Fluid sprinkling – spraying – and diffusing – Container for non-fluid material – and scattering means – Body supported
Patent
1975-12-15
1976-09-07
Ward, Jr., Robert S.
Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing
Container for non-fluid material, and scattering means
Body supported
239676, 239686, 239687, A01C 1700
Patent
active
039790711
ABSTRACT:
A portable hand held device for distributing granular material including a hopper for holding the material, a support base for the hopper, a distributor wheel having circumferentially spaced outwardly opening compartments suspended beneath the base under the discharge of the hopper, a hand crank operated drive assembly mounted on the base coupled with the distributor wheel turning the wheel, an arcuate shield or side wall suspended from the base around the portion of the distributor wheel in the vicinity of the discharge of the hopper into the wheel, and a shutter slide mounted between the distributor wheel and the hopper discharge for adjusting the rate of flow from the hopper into each compartment of the distributor wheel. Granulated materials such as fertilizer, insecticide, grass seed, and the like is distributed by manual support of the device and rotation of the handle to broadcast the material as the distributor wheel is rotated and the material is fed from the hopper through the shutter into the individual compartments of the wheel. The complete isolation of each compartment from the other eliminates the need for a closure plate so that when distribution is stopped the material ceases to flow.
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patent: 486388 (1892-11-01), Strong
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patent: 3157402 (1964-11-01), Love
patent: 3227461 (1966-01-01), Love
Garland H. Mathews
Ward, Jr. Robert S.
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