Sprinkler with magnetic nutating mechanism and related method
AssigneeNelson Irrigation Corporation
InventorsCraig Nelson, Lee A. Perkins
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AssigneeNelson Irrigation Corporation
InventorsCraig Nelson, Lee A. Perkins
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A sprinkler head includes: a body assembly including an adapter, a nozzle, a spindle and a first magnet, the spindle supporting a spool having a pair of axially-spaced radially-oriented spool flanges; a nutating cage loosely mounted on the spindle, between the radial flanges of the spool, the nutating cage supporting a second magnet in close proximity to the first magnet; a water distribution plate carried by the nutating cage and adapted to be impinged upon by a stream emitted from the nozzle. The first and second magnets are arranged with like poles facing each other such that the second magnet is repulsed from the first magnet, but when the stream impinges on the water distribution plate, the second magnet is moved towards the first magnet, with magnetic repulsion force increasing and causing the nutating cage and the water distribution plate to tilt off axis.
A sprinkler head comprising:
A sprinkler comprising an adapter and a hollow spindle with a nozzle secured between one end of said adapter and an adjacent end of said spindle, said spindle extending beyond said nozzle in a downstream direction terminating at an opposite end, said spindle supporting a spool downstream of said nozzle, said spool having upper and lower radial flanges, and a first annular magnet axially between said lower radial flange of said opposite end of said spindle;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.