Self-guided reversible two speed row crop irrigator
OwnerHubert Tidwellinventor
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Abstract
A wheeled irrigator carriage has a fulcrum around which a piping frame can rock at the ends of crop rows to lift one traction wheel of the irrigator and lower a second traction wheel at the other end of the irrigator into driving engagement with the ground. The second traction wheel has a power drive reversing member associated therewith. An independent higher speed power drive for the first-named traction wheel is provided. The piping frame also serves to deliver irrigating water from a remote source to a pair of spaced irrigation booms on the piping frame which may span several rows of crops. A massive hose reel is supported symmetrically above the fulcrum.
Claims8
A row crop irrigator comprising a wheeled carriage having a fulcrum, a piping frame rockably supported on the fulcrum and extending fore and aft thereof, a hose reel mounted upon the piping frame above the fulcrum and being rockable with the piping frame and including tubular supports communicating with the interior of the piping frame whereby a hose coiled on said reel may deliver irrigation water through said supports to the interior of the piping frame, fore and aft transverse irrigation booms on the piping frame near the front and rear thereof and on opposite sides of the wheeled carriage, a slow speed powered traction wheel unit bodily mounted on one end of the piping frame and including a ground-engaging reversing element, and a higher speed powered traction wheel unit bodily mounted on the other end of the piping frame, and transmission means drivingly interconnecting said powered traction wheel units whereby both units can be driven at said slow speed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.