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US 12,343,747 B2Granted
Multi-axis articulating and rotary spray system and method
AssigneeTrinity Bay Worx, LLC
InventorsMichael Shawn Zilai, Charles Horace Camp
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides a system and method articulating and rotary spray system for fluids that includes a first drive for rotating a mast for different headings and a second drive for rotating a nozzle for different pitches at any time with or without rotation of the mast. The method and system uses a system of interacting gears that rotate a control rod in variable synchronization to control the nozzle pitch relative to the mast heading while the control rod orbits about a center of rotation of the rotating mast along a longitudinal axis.
Claims4
A multi-axis rotary spray system, comprising:
- a heading drive;
- a pitch drive;
- a mast assembly coupled to the heading drive and the pitch drive, comprising:
- a flexible mast shaft comprising a fluid conduit and a flexible pitch member;
- a plurality of housings coupled to the flexible mast shaft at intervals along the mast shaft;
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- a plurality of rotatable nozzles rotatably coupled to the plurality of housings and to the flexible pitch member;
- the heading drive rotating the mast assembly to control a heading of the nozzles, and the pitch driving moving the pitch member to control the pitch of the nozzles while the heading changes.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.