Rain Bird Sprinkler Mfg. Corp.

Rain Bird Sprinkler Manufacturing Company

Richard D Brown

Hans D Christen

Edward J Pitchford

Octavian P Dumitrascu

Fred W March

Bernard J Wilson

Doyle R Metz

Roger W Perkins

Briant E Benson

Mathias Plotkin

Ground support stake for irrigation tubing

An up-spray deflector cup for use in an irrigation device of the type suspended from an overhead traveling irrigation system for discharging water from a downwardly directed nozzle in close proximity to the ground, the deflector cup being positioned centrally below the nozzle and serving to deflect water from the nozzle upwardly and radially outwardly as diametrically opposed from choped sprays. The deflector cup includes two concentric sets of deflecting surfaces for deflecting water from different size nozzles risible with the irrigation device.

Up-spray deflector cup for spraying the underside of plant foliage

A continuous tube emitter comprises an elongated flexible plastic tube with internal pressure-responsive flow control units to control the flow rate of irrigation water through outlet openings in the tube. The flexible plastic tube is formed from an elongated thin film web having one or more relatively thicker valve members on one side thereof defining a plurality of valve faces, wherein each valve face includes at least one shallow drip emission groove leading into a valve reservoir of wider cross section and communicating respectively with the outlet openings cut through the web. One longitudinal margin of the web is trimmed to form laterally projecting flaps at longitudinal positions generally corresponding with the valve faces. The web is then rolled upon itself about a longitudinal axis and longitudinally seamed to form the continuous tube emitter with the flaps each internally overlying the valve reservoir and a portion of the drip emission groove of a respective valve face to define one of the flow control units. In a preferred form, the flaps include structure for maintaining the flaps in close overlying relation with the valve faces. In use, water pressure within the tube forces the flaps into engagement with the aligned valve faces to restrict and control the rate of water flow through the outlet openings.

Continuous tube emitter

An improved trickle irrigation unit includes a selector dial for controlling water flow through a plurality of outlet ports. The trickle unit comprises a valve housing having a water inlet port opening into one side of a pressure chamber, the other side of which is defined by a plurality of recessed flow patterns each leading to a respective one of the outlet ports. A resilient valve flap within the pressure chamber is hydraulically seated over the flow pattern and includes an array of flow passages alignable with selected flow patterns to permit water flow thereinto from the pressure chamber, with the flap deforming into the selected flow patterns for pressure-responsive flow control of water to the associated outlet ports. The valve flap is rotatably carried by the selector dial for movement to different set positions to alter the number of flow patterns aligned with flap flow passages thereby correspondingly altering the number of outlet ports in flow communication with the pressure chamber.

Multiple outlet trickle irrigation unit

An impact drive sprinkler is provided for projecting a water stream in a generally upward and outward direction from a water supply riser. The sprinkler includes a sprinkler body formed from a length of tubing mounted for rotation on the riser wherein the tubing is bent at a selected angle to define a smooth, substantially uninterrupted flow path from the riser to a discharge nozzle. An impact drive assembly is mounted on the tubing and includes a spring-biased drive arm formed preferably from inexpensive stamped metal parts for interrupting the projected water stream at regular intervals and for impacting the tubing to rotate the tubing in increments about the riser. The drive assembly is mounted on the tubing at a position downstream from the tubing bend such that the construction and operation of the drive assembly is unaffected by the magnitude of the angular bend in the tubing.

Impact drive sprinkler

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Glendora, CA, United States of America

Richard D Brown