Drip irrigation process
AssigneeNaan Mechanical Works
InventorsMoshe Gorney, Eldad Dinur
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Abstract
Drip irrigation apparatus including a continuous outer tube and a plurality of low rate determining inserts located at desired locations therealong interiorly of the outer tube, the inserts being selected to have one or more of the following features; an outlet chamber which extends over a significant portion of the circumference of the outer tube; a configuration which allows substantial flattening of the outer tube when not in use, a pressure responsive flow controller; a pressure reducing pathway formed solely or partially by the insert and an air pocket spring defined wholly or partially by the insert for cooperation with a pressure responsive flow controller, thereby providing a flow controller which integrally formed as a single unit.
Claims3
Drip irrigation apparatus comprising;
- a continuous unseamed outer tube and a plurality of flow rate determining inserts located at desired locations therealong interiorly of said outer tube, said flow rate determining inserts each defining a water inlet communicating with the interior of said outer tube and a part of a flow rate determining pathway which is also defined by the cooperating inner surface of said outer tube, said insert extending over less than the entire circumference of the inner surface of said outer tube.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.