Portable, wheeled electric sprayer with pressurized liquid reservoir

• US 4,135,669 A
• Filed: 08/30/1977
• Issued: 01/23/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Edward B. Bridges, Lillian K. Bridges
• Original Assignee: Edward B. Bridges, Lillian K. Bridges
• Inventors: Bridges, Edward B., Bridges, Lillian K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Saifer, Robert W.
• Application Number:
  US05/829,198
• Time in Patent Office: 511 Days
• Field of Search: 239/146, 239/373, 239/390, 239/391
• US Class Current: 239/373
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 9/007 At least a part of the apparatus, e.g. a container, being provided with means, e.g. wheels, for allowing its displacement relative to the ground
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 9/04 with pressurised or compressible container aerosol containers B65D83/14; with pump

Abstract

A hollow pressure vessel is provided and includes an upwardly opening filler neck supported from an upper portion thereof and a removable fluid pressure sealing closure is carried by the filler neck. A liquid outlet tube opens upwardly through an upper portion of the vessel from the interior thereof in sealed engagement with the upper vessel portion. The lower end of the tube opens outwardly within a lower portion of the vessel and a flexible pressure hose has one end connected to the upper end of the tube outwardly of the pressure vessel. A tubular spray wand has one end connected to the other end of the hose and the spray wand includes a discharge spray head on the other end thereof. In addition, the spray wand includes a control valve therefor intermediate the opposite ends of the wand for controlling the flow of liquid through the wand and a motorized compressor is mounted on an upper portion of the vessel and includes a compressed air outlet opening into the interior of the vessel in sealed engagement therewith. The compressed air outlet opens into the interior of the filler neck below the removable closure thereof and the latter includes an exterior pressure gauge opening into the interior of the neck through the closure. Further, the neck includes a manually openable and closable vent valve diametrically opposite the compressed air outlet opening into the interior of the filler neck.

Claims

1. A lightweight pressure sprayer assembly comprising a hollow pressure vessel, a filler neck opening into the interior of an upper portion of said vessel and including a removable fluid pressure sealing closure therefor, an upstanding liquid outlet tube opening upwardly through said upper portion of said vessel from the interior thereof in sealed engagement with said upper portion, the lower end of said tube opening outwardly within a lower portion of said vessel, a flexible pressure hose having one end connected to the upper end of said tube, a tubular spray wand having one end connected to the other end of said hose, said spray wand including a discharge spray head on the other end thereof and including a control valve therefor intermediate the opposite ends of said wand for controlling the flow of liquid through said wand, and a lightweight motorized air compressor mounted on said upper portion of said vessel and having a compressed air outlet opening into the interior of said vessel in sealed engagement therewith, said air outlet opening into the interior of said neck inwardly of said closure, said closure including an exterior pressure gauge supported therefrom opening into the interior of said vessel through said closure, said neck including a manually openable and closable vent valve supported therefrom for selectively venting the interior of said vessel to the ambient atmosphere, said sprayer including wheeled support means supported from a lower portion of said vessel by which said sprayer may be readily rolled over the ground, a generally horizontal mounting plate supported from and spaced vertically above said upper portion, said motorized air compressor being mounted atop said mounting plate and including an upper handle portion from which the total weight of said sprayer assembly may be supported and by which said sprayer assembly may be hand carried and/or lifted as one desires, the vertical spacing between said upper portion and said mounting plate providing a space therebetween for said upper end of said outlet tube and said one end of said pressure hose, said pressure gauge and vent valve being supported from said closure and neck, respectively, whereby a person preparing to remove said closure for the purpose of adding liquid to the interior of said tank through said neck will be reminded to vent the interior of said tank to the ambient atmosphere through said vent valve before removing said closure.

2. The combination of claim 1, wherein said discharge spray head is swivelly supported from said other end of said wand.

3. The combination of claim 1, wherein said other end of said hose and said one end of said wand include coacting means removably supporting said wand from said hose.

4. The combination of claim 1, wherein said vent valve and air outlet open into diametrically opposite portions of said filler neck.