Motorized pump backpack liquid sprayer

• US 5,752,661 A
• Filed: 06/26/1996
• Issued: 05/19/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kit R. Lewis
• Original Assignee: Kit R. Lewis
• Inventors: Lewis, Kit R.
• Primary Examiner(s): JACYNA, J CASIMER
• Application Number:
  US08/669,745
• Time in Patent Office: 692 Days
• Field of Search: 239/152-154, 239/332, 222/175, 224/153
• US Class Current: 239/153
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 9/0861 the motor being electric
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 9/0888 Carrying means for knapsack sprayers

Abstract

A liquid spaying apparatus is formed by a molded plastic generally rectangular container having a forward surface contoured for contacting the back of a user in backpack fashion. A wheel and axle assembly secured to the forward lower portion of a container support panel in cooperation with a handle on the container permits movement of the apparatus in two wheel dolly fashion. An on board battery drives a motor/pump assembly for spraying liquid through a manually controlled wand.

Claims

1. A portable spraying apparatus, comprising;

a substantially rectangular molded liquid single compartment container having opposing forward and rearward, side, top and bottom walls, said forward wall having a concave surface, generally vertical when in use, contoured for abutting relation, when carried, on the back of a user, said top wall having a cap closed filler opening;

a liquid receiving sump depending from said bottom wall;

a container support panel, coextensive with the spacing between said side walls, vertically depending from said bottom wall on opposite sides of said sump, said support panel having a horizontal support edge;

a motor driven pump secured to the rearward surface of said support panel, said pump having an inlet port communicating with said sump and having an opposite outlet port;

a manually operated liquid spraying wand connected with the outlet port;

a storage battery supported by the rearward surface of said support panel and operatively connected with said motor for driving said pump;

a container support housing secured to said support panel for shielding said battery and said motor driven pump, said housing comprising a back panel and side panels respectively depending from said container back wall and side walls;

a housing bottom panel underlying said housing back panel and side panels;

an axle support projecting forwardly and downwardly from the lowermost portion of said support panel and terminating in a horizontal support portion in the plane of the support panel support edge;

an axle horizontally supported by said axle support;

a pair of wheels journaled by respective end portions of said axle; and

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an inverted U-shaped handle having legs slidably supported on respective sides of said container for manual mobile movement of said apparatus on a supporting surface in two wheel dolly fashion.

2. A portable spraying apparatus for carrying on the back of a user, comprising;

a molded liquid single compartment container having opposing forward and rear ward, side, top and bottom walls, said forward wall having a concave surface, generally vertical when in use, contoured for abutting relation, when carried, on the back of a user, said top wall having a cap closed filler opening;

a liquid receiving sump depending from said bottom wall;

a container support panel, coextensive with the spacing between said side walls, vertically depending from said bottom wall on opposite sides of said sump, said support panel having a horizontal support edge;

a motor driven pump secured to said support panel, said pump having an inlet port communicating with said sump and having an opposite outlet port connected with a liquid spraying wand;

a storage battery supported by the said support panel and operatively connected with said motor for driving said pump.

3. The spraying apparatus according to claim 2 and further including;

a container support housing secured to said support panel for shielding said battery and said motor driven pump, said housing comprising a back panel and side panels respectively depending from said container back wall and side walls; and

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a housing bottom panel underlying said housing back panel and side panels for supporting said container, in combination with said support panel, in a vertically upright position.

4. The spraying apparatus according to claim 3 and further including;

a two wheel axle assembly including a pair of wheels secured to and projecting forwardly from the lowermost portion of said support panel for supporting said spraying apparatus above the surface of the earth when inclined forwardly from the vertical; and

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handle means secured to said container for mobile movement of said spraying apparatus in two wheel dolly fashion.