SPRAY SUPPORT FRAME

• US 3,874,593 A
• Filed: 10/23/1973
• Issued: 04/01/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Theodore G. Wilt
• Original Assignee: Theodore G. Wilt
• Inventors: Wilt, Theodore G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ward, Jr., Robert S.
• Application Number:
  US05/408,438
• Time in Patent Office: 525 Days
• Field of Search: 239/159,161,162,163,164,166,169,172,175,176,587,588 111/6,7.2,7.4,7.1 222/176 47/1.7
• US Class Current: 239/166
• CPC Class Codes: A01B 49/04 Combinations of soil-working tools with non-soil-working tools, e.g. planting tools
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 25/09 Watering arrangements making use of movable installations on wheels or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 7/00 Special adaptations or arrangements of liquid-spraying apparatus for purposes covered by this subclass

Abstract

A spray support frame for use with an earth working apparatus, such as a planter, disc, or the like, which includes a mobile frame drawn by a tractor or the like and a container which is adapted to contain spray material and suitably carried on the frame or tractor and a duct connecting same to a spray nozzle. The spray support frame includes a pair of opposed rails each positioned and maintained in clamping engagement with a respective opposite side of a support member mounted on the mobile frame. The support frame including an arm having the spray nozzle mounted on one end thereof, said arm being pivotally mounted on one of the rails and engaged with the other rail to maintain the arm in a selected position to thereby position the spray nozzle at a selected position relative to the ground surface.

Claims

1. A spray support frame for use in an agricultural apparatus, said spray support frame comprising:

a. first and second opposed rails each positioned in engagement with a support member on an agricultural apparatus;

b. means for urging each of said first and second rails into and maintaining same in clamped engagement with the support member;

c. an arm pivotally mounted on one of said first and second rails;

d. spray means supported on said arm;

e. means communicating said spray means with a source of spray material; and

f. means on the other of said first and second rails for frictionally engaging said arm to retain said arm and said spray means thereon in a selected position relative to a ground surface.

2. A spray support frame as set forth in claim 1 wherein:

a. said first and second rails are each spaced elongated side-by-side members;

b. said arm has opposite sides thereof positioned between said side-by-side members of the other of said first and second rails; and

c. said means for frictionally engaging said arm to retain said arm and said spray means thereon in a selected position comprises means for effecting and maintaining clamping engagement of the side-by-side members of the other of said first and second rails with said arm thereby retaining same and said spray means thereon in a selected position.

3. A spray support frame as set forth in claim 2 wherein:

A. said arm is an elongated member having a free end thereof adapted to receive and support said spray means thereon; and

b. said spray means includes a spray nozzle and means for positioning and supporting the spray nozzle in a selected lateral spacing from said arm.

4. means engaging each of the side-by-side members of each of said rails to draw said respective side-by-side members toward each other and into clamping engagement with said first and second elongated members and to draw the side-by-side members of the other of said rails toward each other and into frictional engagement with respective flat sides of the portion of said arm therebetween to thereby retain said arm and said spray nozzle thereon in a selected position relative to the ground surface.

5. A spray support frame as set forth in claim 1 wherein:

a. said spray support frame includes spaced means extending between said opposed rails and engageable with said support member for positioning and retaining said spray support frame in a selected position on said support member;

b. said arm is an elongated member having a free end thereof adapted to receive and support said spray means thereon; and

c. said spray means includes a spray nozzle and means for supporting and positioning said spray nozzle in spaced relation with said arm.

6. A spray support for use in an agricultural apparatus comprising:

a. at least one spray support frame adjustably mounted on a support member on an agricultural apparatus and having a spray nozzle mounted thereon, said spray support frame including;