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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 1980
Filed:
Apr. 24, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
Sandra E Kays, Athens, GA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364510 ; 364424 ; 239162 ; 239172 ;
Abstract
There is disclosed a monitoring system for monitoring the rate at which a liquid such as fertilizer or insecticide or herbicide is dispensed by spraying from a moving vehicle. The system determines and displays an indication of the application rate in gallons per acre or liters per hectare using straightforward computations from inputs representing the outputs of sensors for vehicle velocity, width of spray pattern, and liquid flow rate. Visual and/or audible indicators are also provided to warn the operator when the actual application rate differs from the desired application rate by more than a predetermined permissable error factor.