Programmable drip irrigation emitter device
OwnerDonald T. McGrath, Louis Price +2inventors
InventorsDonald T. McGrath, Louis Price, Sachinkumar Pandya, Alberto Jose Acin Martinez
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Abstract
According to an aspect of the present invention disclosed herein, there is provided a programmable drip irrigation emitter device, comprising: an input port; a gathering chamber; a flow selection knob; an orifice sized to deliver the desired flow rate of water; one or more output ports; an output distribution chamber, wherein the water is splashed against the chamber surface while being redirected and channeled to pass through several diffusor pin arrays used to achieve nearly uniform water flow rate at the output ports; and an external case comprised of a top piece and a bottom piece.
Claims7
A programmable drip irrigation emitter device, comprising:
- an input port;
- a gathering chamber;
- a flow selection knob;
- an orifice sized to deliver the desired flow rate of water;
- one or more output ports;
- an output distribution chamber, wherein the water is splashed against the chamber surface while being redirected and channeled to pass through several diffusor pin arrays used to achieve nearly uniform water flow rate at the output ports;
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- an external case comprised of a top piece and a bottom piece.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.