Side driving element for an irrigation device with an oscillating arm

• US 5,749,524 A
• Filed: 12/28/1995
• Issued: 05/12/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 01/03/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Claber SpA
• Original Assignee: Claber SpA
• Inventors: Roman, Gianfranco
• Primary Examiner(s): Kashnikow, Andres
• Assistant Examiner(s): Douglas, Lisa Ann
• Application Number:
  US08/580,520
• Time in Patent Office: 866 Days
• Field of Search: 239/237, 239/240, 239/241, 239/242, 239/246, 239/264, 239/DIG. 1
• US Class Current: 239/240
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 239/01 Pattern sprinkler

Abstract

A side driving element for an irrigation device with an oscillating arm comprises a casing. Inside the casing there is rotatably housed a turbine rotor having an axis of rotation parallel to that of the oscillating arm of the irrigation device. The rotor powers the oscillating arm. An external mouth connects to a supply conduit of an irrigation liquid. The mouth has an axis lying in a plane orthogonal to the axis of rotation of the rotor, and communicates with an internal rectilinear conduit aligned with the mouth and directed toward the rotor, so that a jet of irrigation liquid supplied by said supply conduit is not subjected to deviations before reaching the rotor.

Claims

1. A side driving element for an irrigation device with an oscillating sprinkling arm, comprising:

a casing having a bottom wall forming a flat resisting plane arranged for sliding movement, a top wall and two side walls, the oscillating arm extending from one of the two side walls, a turbine rotor being housed inside said casing, the turbine rotor having an axis of rotation parallel to that of the oscillating arm of the irrigation device, said rotor driving the oscillating arm, and

an external mouth extending from said casing in a position close to said resting plane for connecting a supply conduit of an irrigation liquid,

wherein said mouth has an axis parallel to said resting plane and orthogonal to the axis of rotation of the rotor, the mouth communicating with an internal rectilinear conduit aligned with said mouth and directed toward said rotor, so that a fully rectilinear liquid supply path extends from said external mouth to said rotor.

2. A slide element according to claim 1, characterized in that inside said casing there are means for the transmission of the motion of the rotor to a rotating hub of a driving means of the oscillating arm.

3. A side element according to claim 2, characterized in that said means for the transmission of motion comprise three first toothed wheels, integral with a first shaft integral with said rotor, and three second toothed wheels, integral with a second shaft integral with said hub.

4. A side element according to claim 3, characterized in that each of said first and second toothed wheels comprises a first toothed crown having a larger diameter and a second toothed crown having a smaller diameter, the first toothed crown of each first toothed wheel meshing with a second toothed crown of a respective second toothed wheel, and the second toothed crown of each first toothed wheel meshing with the first toothed crown of said respective second toothed wheel.

5. A side element according to claim 2, characterized in that said rotor is housed in a first chamber wherein there extends said internal conduit and that communicates with a second chamber wherein there are housed said means for the transmission of motion and that is provided with an opening for the insertion of the oscillating arm.

6. A side element according to claim 1 characterized in that said casing is provided with a pair of seats for the insertion under pressure of stems for connecting to an opposite element of the irrigation device.

7. A side element according to claim 1, characterized in that said casing comprises two box-like parts that are fastened together by bolts.

8. A side element according to claim 1, characterized in that said external mouth is housed in a lateral niche of said casing.

9. A side element according to claim 1, characterized in that said rectlinear internal conduit is conical and has a cross-section that decreases from the mouth to the rotor.

10. A side driving element for an irrigation device with an oscillating sprinkling arm, comprising:

a casing having a bottom wall forming a flat resting plane arranged for sliding movement, a top wall and two side walls, the oscillating arm extending from one of the two side walls, a turbine rotor being housed inside said casing, the turbine rotor having an axis of rotation parallel to that of the oscillating arm of the irrigation device, said rotor driving the oscillating arm, and

an external mouth extending from said casing in a position close to said resting plane for connecting a supply conduit of an irrigation liquid, said mouth having an axis parallel to said resting plane and orthogonal to the axis of rotation of the rotor,

wherein irrigation liquid supplied by said supply conduit upon entering the mouth travels in a straight line to a point where the irrigation liquid impinges on the turbine rotor.