CN101102668A

CN101102668A - Horticultural applicator device

Info

Publication number: CN101102668A
Application number: CNA2005800469460A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 蒂莫西迪安·赫克勒; 亚当马休·韦克
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Heckler Timothydean
Priority date: 2004-12-10
Filing date: 2005-12-08
Publication date: 2008-01-09
Anticipated expiration: 2025-12-08
Also published as: CN100562249C

Abstract

A horticultural applicator (10) device comprising a raft (12) having a means for applying a substance to plants (14) and a means to drag the raft (22). The raft (12) is dragged over the top of the plants and the means for applying the substance (14) mounted to the raft (12) applies the substance onto said plants.

Description

Horticultural applicator device

Technical field

The present invention relates to horticultural applicator device, be used for spray boom or the similar devices of substances transport such as for example weed killer herbicide to inaccessible zone with loading.

Background technology

Usually expectation spraying weed killer herbicide comes control example as the weeds such as cattail in the lake that is grown in seasonality and spreads unchecked.To such weeds spraying liquid is being difficult to of task, because have a lot of problems near these weeds.Known method need be paddled and be passed this zone, and spray these weeds the artificially.This method is very consuming time and arduous for the individual sprays.Also be difficult to obtain effective result, and since be poisonous or these zones in other dangerous faunas of living, so for the operator danger close.

Is known with bar sprinkling or the use of other spray equipments in a lot of fields of agricultural, gardening and natural region management.Such spray equipment is installed on the automobile or by vehicle traction usually, thereby allows evenly to spray on very wide zone.But it is unpractiaca using spray boom in above-mentioned field, is impossible because use automobile near these zones.For example also can use other equipment such as painting type wick paint finishing, but still have identical near problem.

The present invention attempts to overcome to small part plant is sprayed the foregoing problems that is difficult to access areas.

Summary of the invention

According to an aspect of the present invention, a kind of horticultural applicator device is provided, comprises raft, have the device that is used for that material sprayed to the device of plant and drags raft, wherein raft is dragged in the plant over top, and the device that is used for spraying substance that is installed to raft is sprayed on described plant with material.

Description of drawings

To the present invention be described by the exemplary reference accompanying drawing now, wherein:

Fig. 1 is the top three-dimensional view according to gardening sprayer of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is the sectional view of the gardening sprayer of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is the top three-dimensional view according to another gardening sprayer of the present invention;

Fig. 4 is the sectional view of the gardening sprayer of Fig. 3.

Embodiment

With reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein shown horticultural applicator device 10, comprised raft 12 and be used for spraying the device of material such as weed killer herbicide for example to plant.

Raft 12 comprises the container of open top, and it has lower surface 16, first and second

opposite flanks

18 and 19 and first and second opposed ends surface 20 and 21.Lower surface 16 is generally the plane.The first and second

relative end surfaces

20 and 21 extend upward perpendicular to lower surface 16 in its opposite end from lower surface 16 usually.First and

second side surfaces

18 and 19 opposite sides from lower surface 16 extend upward with the angle less than 90 degree.First and

second side surfaces

18 and 19 are arranged to when raft 12 is dragged by a direction along side surface 18 with respect to the angle of lower surface 16, and

side surface

18 and 19 angle upwards slide on the plant of pending sprinkling raft 12.

Raft 12 comprises and is used for not only and can but also can drags the device of raft 12 in the direction of second side surface 19 in the direction of first side surface 18.This device that is used to drag raft 12 comprises first cable 22 that is connected to first side surface 18 and second cable 24 that is connected to second side surface 19.

In the embodiment shown in Fig. 1 and Fig. 2, the device that is used for spraying substance comprises bar 14, and it has a plurality of spray holes 15 disposed thereon.Bar 14 is installed pivotally about the central elongate member on the raft 12 26.This elongated member 26 extends across raft 12 from first end surface 20 to the second end surface 21.Bar 14 is parallel to elongated member 26 and is installed in the end that is arranged to about the arm member 28 of elongated member 26 pivots.The length of arm member 28 be arranged to make bar 14 can its exceeding raft 12 scope with first side surface, 18 position adjacent and its exceeding raft 12 scope and second side surface, 19 position adjacent between pivot.Flexible supplying duct 30 is arranged to fluid to be sprayed is fed to nozzle 15 on the bar 14.

In an illustrated embodiment, bar 14 is provided with fluid spray such as for example weed killer herbicides to plant.In another embodiment, the device that is used for material is sprayed to plant can comprise bar, and it has the Wick-type sprayer, in this Wick-type sprayer, and wick and plant contact and transmit weed killer herbicide.This wick sprayer selectively directly is installed to raft 12, and does not use bar 14.Also can imagine other materials of spraying.For example, can expect to plant spraying insecticide or fertilizer.Can select the device of spraying substance according to special applications, for example injector, wick or other suitable device.

Among the embodiment shown in Fig. 3 and 4, the device of spraying substance comprises a plurality of nozzles 15, and it is arranged on the lower surface 16 of raft 12.Lower surface 16 is provided with recess 40, extends to the second end surface 21 from first end surface 20, is furnished with nozzle 15 in this recess 40.Nozzle 15 is sprayed on the material that sprays in the zone below the recess 40.It is semicircle that the cross section of recess 40 is generally, and has the nozzle of installing along its length 15.The flexible supplying duct 30 that is connected to nozzle 15 in the raft 12 is fed to nozzle 15 with material to be sprayed.

In the use, when using the sprinkler installation of Fig. 1 and Fig. 2, raft 12 with wait to spray regional adjacent setting, first cable 22 extend across wait to spray the zone and with the bar 14 of the adjacent setting of second side surface 18 (as shown in fig. 1).Power is applied to first cable 22 by suitable devices such as for example capstan winches, raft 12 is crossed plant to be sprayed drag.First side surface 18 that tilts allows rafts process from the plant top, makes and waits to spray the plant bending.Nozzle 15 is sprayed onto the fluid (for example weed killer herbicide) of expectation on the plant that stretches out below second side surface 19.

The lower surface 16 of raft 12 and first and

second side surface

18 and 19 are crossed these surfaces by the material structure with low-friction coefficient so that raft 12 can easily drag.And raft 12 is configured to make the weight of raft 12 to allow raft 12 to be dragged by this way from the top of plant to be sprayed: make the plant bending, but can make plant turn back to vertical position.For example, for weeds such as for example cattails, weight preferably is arranged to make the plant bending at top promptly about 1/3rd.When fluid was sprayed onto on the side surface of plant from bar 14 at optimum distance, plant curved arch and allows more effective sprinkling, produced maximum covering and minimum pressure thus and flowed." curving arch " of tree shade minimized the sprinkling and the infringement to natural understory that will cause that departs from objectives.

When raft 12 arrives when waiting to spray the end in zone, it can turn back to initial position by power being applied to second cable 24, and wherein raft 12 can laterally move and spray adjacent area.As selection, spray boom 14 can pivot about elongated member 26, so it is adjacent with first side surface 18, and raft 12 laterally moves with the width of raft 12, is towed back to along the direction of second side surface 19 then, sprays along this path.

The use of Fig. 3 and the embodiment shown in 4 is identical, does not just need pivot rods 14 when changing the direction of motion of raft 12.Conspicuous for a person skilled in the art improvement and change are considered within the scope of the invention.

Claims

1. horticultural applicator device, it is characterized in that comprising: raft, has the device that is used for that material sprayed to the device of plant and drags described raft, wherein, described raft is dragged in the over top of described plant, and the described device that is used for spraying substance that is installed to described raft sprays to described plant with described material.

2. horticultural applicator device according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, described raft comprises lower surface and makes progress and outward extending first and second side surfaces in its end from described lower surface that the described device that drags described raft can move described raft in first side face directions again in second side face directions.

3. horticultural applicator device according to claim 2 is characterized in that, described first and second side surfaces are generally the plane, and extends with the angle less than 90 degree from lower surface.

4. according to claim 2 or 3 described horticultural applicator devices, it is characterized in that described raft comprises first and second end surfaces, it vertically extends between first and second side surfaces from the opposite end of lower surface usually.

5. according to the described horticultural applicator device of arbitrary aforementioned claim, it is characterized in that the described device that drags described raft comprises the cable that is fixed to raft.

6. according to the described horticultural applicator device of arbitrary aforementioned claim, it is characterized in that described raft is provided with the bar that is installed on it, described bar is provided with the device that is used to spray described material.

7. horticultural applicator device according to claim 6 is characterized in that described bar can exceed between first side surface position adjacent scope and described raft of described raft and the second side surface position adjacent its scope that is exceeding described raft and described raft at it to pivot.

8. horticultural applicator device according to claim 7 is characterized in that described bar is connected to one or more arm members, and described arm member is pivotally mounted to the elongated member that extends between first and second end surfaces of described raft.

9. according to arbitrary described horticultural applicator device among the claim 1-5, it is characterized in that the described device that is used for spraying substance is arranged on the lower surface of described raft.

10. horticultural applicator device according to claim 9, it is characterized in that, the described device that is used for spraying substance is arranged in the recess on the lower surface of described raft, and described recess extends between the second end surface of the first end surface of described raft and described raft.

11. horticultural applicator device according to claim 10 is characterized in that, described recess is generally semi-circular cross-section.

12., it is characterized in that the described device that is used for spraying substance comprises a plurality of nozzles according to the described horticultural applicator device of arbitrary aforementioned claim.

13., it is characterized in that the described device that is used for spraying substance comprises a plurality of wick sprayers according to the described horticultural applicator device of arbitrary aforementioned claim.