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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2010
Robert J. Bisson, Savage, MN (US);
Brannon W. Polk, Evansville, IN (US);
David J. Norlander, Cottage Grove, MN (US);
Timothy P. Sosnowski, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Bart T. Ellson, Excelsior, MN (US);
Robert J. Bisson, Savage, MN (US);
Brannon W. Polk, Evansville, IN (US);
David J. Norlander, Cottage Grove, MN (US);
Timothy P. Sosnowski, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Bart T. Ellson, Excelsior, MN (US);
The Toro Company, Bloomington, MN (US);
Abstract
A turf sprayer has a truss shaped center boom and a pair of pivotal truss shaped wing booms within which spaced spray nozzles are supported. A drift shroud system comprises three integral and one-piece drift shrouds comprising a center shroud for the center boom and a pair of side shrouds for the wing booms. Each shroud is attached to an underside of the corresponding boom in a manner such that the shrouds project below the booms and not substantially above the booms to leave the truss-shapes of the booms open and unobscured to provide access to the spray nozzles within the booms. The shrouds each have openings in a top wall thereof for receiving the spray exiting from the nozzles with the spray passing downwardly between spaced front and rear walls of the shrouds.