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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2006
Joseph D. Sinden, Walla Walla, WA (US);
Rex D. Ness, Walla Walla, WA (US);
Chad D. Leinweber, Walla Walla, WA (US);
Richard J. Berrier, Walla Walla, WA (US);
Craig Nelson, Walla Walla, WA (US);
Robert Rupar, Walla Walla, WA (US);
Joseph D. Sinden, Walla Walla, WA (US);
Rex D. Ness, Walla Walla, WA (US);
Chad D. Leinweber, Walla Walla, WA (US);
Richard J. Berrier, Walla Walla, WA (US);
Craig Nelson, Walla Walla, WA (US);
Robert Rupar, Walla Walla, WA (US);
Nelson Irrigation Corporation, Walla Walla, WA (US);
Abstract
A linear water feed apparatus for use in agricultural irrigation includes a linear-move machine with a mobile truss assembly supporting a plurality of individual sprinklers and adapted for movement in a specified direction across a field to be irrigated. The truss assembly is oriented transverse to the specified direction, and a supply pipe is arranged in the specified direction along or within the field to be irrigated. The supply pipe mounts a plurality of water supply hydrants at spaced locations along the pipe, each of the hydrants enclosing a water supply valve. A docking station is supported at one end of the truss assembly closest to the supply pipe, and is adapted to engage and open successive ones of the water supply valves in the plurality of hydrants. The docking station assembly includes a docking station that is suspended from a frame for floating movement about at least three mutually perpendicular axes.