Swinging lawn sprinkler

• US 7,086,609 B2
• Filed: 05/24/2004
• Issued: 08/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Aquastar Industries, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Aquastar Industries, Inc.
• Inventors: Wang, Gary
• Primary Examiner(s): Scherbel, David A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Boeckmann, Jason
• Application Number:
  US10/851,142
• Publication Number:
  US 20050194465A1
• Time in Patent Office: 806 Days
• Field of Search: 239/232, 239/251, 239/263, 239/263.3, 239/381, 239/555, 239200-206, 239/533.14, 239/596, 239/233, 239/242
• US Class Current: 239/263.3
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 3/0436 by reversing the direction of rotation of the rotor itself

Abstract

A swinging lawn sprinkler including a sprinkling control unit with a gear-operated transmission mechanism attached to one side of a sprinkler mount. A limiting connector having a water outlet connector engaged at one side is correspondingly matched to the gear-operated transmission mechanism and a spraying member. A main driving wheel, an adjusting seat, and a water inlet connector are sequentially coupled at the other end of the gear-operated transmission mechanism. The adjusting seat is equipped with a limiting cavity for a power switching device made up of a plurality of power units in linkage with a pivoting shaft and a pair of limiting zones with elastic pieces and pressure guide members adapted to be pivotally mounted to activate the shift of angles of a flow switch plate.

Claims

1. A swinging lawn sprinkler, including a sprinkling control unit made up of a gear-operated transmission mechanism, a limiting connector, a water inlet connector, a water outlet connector, a main driving wheel, and an adjusting seat;

the present invention being characterized by that,

a power switching device is mounted to a limiting cavity of the adjusting seat to activate the shift of angles of a flow switch plate thereby, and is equipped with a plurality of power units extending radially inwards on an inner side in linkage with a rotating shaft thereof, and a pair of limiting zones symmetrically protruding on the inner side of the power switch device, each of the pair of limiting zones having an elastic piece and a pressure guide member located therein, wherein one end of the pressure guide member is supported by the elastic piece and extends inwards and abuts against one side of a triangular locating guide block located in the limiting cavity of the adjusting seat;

wherein when the power switching device is rotated, the power units will bend until an auxiliary force is produced, deforming the elastic pieces and moving each of the pressure guide members past an obstructing side of the locating guide block.

2. The swinging lawn sprinkler as claimed in claim 1 wherein the power switching device is formed of an annular frame body.

3. The swinging lawn sprinkler as claimed in claim 1 wherein each limiting zone of the power switching device thereof has a pair of stop blocks symmetrically protruding at the upper inner walls thereon to define a smaller guiding space there-between for one end of the pressure guide member to be led there-through.

4. The swinging lawn sprinkler as claimed in claim 1 wherein each of the pair of limiting zones of the power switching device has a locating protrusion, one elastic piece is located between each locating protrusion and each pressure guide member.

5. The swinging lawn sprinkler as claimed in claim 1 wherein each pressure guide member is provided with a stop ring disposed at the middle section thereof, resiliently supported by the elastic piece to abut against the stop blocks of the limiting zone of the power switching device thereby.