Irrigation dripper
OwnerThomas A. Martininventor
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Abstract
An irrigation dripper (10) has a screw threaded shank (12) terminating in a head (14). The shank (12) is tapered and has an axially extending groove or slit (16) are formed on the shank (12) which in use is fitted in a hole formed in a pipe (26). Water from the pipe (26) is discharged through the slit (18) for irrigating plants.
Claims2
An irrigation drippper including a head integrally formed with a shank which is tapered from the end of the shank adjacent the head and towards the free end of the shank, the shank having helical screw threads and an open slit which extends throughout the length of the shank, and the head having a conical formation on its undersurface in which the apex of the cone has a diameter which is no less than the diameter of the end of the shank adjacent the head and merges with the end of the shank at the head, the base of the conical formation being connected to a concentric depending peripheral skirt formed around the undersurface of the head.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.