Liquid manure spreader
AssigneeChromalloy American Corporation
InventorJames H. Hodgson
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Abstract
A liquid manure spreader has a wheeled chassis attachable to a farm tractor, a tank on the chassis, a centrifugal pump on a longitudinal axis immediately inside the front lower extremity of the tank and having a drive shaft extending through the front of the tank for attachment to a tractor power take-off. A discharge pipe extends upwardly from the pump just inside the tank front wall to a T at the top of the tank from one branch of which a horizontal discharge pipe extends through the rear of the tank and has a spray nozzle on its extremity. The other branch of the T extends through the front of the tank and a discharge line on said other branch may be plugged or may have a hose connected to it for supplying a liquid fertilizer injector that is carried on the tractor three point hitch.
Claims4
In a liquid manure spreader which has a wheeled chassis with an enclosed tank mounted thereon, and a power driven pump for discharging liquid manure from the tank through spray nozzle means at the rear of the tank, the improvement comprising:
- a pump casing within the tank at the front lower extremity thereof, the rear of said casing being open to the tank;
- a centrifugal pump in said casing which is on a longitudinal axis and has a drive shaft extending through the front wall of the tank for connection to a power source;
- and a discharge pipe which has a vertical run extending from the top of the pump casing within the front of the tank, and a horizontal run which extends from the top of said vertical run inside the top of the tank, and through the rear of the tank, the spray nozzle means being on said horizontal run of the discharge pipe outside the rear of the tank.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.