Automatic water-spray fertilizing apparatus

• US 5,193,744 A
• Filed: 04/23/1991
• Issued: 03/16/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Shunichi Nakata
• Original Assignee: Trans Global Incorporated
• Inventors: Goldstein, Gad
• Primary Examiner(s): Kashnikow, Andres
• Assistant Examiner(s): TRAINOR, CHRISTOPHER
• Application Number:
  US07/689,561
• Time in Patent Office: 693 Days
• Field of Search: 239/304, 239/307, 239/63, 239/727, 239/724, 239/310, 239/67, 239/69
• US Class Current: 239/69
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 25/16 Control of watering
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 12/1418 for supplying several liquids or other fluent materials in selected proportions to a single spray outlet controlling ratio of two or more flows of fluid G05D11/02
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 7/32 the fed liquid or other fluent material being under pressure

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus controlled by computers, for applicating fertilizers through automatic water-spray in a golf link, farm, garden, indoor garden and flower-vegetable garden on a terrace and roof of a building. The apparatus comprises a storage pump for pumping up water from a water source; filter devices for filtering the thus pumped-up water; injector devices for mixing fertilizers, agricultrual chemicals, bacteria and the like with the water; pressure regulating valves for uniformalizing the pressure of the water mixed with fertilizers and the like in a plurality of branched paths; water-spray devices for spraying the water thus uniformalized in pressure; and a control device for organically controlling the above devices.

Claims

1. An automatic water-spray apparatus comprising a water source and a lift pump for pumping water from said water source;

filter devices for filtering the pumped water having an inlet pipe connected to said lift pump and an outlet pipe extending therefrom through a water metering device;

differential pressure sensing means connected to said inlet and said outlet pipes of said filter devices;

backwashing means connected to backwash said filter devices under control of said differential pressure sensing means;

a central computer for controlling the quantities and timing of spraying of fertilizers, agricultural chemicals and bacteria mixed with the water;

a pump computer connected to said central computer to control the operation of said lift pump

a weather station data collection means to collect and feed weather information to said central computer;

at least one area spray apparatus to spray at least one predetermined area with the water mixed with the fertilizers, agricultural chemicals, and bacteria including

injector devices for mixing the fertilizers, agricultural chemicals, and bacteria with the water;

said injector devices including

storage tanks for the fertilizers, agricultural chemicals, and bacteria;

a fertilizer pump operated by water from said outlet pipe passing through said fertilizer pump, having an inlet connected in the path of the water downstream of said filter devices and an outlet connected in the path of the water downstream of said water metering device and a second inlet connected to said storage tanks for the fertilizers, agricultural chemicals, and bacteria;

said at least one area spray apparatus further including a group of sprayers located in each of said at least one predetermined areas to be sprayed for spraying the fertilizers, agricultural chemicals, and bacteria mixed with the water from said injector devices and the water from said water metering device;

a water distribution slave computer for each of said area spray apparatus connected to said central computer for controlling the distribution of the water to said group of sprayers and controlling the amount of water spray from said group of sprayers in accordance with the area being sprayed by said group of sprayers.