering the pressurized fluid to the bristles in the brush roll is provided. At least one flipper element is positioned to contact the tips of the bristles extending over a corresponding section of the rotatable roll so that fluid collected therein is propelled through the exit window in the housing with a pattern at least in part based on the selected spatial relationship between the rotation axis of the brush roll and the exit window. An outlet port is provided for draining fluid that accumulates in the reservoir.
Abstract:
An improved water-sprinkler having a vertically-pivotal control flap that is adjustably positionable with respect to the outlet of the nozzle, which controls the distances the emerging water-stream will reach. The control flap has an inner bracket-end that is pivotally mounted to a pivot block at the lower end of the bracket end, the upper part of the bracket-end being pivotally connected to a distal end of a control arm that is horizontally-adjustable via a series of circularly-arranged, independently and horizontally-movable sliding reeds or blocks, the distance of these sliding blocks from their radial center determining the horizontal position of the other end of the control arm, and, therefore, the end of the control arm connected to the upper end of the flap, whereby the spacing of the flap from the nozzle-outlet may be cyclically changed according to a desired pattern determined by the relative radial positions of the plurality of sliding blocks. Any pattern of sliding-block orientations may be achieved so as to conform the water-sprinkling to a desired pattern, so that during any sector of rotation, the nozzle-stream will water a relatively distant portion of the lawn, and for another sector of rotation, water a relatively near portion of the lawn in order to avoid wetting a patio, or the like.
Abstract:
A rotary indexing nozzle head is provided wherein a dome like structure includes a rotating nozzle part supported by bearings interiorly thereof. The exit portion of the nozzle member includes a flexible bellows like structure which expands under the influence of water pressure and causes a lip thereon to engage an appropriately spaced wall for holding the nozzle in a specific location until the water pressure is relieved whereupon the bellows structure contracts and removes the engaging lip from the adjacent wall. A nozzle is caused to index by the jet of water impinging upon the curved surface of the lip 34 thereby causing the nozzle member to move sidewise, that is to say rotationally, until the lip is moved out far enough by the water pressure to cause the lip to engage the adjacent wall of the dome. The walls of the dome are spaced around its periphery so as in effect to provide openings for the jet of water to come through.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a shield for sprinklers, which can be quickly attached and detached from a sprinkler standpipe. The shield has a semi-circular deflector mounted at the top of a support rod. A hook is formed in the bottom of the support rod to engage the standpipe. The hook is disposed in a plane substantially horizontal to the support rod, has a slightly helical configuration, and opens in laterally with respect to said rod. Midway of said rod a brace projects from said rod substantially normal thereto and has a standpipe engaging fork in its outer end. The hook readily engages the standpipe when the support rod is parallel to the standpipe and clamps to it when the upper end of the support rod is drawn away from the standpipe to engage the brace with the standpipe.
Abstract:
A water distribution system for spraying a plurality of fine streams of water in a relatively uniform manner onto an ice forming surface. A hollow spraying tube is rotationally and coaxially disposed in a shielding tube of larger diameter. The shielding tube has an elongate slot extending substantially the axial length of the spraying tube such that streams of water are sprayed through those orifices in the spraying tube not shielded by the shielding tube and through the elongate slot. The width of the slot determines the angular arc of spray from the system. The shielding tube is adjustably secured to one side of a turbine housing to adjust the spray direction. A turbine blade assembly is rotationally disposed within the turbine housing and is operatively connected to the spraying tube. Pressurized fluid through an inlet of the turbine housing rotationally drives the blade assembly and the spraying tube and the water is discharged in an unpressurized condition through an outlet of the turbine housing. One end of the spraying tube is open for communication with a source of fluid to be sprayed.
Abstract:
A screen is operatively connected to a transverse wind vane and pivoted with the vane about a horizontal axis relative to the vertical rotational axis of a rotatable sprinkler head having a nozzle forming a spray jet. The screen is pivotable across the nozzle in response to wind velocity, so that as the water jet faces into or against the wind, the screen is held clear of the spray allowing maximum trajectory of the spray jet against the wind. When the spray moves downwind, or in the same direction as the wind, the screen pivots into the spray jet to shorten its trajectory by dissipating the jet into small droplets. A substantially circular sprinkling pattern and thereby, even water dispersal may thus be maintained regardless of wind velocity or direction.
Abstract:
An adjustable cam formed of a single piece injection molded part in which a plurality of narrow strips are joined at common ends by yieldable loops and are disposed side-by-side; the adjacent strips being relatively movable longitudinally within the limits of the connecting loops and forming cam elements at their ends opposite from the loops which may be displaced to define collectively an adjustable cam surface. An embodiment of the adjustable cam includes a lateral extension on each strip forming opposed cam elements, and the cam is arranged in a circle. A cam adjusting means, including cam adjusting rollers, is rotatably mounted within the circle, and pivotal about a transverse axis so that by turning and pivoting the adjusting means, the cam strips are moved longitudinally to change the contour of the cam.
Abstract:
1,245,423. Lawn sprinkler. INTERNATIONAL PATENT RESEARCH CORP. 22 July, 1968 [8 Sept., 1967], No. 8578/71. Divided out of 1,245,422. Heading AID. [Also in Division B2] The subject matter of the specification is the same as that in Specification 1,245,422 but the claims are directed to a rotary deflector 152 which is capable of distributing water sprayed over a lawn area substantially uniformly both circumferentially and radially.