Hydraulic and earth engineering – Subterranean or submarine pipe or cable laying – retrieving,... – By means advancing along terrain and guiding pipe or cable...
Patent
1982-02-08
1984-07-24
Taylor, Dennis L.
Hydraulic and earth engineering
Subterranean or submarine pipe or cable laying, retrieving,...
By means advancing along terrain and guiding pipe or cable...
111 2, 405 36, 405180, 405174, E02F 510, F16L 100
Patent
active
044615981
ABSTRACT:
A machine for installing drip irrigation conduit consisting of a horizontally extended hose and upright risers spaced along the hose, the machine being adapted to move along a predetermined track of conduit installation; the machine having a pair of coulters and a moldboard disposed to generate a furrow having a vertical wall and an opposite wall at an acute angle to the vertical; a reel for transporting preprepared conduit which is drawn from the reel by previously buried conduit as the machine moves along the track; a pair of downwardly convergent, planar guards extended along the furrow and individually upwardly along respective walls; a wheel disposed between the guards for rotation in a plane parallel to such opposite wall, the wheel having fingers spaced about it circumferentially and extended toward the guard along the vertical wall; elements for guiding the hose from the reel for engagement by the fingers at the lower sector of the wheel to lay the conduit in the bottom of the furrow; elements for guiding the risers successively to the wheel in radial relation to it so that each riser is brought into an upright disposition as the corresponding portion of the hose is laid; and a crowder disposed to return earth removed by the moldboard to the furrow in a direction toward the vertical wall to urge each riser toward such wall and to maintain the riser in its upright disposition as the furrow is filled by the returned earth.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2155044 (1939-04-01), Gray et al.
patent: 2184912 (1939-12-01), Freeman et al.
patent: 2909134 (1959-10-01), Kniefel
patent: 3313115 (1967-04-01), Kniefel
patent: 3546887 (1970-12-01), Helmus
patent: 3668879 (1972-06-01), Ogle
patent: 3813888 (1974-06-01), Purriance
patent: 3905200 (1974-09-01), Ylinen
LandOfFree
Machine for installing drip irrigation conduit does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with Machine for installing drip irrigation conduit, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Machine for installing drip irrigation conduit will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-96653