LAWN SPRINKLER WITH FLEXIBLE NOZZLE

• US 3,559,888 A
• Filed: 11/18/1968
• Issued: 02/02/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Miklos, Louis F.
• Original Assignee: Miklos, Louis F.
• Inventors: Miklos, Louis F.
• Application Number:
  US04/776,523
• Time in Patent Office: 806 Days
• US Class Current: 239/242
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 3/044 Tubular elements holding several outlets, e.g. apertured tubes, oscillating about an axis substantially parallel to the tubular element

Abstract

An improvement in a lawn sprinkler which conventionally employs a horizontally disposed, fixedly arched or bowed tube, having orifices therein, which oscillates to and fro to distribute the water in a fixed fan shape, comprising the replacement of the fixedly arched or bowed tube with a manually flexible, elastomeric tube, having orifices therein, so that the curvature of the arch or bow thereof may be manually changed in situ to provide sprays of select dimension.

Claims

1. A lawn sprinkler device comprising:

a base;

motive means on said base;

a water outlet conduit mounted for oscillatory rotation by said motive means;

support means on said base axially spaced from said outlet conduit, said support means including;

a sleeve member provided with threads, a shaft member slidably movable in said sleeve member, and means for maintaining said shaft member in said sleeve member at a select axial position, said means including a cylindrically hollow knob member having one end portion thereof internally provided with threads for engaging the threads of said sleeve member, and the other end portion thereof internally provided with an annular rim to provide a restricted passage through said cylindrical hollow; and

means connecting the other end of said shaft member and said annular rim for joint axial movement thereof and relative rotational movement therebetween; and

a manually flexible tube connecting said water outlet conduit at one end of said tube and one end of said shaft member at the other end of said tube, said tube having a plurality of orifices spaced along the length thereof.

2. The lawn sprinkler device of claim 1 wherein said other end of said shaft member is further characterized as having a butting engagement with one side of said annular rim, and said means of said cylindrically hollow knob member is further characterized as a screw member removably connected to said other end of said shaft member through said restricted passage, the head of said screw member being in butting engagement with the other side of said rim.

3. A lawn sprinkler device comprising:

a base;

motive means on said base;

a water outlet conduit mounteD for oscillatory rotation by said motive means;

support means on said base axially space spaced from said outlet conduit, said support means including;

a sleeve member;

a shaft member slidably movable in said sleeve member, and means for maintaining said shaft member in said sleeve member at a select axial position, said means including a plate member having as a slotted aperture therein fixed to the end of said sleeve, a lever member longitudinally movable through said slotted aperture in said plate member, said lever member swivally connected to said shaft member in said sleeve member; and

notches on said lever member for select retentive engagement with said plate member; and

a manually flexible tube connecting said water outlet conduit at one end of said tube and one end of said shaft member at the other end of said tube, said tube having a plurality of orifices spaced along the length thereof.