Device for collecting sap

Details Device for collecting sap Device for collecting sap

1988-03-29

1990-05-22

Hafer, Robert A.

Plant husbandry

Sap buckets

Spouts

47 50, 239272, A01G 2310

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049265970

ABSTRACT:
The disclosure herein describes a device for collecting sap from trees and directing the sap to a sap collecting system operatable under vacuum conditions; it comprises a hollow body including a frusto-conical section adapted to be forced into the outer layers of a tree to be sap-collected. Adjacent the open end of the section is a series of longitudinal sap irrigating grooves allowing the sap to be collected and directed into the hollow body with the system is operating under vacuum conditions. To prevent air from being sucked into the hollow body as a result of the vacuum effect, the frusto-conical section has a groove in which is received a resilient element sealing the body to the of tree layers.

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