GB2403123A - Vortex garden sprinkler - Google Patents
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- GB2403123A GB2403123A GB0314656A GB0314656A GB2403123A GB 2403123 A GB2403123 A GB 2403123A GB 0314656 A GB0314656 A GB 0314656A GB 0314656 A GB0314656 A GB 0314656A GB 2403123 A GB2403123 A GB 2403123A
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
- B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
- B05B1/00—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means
- B05B1/34—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means designed to influence the nature of flow of the liquid or other fluent material, e.g. to produce swirl
- B05B1/3405—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means designed to influence the nature of flow of the liquid or other fluent material, e.g. to produce swirl to produce swirl
- B05B1/341—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means designed to influence the nature of flow of the liquid or other fluent material, e.g. to produce swirl to produce swirl before discharging the liquid or other fluent material, e.g. in a swirl chamber upstream the spray outlet
- B05B1/3421—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means designed to influence the nature of flow of the liquid or other fluent material, e.g. to produce swirl to produce swirl before discharging the liquid or other fluent material, e.g. in a swirl chamber upstream the spray outlet with channels emerging substantially tangentially in the swirl chamber
- B05B1/3426—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means designed to influence the nature of flow of the liquid or other fluent material, e.g. to produce swirl to produce swirl before discharging the liquid or other fluent material, e.g. in a swirl chamber upstream the spray outlet with channels emerging substantially tangentially in the swirl chamber the channels emerging in the swirl chamber perpendicularly to the outlet axis
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
- A01G—HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING
- A01G25/00—Watering gardens, fields, sports grounds or the like
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
- B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
- B05B15/00—Details of spraying plant or spraying apparatus not otherwise provided for; Accessories
- B05B15/60—Arrangements for mounting, supporting or holding spraying apparatus
- B05B15/62—Arrangements for supporting spraying apparatus, e.g. suction cups
- B05B15/622—Arrangements for supporting spraying apparatus, e.g. suction cups ground-penetrating
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Abstract
A vortex garden sprinkler is comprised of a cylindrical shaped water chamber 4,which has a domed shaped top with a counter sunk water outlet 1,the sprinkler has a water inlet pipe 2,that allows pressurized water inlet 6,to be vectored into an anti-clockwise flow of pressurized water (3,Fig 2) that forms a vortex within the sprinkler water chamber 4. The pressurized rotating water rapidly rises to the top of the water chamber and exits the sprinkler in a fine spray mist fountain. A clockwise vortex is achieved by reversing the flow of pressurised water (3,Fig 2) by moving the water inlet pipe 2, to the bottom left hand side of the water chamber 4. The whole sprinkler is held into position with a tapered crossed ground spike 7,which is attatched or moulded to the bottom of the sprinkler.And is then driven firmly into the ground for a secure footing.
Description
2403 1 23 Vortex Garden Sprinkler This invention relates to a garden
sprinkler which is extremely simple to set up and use in any home garden or greenhouse,it will provide a flawless spray mist or fountain for the watering of plants,once finished with,due to it's small size, it can be easily stored in any convenient space such as cupboards,shelves or even tool boxes.
Most garden sprinklers have small moving mechanical parts which allow the water to be distributed evenly across a certain area,these moving parts are prone to eventual wear and damage.These types of design also rely on multiple hole or "shower head" style of delivery,which also may become blocked with frequent use,and may not provide an even soaking.
An object of this invention is to provide a flawless spray mist or fountain for plants within the vacinity of the vortex garden sprinkler. The sprinkler has the added advantage of having no moving or mechanical parts what so ever.
Accordingly,this invention provides it's flawless spray mist or fountain by using the physics of the vortex.this is acheived by forcing vectored water into a cylindrical container in such a way that the pressurized water is rotated within the cylinder and is forced out through a single counter sunk hole which is situated at the top dead centre of the cylinder water chamber.The sprinkler is held firmly into place by the use of a pointed or tappered crossed ground spike which is attatched or moulded to the bottom of the cylinder chamber,and then the whole structure is driven into the ground.
The vortex garden sprinkler should be made of plastics material,it could be made of metal but this could rust and perish over time,and the metal materials would be more expensive to use than plastics.
A preferred embodiment of the invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawing in which: FIGURE 1 shows a sectioned side view of the whole sprinkler.
FIGURE 2 shows a sectioned top view of the whole sprinkler.
As shown in Figure 1,the vortex sprinkler is a cylindrical container with a slightly domed top,which has a water inlet pipe 2,situated at the bottom right hand side of the sprinkler to allow water inlet 6,into the water chamber 4.The sprinkler has a counter sunk water outlet 1, which is located at the top dead centre of the sprinkler water chamber 4.
Attatched or moulded to the centre bottom of the sprinkler is a tapered crossed ground spike 7,which is driven firmly into the ground prior to use to ensure a secure footing.
Figure 2 shows a sectioned top veiw of the sprinkler when in use,the pressurized water flows in through the water inlet 6,and is vectored into the bottom right hand side of the water chamber 4,by the water inlet pipe 2.This creates an anti-clockwise flow of pressurized water 3,which produces a vortex within the sprinkler water chamber 4.The water rotating in the vortex then rises to the top of the water chamber 4,and exits the sprinkler by the counter sunk water outlet l,producing a flawless spray mist or fountain.
The vortex garden sprinkler is dictated to by the natural rotation of the earth,hence,the flow of pressurized water 3,within the sprinkler is rotating in an anti-clockwise vortex as shown in Figure 2.This direction of motion will only allow the sprinkler to produce it's spray mist or fountain in the northern hemisphere of the globe.
To use this principle in the southern hemisphere,the flow of pressurized water 3,has to be reversed in the water chamber 4,to produce a clockwise vortex within the sprinkler.This can be acheived simply by reversing the position of the water inlet pipe 2,to the bottom left hand side of Figure l.Then this will produce the spray mist fountain in the southern hemisphere of the globe.
The vortex home garden sprinkler can be used and placed anywhere in the home garden to give an even soaking to all plant foliage within it's vacinity,it can be placed amongst dense plant foliage and left to soak plants and ground.
The sprinkler can also be used in a greenhouse by simply placing it into a plant pot of soil,left in the centre of the floor of the greenhouse, switch on the water feed to the sprinkler,and the sprinkler will evenly soak every plant within it's vacinity.
Claims (6)
1. A garden sprinkler which uses the pressure of forced water and the physical properties of the vortex to create a spray mist fountain.
2. A garden sprinkler as in Calm 1 uses no moving or mechanical parts to produce it's spray mist fountain.
3. A garden sprinkler as in Claim 2 can be placed anywhere in the home garden/greenhouse,and is secured into place by use of a tapered crossed ground spike.
4. A garden sprinkler as in Claim 3 is used to hydrate/water home garden/greenhouse horticultural foliage.
5. A garden sprinkler as claimed in any preceding claim which is made from plastics material or metal,or a combination from both these materials.
6. A garden sprinkler substatially as herein described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
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| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| GB0314656A GB2403123A (en) | 2003-06-24 | 2003-06-24 | Vortex garden sprinkler |
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| GB0314656A GB2403123A (en) | 2003-06-24 | 2003-06-24 | Vortex garden sprinkler |
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| GB0314656D0 GB0314656D0 (en) | 2003-07-30 |
| GB2403123A true GB2403123A (en) | 2004-12-29 |
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Cited By (1)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7303148B2 (en) | 2005-08-12 | 2007-12-04 | Tracy L Campbell | Lawn sprinkler system |
Citations (8)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB614824A (en) * | 1946-08-01 | 1948-12-23 | Millicent Turner Gissing | Improvements in or relating to water spraying and like sprinkling devices |
| FR2362581A1 (en) * | 1976-08-23 | 1978-03-24 | Manceau Rene | Spray for watering seeds or plants - has cylinder supplied tangentially with water and outlet orifice at top bevelled to produce atomisation |
| SU728928A1 (en) * | 1977-03-01 | 1980-04-25 | Предприятие П/Я М-5830 | Sprinkling nozzle |
| US4214701A (en) * | 1977-09-02 | 1980-07-29 | Gerhard Beckmann | Irrigation valve device |
| SU1165475A1 (en) * | 1984-04-20 | 1985-07-07 | Грозненское Научно-Производственное Объединение "Промавтоматика" | Centrifugal sprayer of liquid |
| GB2157978A (en) * | 1984-05-04 | 1985-11-06 | Gunasekara Edward Leslie | Liquid dispensing apparatus |
| ES2008240A6 (en) * | 1987-09-29 | 1989-07-16 | Celaya Atorrasagasti Juan Ramo | Irrigation device for aspersion. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) |
| US4884751A (en) * | 1988-04-13 | 1989-12-05 | Lil' Duke Sprinkler, Inc. | Lawn sprinkler |
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Patent Citations (8)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB614824A (en) * | 1946-08-01 | 1948-12-23 | Millicent Turner Gissing | Improvements in or relating to water spraying and like sprinkling devices |
| FR2362581A1 (en) * | 1976-08-23 | 1978-03-24 | Manceau Rene | Spray for watering seeds or plants - has cylinder supplied tangentially with water and outlet orifice at top bevelled to produce atomisation |
| SU728928A1 (en) * | 1977-03-01 | 1980-04-25 | Предприятие П/Я М-5830 | Sprinkling nozzle |
| US4214701A (en) * | 1977-09-02 | 1980-07-29 | Gerhard Beckmann | Irrigation valve device |
| SU1165475A1 (en) * | 1984-04-20 | 1985-07-07 | Грозненское Научно-Производственное Объединение "Промавтоматика" | Centrifugal sprayer of liquid |
| GB2157978A (en) * | 1984-05-04 | 1985-11-06 | Gunasekara Edward Leslie | Liquid dispensing apparatus |
| ES2008240A6 (en) * | 1987-09-29 | 1989-07-16 | Celaya Atorrasagasti Juan Ramo | Irrigation device for aspersion. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) |
| US4884751A (en) * | 1988-04-13 | 1989-12-05 | Lil' Duke Sprinkler, Inc. | Lawn sprinkler |
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| http://www.hozelock.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ProductDisplay?prrfnbr=4913&prmenbr=361&cgrfnbr=4929&cgmenbr=361&site=W * |
Cited By (1)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7303148B2 (en) | 2005-08-12 | 2007-12-04 | Tracy L Campbell | Lawn sprinkler system |
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