Adjustable sprayer assembly
OwnerFrans Schuitemakerinventor
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Abstract
An adjustable sprayer assembly includes a frame supported by a pivoting wheel assembly and a pair of side wheel assemblies arranged in a tricycle fashion. An adjustable spray boom assembly and an operator boom assembly are connected to the frame. A container of a substance to be sprayed is mounted on the frame and selectively sprayed through nozzles on the spray boom as the sprayer assembly is pushed or pulled by an operator. An electrical meter connected to a generator mounted on one of the wheel assemblies can be provided so that an operator can monitor and maintain the speed of the sprayer assembly.
Claims19
An operator-propelled agricultural sprayer assembly of the push-pull type, comprising:
- (a) an elongate horizontal frame;
- (b) a pivoting wheel assembly vertically adjustably supporting said frame at a first end thereof, to selectively vary the height of the frame first end above a supporting surface;
- (c) a pair of laterally- and vertically-adjustable side wheel assemblies at a second end of said frame, each said side wheel assembly comprising:
- (i) a horizontal, laterally slidable arm;
- (ii) a wheel;
- (iii) vertically-adjustable support means mounting said wheel at a lower end thereof and joined at an upper end thereof to said laterally slidable arm, to selectively vary the height of the frame second end above a supporting surface;
- (d) a slot structure on said frame in which said laterally slidable arms of said side wheel assemblies are opposedly received and laterally slidably adjustable relative to one another, to selectively vary the lateral spacing between the wheels of the side wheel assemblies;
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- (e) a spray boom assembly vertically adjustably mounted on the frame, comprising:
- (i) laterally spaced-apart vertical bars, each of said vertical bars having a slot at an upper end and a lower end thereof;
- (ii) means for selectively and vertically adjustably securing each of said laterally spaced-apart vertical bars to said frame first end;
- (iii) a laterally extending cross bar, and laterally spaced-apart horizontal bars joined to said cross bar, said laterally spaced-apart horizontal bars being selectively and longitudinally adjustably securable in either the slots at the lower ends of the vertical bars, or the slots at the upper ends of the vertical bars;
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- (f) spraying means mounted on said frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.