Fluid sprinkling – spraying – and diffusing – With heating or cooling means for the system or system fluid – Heating means
Patent
1999-01-11
2000-04-11
Hook, James
Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing
With heating or cooling means for the system or system fluid
Heating means
239172, 47 15, B05B 124, A01M 700, A01M 2100
Patent
active
060479000
ABSTRACT:
A method of killing or controlling vegetation particularly along roadside berms involves the application of pressurized hot water from a moving applicator head in close proximity to the ground. The pressurized hot water is applied as jets of hot water from an applicator head at a temperature in the range of 100.degree. C. to 110.degree. C. and the flow rate of about 10 liters/minute supplied from one or more pumps operating at a pump pressure of between 200 to 100 psi. The apparatus is mounted on or in a vehicle such as a van, containing a water tank (1), a boiler (2) arranged to heat pressurized water supplied by a pump (4) under pressure to the boiler (2). The pump (4) is a piston pump which supplies the pressurized water through the boiler to a hand held applicator (5) or optionally a towed boom applicator (6). The hand held applicator (5) has an applicator head inside a shroud so that the pressurized hot water is applied to the surface of vegetation as jets of water within the confines of the shroud.
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Collins Graham Leslie
Newson Richard John
Hook James
O'Hanlon Sean P.
Waipuna International Limited
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