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US 12,678,815 B1Granted
Device and method for repeatedly installing drip irrigation emitters
AssigneeJake Angles
InventorsJacob Angles, Ricardo Tan
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Abstract
The invention provides a device and method for repeatedly installing drip irrigation emitters into drip irrigation tubing. The device can be provided with a magazine capable of holding a plurality of drip irrigation emitters. The magazine feeds individual drip irrigation emitters to a plunger and sleeve arrangement that cooperate to guide the drip irrigation emitters through the device's housing and into a section of drip irrigation tubing.
Claims18
A device for repeatedly installing drip irrigation emitters, the device comprising:
- a) a housing;
- b) a magazine;
- c) a sleeve slidably disposed in said housing, wherein said sleeve (i) is adapted to receive a drip irrigation emitter from said magazine, and (ii) comprises at least one notch in a lower surface of said sleeve;
- d) a plunger slidably disposed in said sleeve;
- e) at least one locking block that is adapted to mate with said at least one notch;
- and
- f) a cradle that is adapted to receive a section of a drip irrigation tubing;
- wherein said at least one locking block, once mated with said at least one notch, releasably locks said sleeve in a retracted position within said device.
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A device for repeatedly installing drip irrigation emitters, the device comprising:
- a) a housing;
- b) a magazine that is adapted to contain a plurality of drip irrigation emitters;
- c) a sleeve slidably disposed in said housing, wherein (i) said sleeve includes a pair of sleeve arms and an aperture at a forward end of said sleeve, (ii) said aperture is dimensioned and adapted to receive a drip irrigation emitter from said plurality of drip irrigation emitters when said plurality of drip irrigation emitters are housed within said magazine, and (iii) said sleeve comprises at least one notch in a lower surface of said pair of sleeve arms;
- d) a plunger slidably disposed between said pair of sleeve arms;
- e) at least one locking block that is dimensioned to mate with said at least one notch;
- and
- f) a cradle that is adapted to receive a section of a drip irrigation tubing;
- wherein said plunger is adapted to drive said drip irrigation emitter into said section of drip irrigation tubing when said drip irrigation emitter is received within said aperture and said section of drip irrigation tubing is received within said cradle;
- g) wherein said at least one locking block, once mated with said at least one notch, releasably locks said sleeve in a retracted position within said device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.