Adjustable spray nozzle assembly for line marker
AssigneeThe Toro Company
InventorsBenjamin A. Bricko, Keith A. Goetz
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Abstract
A line marker carries a spray nozzle assembly for marking or painting a line on a horizontal surface. The spray nozzle assembly includes a mounting bracket that is clamped to a support arm in various pivotally adjusted positions. The mounting bracket carries both the spray nozzle and a pair of side shields. The spray nozzle is vertically adjustable up and down on the mounting bracket. The side shields have slides that slide transversely through the mounting bracket to provide horizontal adjustability of the side shields towards and away from one another. A clamping plate bears against the slides of the side shields when the clamping plate is tightened on the mounting bracket to hold the side shields in place on the mounting bracket.
Claims21
A spray nozzle assembly for a line marker having a support arm extending along an axis, which comprises:
- (a) a mounting bracket carried on the support arm;
- (b) a spray nozzle carried on the mounting bracket with a tip of the spray nozzle facing downwardly towards a horizontal surface to spray marking material in a line on the horizontal surface as the line marker moves over the horizontal surface;
- (c) a pair of side shields carried on the mounting bracket with the side shields being generally parallel to one another, arranged on opposite sides of the spray nozzle, and having lower edges arranged below the spray nozzle tip to help confine the marking material exiting from the spray nozzle tip;
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- (d) wherein the spray nozzle is vertically adjustable on the mounting bracket to move the spray nozzle tip towards and away from the lower edges of the side shields.
A spray nozzle assembly for a line marker having a support arm extending along an axis, which comprises:
- (a) a mounting bracket which extends along an axis that is substantially perpendicular to the axis of the support arm;
- (b) a first clamp for clamping the mounting bracket to the support arm in various pivotally adjusted positions around the axis of the support arm;
- (c) a spray nozzle carried on the mounting bracket for spraying a marking material downwardly to form a line on a horizontal surface during movement of the line marker, the spray nozzle being located vertically beneath the support arm and being vertically adjustable relative to the mounting bracket;
- (d) a second clamp for clamping the spray nozzle to the mounting bracket in various vertically adjusted positions on the mounting bracket;
- (e) a pair of side shields carried on the mounting bracket adjacent opposite sides of the spray nozzle, the side shields being horizontally adjustable on the mounting bracket to move towards and away from each other;
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- (f) at least one third clamp for clamping the side shields to the mounting bracket in various horizontally adjusted positions on the mounting bracket.
A spray nozzle assembly for a line marker, which comprises:
- (a) a substantially U-shaped mounting bracket having a pair of spaced vertical side walls and an end wall;
- (b) a spray nozzle carried on the mounting bracket with a tip of the spray nozzle facing downwardly towards a horizontal surface to spray marking material in a line on the horizontal surface as the line marker moves over the horizontal surface;
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- (c) a pair of side shields with one side shield being outboard of one side wall of the mounting bracket and the other side shield being disposed on the opposite side of the mounting bracket outboard of the other side wall of the mounting bracket, each side shield having a slide that points inwardly towards the side wall that the side shield lies outboard of with the slide being adjustably received in a slideway provided therefor between the side walls of the mounting bracket to allow each side shield to be adjusted horizontally towards and away from the side wall that the side shield lies outboard of;
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- (d) at least one first clamp to clamp the slides of the side shields in place in their respective slideways to hold the side shields in horizontally adjusted positions on the mounting bracket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.