B05B 3/003
Spraying or sprinkling apparatus with moving outlet elements or moving deflecting elements
Official title: {with braking means, e.g. friction rings designed to provide a substantially constant revolution speed}
B05B3/003 (Spraying or sprinkling apparatus with moving outlet elements or moving deflecting elements) appears on 179 US grants and 149 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B05B- Granted patents
- 179
- Published applications
- 149
- Assignees
- 60
- Inventors
- 181
- Latest grant
- 14 Jul 2026
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| 2004 | 7 | 11 |
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| 2007 | 6 | 1 |
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| 2022 | 6 | 4 |
| 2023 | 5 | 2 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026 | 3 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Nozzle assembly14 Jul 2026US 12,678,838 B2Sonny's HFI Holdings, LLC
- Self regulating fluid bearing high pressure rotary retarder nozzle23 Jun 2026US 12,661,668 B2Stoneage, Inc.
- Irrigation sprinkler with multiple patterns and rotation speeds3 Mar 2026US 12,564,848 B2Nelson Irrigation Corporation
- Nozzle and sprinkler for center pivot end7 Jan 2025US 12,186,766 B2Nelson Irrigation Corporation
- Arc arrest mechanism for irrigation sprinklers24 Sep 2024US 12,097,522 B2The Toro Company
- Drive turbine for a rotary atomizer13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233239 A1
- Self regulating fluid bearing high perssure rotary retarder nozzle18 Jun 2026US 2026/0166573 A1Stoneage, Inc.
- Rotary nozzle with thin fluid film seal8 Jan 2026US 2026/0008070 A1Stoneage, Inc.
- High-pressure liquid rotary nozzle with friction brake10 Jul 2025US 2025/0222470 A1Stoneage, Inc.
- High-pressure liquid rotary nozzle with fluid brake mechanism19 Jun 2025US 2025/0196167 A1Stoneage, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Stream propelled rotary pop-up sprinkler with adjustable sprinkling pattern126US 5,058,806 ANelson Irrigation Corporation · 1991
- Part circle rotator with improved nozzle assembly92US 5,288,022 ANelson Irrigation Corporation · 1994
- Adjustable arc, adjustable flow rate sprinkler88US 6,651,905 B2Nelson Irrigation Corporation · 2003
- Sprinkler having a flow rate compensating slow speed rotary distributor85US 4,796,811 ANelson Irrigation Corporation · 1989
- Adjustable arc, adjustable flow rate sprinkler84US 7,032,836 B2Nelson Irrigation Corporation · 2006