Quotables
"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."
Karl Marx
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7300004 | Traveling sprinkler incorporating automatic water supply valve docking station A docking station module for fluidly connecting a mobile irrigation apparatus to a stationary hydrant water supply valve mounted on a water supply pipe, the module comprising a hydrant valve actuator resiliently suspended from a frame for floating movement in at lea... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7264678 | Process for cleaning a surface A process is described wherein a surface, for example the exterior surface of a vehicle, is contacted with a cleaning composition capable of rendering the surface treated hydrophilic and then rinsed with purified rinse water. Preferably the process also involves a p... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7182145 | Water bucket system A water bucket system having a water bucket is provided. The water bucket system comprises computer controlled loading of the water bucket from a water source, partial drop control means for controlling the drop of water from the water bucket onto a desired location... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7159794 | Portable wash station This invention is a station for aiding in the washing of automobiles and other similar objects. The station is a wheeled cart that contains everything needed for the job. Space is provided for storage on the station of wash or rinse water; hose for connecting the st... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7140563 | Linear-feed irrigation apparatus and related method A linear water feed apparatus for use in agricultural irrigation includes a linear-move machine with a mobile truss assembly supporting a plurality of individual sprinklers and adapted for movement in a specified direction across a field to be irrigated. The truss a... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7077070 | High clearance fertilizer application system An application system for applying nitrogen to the soil. The system is a tool bar provided with a plurality of long arms, coupled to disks. Coupled behind the disks is a nitrogen dispensing system, coupled to a large fluid tank on a vehicle. By utilizing a high clea... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7004405 | Syringe unit The invention comprises a golf course treatment platform having a frame with a spool of garden hose wound onto the spool, control piping on the platform, and a chemical tank whereby water may be introduced into the control piping a valved directly into the garden ho... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6857478 | Packaged residential fire sprinkler system A fire sprinkler system assembled as a complete package 13D-13R-U.L. listed components including a fire pump/motor, electric controller, pipe fittings, manifold assembly, ball valve, flow switch, pressure switch, pressure gauge, and check valve, all mounted on a fra... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6536683 | Spray apparatus with multiple pressurizable tank liquid supply system A liquid spraying system having a spray head and a recirculating liquid supply system for directing pressurized supply liquid to the spray head with a portion of the liquid being directed from the spray head as a discharging spray and a portion of the sup... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6234409 | Trailer mounted graffiti removal system A transportable, trailer-mounted system for removing graffiti from exterior and interior surfaces is disclosed. The system includes a water supply tank, a pressure washer, provision for applying cleaning chemicals to surfaces, storage areas for cleaning c... | 05/22/2001 |
| 5918808 | Apparatus and method for loading chemicals into a storage tank of a crop sprayer A crop sprayer having a chassis and a number of wheels which support the chassis is disclosed. The crop sprayer further includes an engine for driving at least one of the number of wheels so as to propel the chassis, and a storage tank, supported by the c... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5660334 | Remote control for electrostatic sprayer elements An electrostatic spray system has a high voltage section where an electric charge is applied to a liquid and the high voltage section is isolated from a lower potential section, such as a frame. The spray system has components on the high voltage section ... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5480096 | Mobile watering device A portable watering device includes a reservoir having an upper inlet and a lower outlet, a portable delivery wand having a top handle, a bottom channel, and a shiftable channel closure mechanism biased in the closed position. The top handle includes a tr... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5201953 | Vehicular paint applicator for corrugated surfaces A continuous or intermittent vehicular paint applicator for applying paint to a corrugated surface, has one of four types of a carriage body attached to a wheel-roller skid assembly or a wheel tractor belt assembly. The carriage body and wheel-roller asse... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5165600 | Ventilation system for the cab of a tractor used in a spraying system A method of and an apparatus for ventilating the cab of a tractor used for dispensing a plant-protective agent onto a plant site. A wet scrubber upstream of the cab in the ventilation system is continuously fed with fresh water while the continuously scru... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5125438 | Closed granular chemical handling system A closed granular chemical handling system comprising a dispensing valve and a receiving valve. The dispensing valve and the receiving valve are automatically opened when the valves are coupled together, and are automatically closed when the valves are un... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5125576 | Container rinse system for agricultural sprayer A container rinse system for a portable sprayer includes a nozzle adapted to be mounted adjacent the fluid inlet opening of the main fluid tank of the sprayer at a position for insertion into the open mouth of a container situated to pour chemicals into t... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5113946 | Fire-fighting system A fire-fighting system including a tractor and tanks mounted on the tractor at different elevations. The tanks are filled with water and during dispensing of the water during fire-fighting the tanks are emptied in order from the top-most down.... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5060701 | Closed granular chemical handling system A closed granular chemical handling system comprising a dispensing valve and a receiving valve. The dispensing valve and the receiving valve are automatically opened when the valves are coupled together, and are automatically closed when the valves are un... | 10/29/1991 |
| 4967960 | Vehicle wash system This invention relates to a mobile system for washing vehicles which supplies water at high pressure through a discharge hose to a user-operated spray gun or wand. The mobile washing system contains means to receive water at low pressure from the municipa... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4875526 | Rough terrain, large water volume, track driven firefighting apparatus and method This invention discloses a firefighting track driven apparatus for use in rugged terrain. A crawler track driven tractor vehicle pushes a front platform vehicle and pulls a rear platform vehicle. The front platform vehicle travels on steerable crawler tra... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4660602 | Mobile sludge transfer and storage tank A mobile sludge transfer and storage tank and method are provided whereby the sludge transfer and storage tank is provided with an enclosed compartment for containing pumping apparatus. Also included is a telescoping control panel attached to the tank hou... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4456039 | Device for transporting and/or spreading liquids A tank for transporting and/or spreading fluids has a conduit at its rear and an air/vacuum source for moving fluids into and out of the hopper. The conduit terminates in a rear opening which may be an outlet or inlet and has a gate valve located between ... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4359188 | Assembly means for full coverage recirculating sprayer A recirculating sprayer assembly directs treatment spray streams against a collector means having its lower end extending through an enlarged opening in a reservoir means. A screen means extends between the collector means and the adjoining edge or edges ... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4273285 | Weed spraying assembly A vegetation spraying assembly including a support framework mounted on the front of a tractor and movable vertically by hydraulic cylinders. A plurality of arms extend forwardly from the framework to distal ends supporting wedge-shaped guards with sprayi... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4244522 | Liquid storage and distribution apparatus for agricultural implements Apparatus for storing and distributing a liquid from a mobile agricultural implement is provided. The apparatus includes an improved vent structure carried in the upper portion of fluid storage tanks supported on the implement, with the vent structure bei... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4196852 | Compressed air test sample preparing and spraying apparatus A measuring, mixing and spraying apparatus for a tractor is a combination of, generally, four distinct component parts. The entire apparatus is operated under pressure from a compressor mounted onto the front of the tractor. Along one side of the tractor ... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4189005 | Fire truck control means Fire fighting system for communication and control of fire fighting equipment, such as maintaining the pressure and providing various warnings of different situations which may arise which cause a decrease in the fire fighting capability of the apparatus ... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4168798 | Full coverage recirculating sprayer A recirculating sprayer adapted for mounting on a vehicle is improved for use at increased travel speed and for operation in higher wind conditions by angling the solid spray streams forwardly or rearwardly from a direction transverse to the travel direct... | 09/25/1979 |
| 4013224 | Material spreader A liquid manure spreader having a tank for carrying liquid manure. An auger assembly driven by a power takeoff from a tractor delivers the manure to a pump mounted on the back of the tank. The pump discharges the material through a spreading structure. A ... | 03/22/1977 |
| 3976087 | Closed mixing system for tending agricultural sprayers A closed agricultural chemical batching, measuring and mixing system is disclosed for mounting to a sprayer tending truck. The system includes a measuring tank on which a partial vacuum is drawn by opening a connection to the intake manifold of the intern... | 08/24/1976 |
