The Toro Company

Steve A Swinney, Ii

Todd A Otto

Brannon W Polk

John Ryan Kess

Steven R Peterson

William J Jugovich

David J Martin

Bart T Ellson

Chakradhari Ratala

A mobile turf sprayer operates to spray a product onto a turf site. In some embodiments the mobile turf sprayer identifies a plurality of regions of the turf site to be sprayed and automatically sprays product onto those regions as the mobile turf sprayer moves about the turf site.

Mobile turf sprayer

A turf sprayer comprises a transport vehicle that carries a laterally extending spray boom assembly. The spray boom assembly is both laterally displaceable and angularly displaceable relative to the transport vehicle. A controller uses a defined path represented by GPS coordinates to control the operation of various actuators to automatically maintain a reference point on the spray boom assembly on the desired path and to automatically maintain the spray boom assembly perpendicular to the desired path.

Turf maintenance or working apparatus with automatically controlled laterally and angularly displaceable swath-based implement

Sprayer with automatically controlled laterally and angularly displaceable spray boom assembly

A vehicle mounted sprayer has a plurality of spray booms equipped with downwardly facing spray nozzles. A control console includes a rounded palm rest with the most often used operational spray controls placed directly ahead of the palm rest for easy actuation by the operator as the operator rests the palm of one hand on the palm rest. A pivotal hose reel for manual spraying has pivotal motion about a vertical axis into one of a plurality of adjusted positions relative to the sprayer to ease unwinding and rewinding of the hose from the hose reel. A hill assist system holds the sprayer on a hill for a predetermined time to give the operator enough time to place the sprayer into forward motion up the hill from a standing stop. The spray through the booms can be selectively added to flow in a tank agitation system to boost agitation effectiveness.

Sprayer with easily locatable operational controls, hill assist, pivotal hose reel, and agitation boost

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Hudson, WI, United States of America

Steve A Swinney, Ii