4662 results about "Drip irrigation" patented technology

A drip irrigation line includes a plurality of emitter units secured within a water supply tube such that each emitter unit defines with the tube a flow-control passageway having an inlet port communicating with the interior of the water supply tube and an outlet port communicating with a water discharge opening in the water supply tube. Each emitter unit includes a one-way valve at one of the ports. Such port has an opening circumscribed by a cylindrical boss, and the one-way valve thereat includes a cap having a skirt of elastomeric material normally engaging the outer surface of the cylindrical boss to block reverse water flow into the flow-control passageway, but is deformable under water pressure to permit forward flow from the tube interior into the flow-control passageway.

A vertical planter includes stackable planter units each with plural sections in which plural plants can be planted. Each section of a planter unit can have a removable faceplate for placing soil in the planter section and planting plants in the soil, or potted plants can be placed in the faceplate openings. Water is provided to each planter section via a drip irrigation tube fed from a main water supply tube that extends to each planter unit. The drain water from each planter unit drains down through an underlying planter unit and into an underlying water reservoir.

A drip irrigation hose formed with a plurality of outlets for discharging the water at longitudinally-spaced locations along the length of the hose includes a plurality of emitter elements secured to the hose at longitudinally-spaced locations along its length to define a plurality of turbulent flow passageways each in communication with the interior of the hose for discharging water from a hose outlet at a slow rate. Each of the turbulent flow passageways is defined by a relatively elastic first material coextruded with a relatively stiff second material different from the first material, such that the relatively elastic material is pressure-deformable as compared to the relatively stiff material to change the turbulent flow of each emitter element in response to the pressure of the water in the hose at the respective emitter element.

The invention relates to a self-compensating drip irrigation emitter. A plurality of novel embodiments are provided, wherein the emitter of the invention is capable of always supplying a substantially constant flow within a range of pressures of a fluid flowing in a pipe (3), from very low to very high pressures. Furthermore, the emitter of the invention has such characteristics as to prevent any accidental and undesired clogging thereof by sediments or debris.

A two-wire controlling and monitoring system for irrigation of localized areas of soil includes a water pipeline, a plurality of controllable irrigation valves, a plurality of field sensors measuring specific irrigation parameters, and a plurality of localized irrigation control units. Each irrigation control unit has a sensor decoder connected to a specific field sensor and / or a line decoder connected to a specific controllable irrigation valve. The system further includes a controller and power supply unit that applies a first alternating DC voltage signal to a two-wire cable interconnecting the controller and power supply unit and the irrigation control units. The two-wire cable provides power from the controller and power supply unit to each of the irrigation control units, it transmits schedules of instructions to the irrigation control units through the two-wire cable, and it receives the irrigation parameters from the irrigation control units through the two-wire cable.

The object of this Patent is “Self-compensating drip emitter, with a one-way flow device”, which has a use as explained in the actual disclosure of the invention. Its structure comprises a conventional dripper (1) inserted or installed in a pipe (2), with a self-compensating membrane (3) that regulates the flow in the chamber (4) for its discharge via the orifice (8), being provided with a filter cover (9) which supports the membrane (3). Its essentiality lies in the use of a circular membrane (10) as a sealing diaphragm, which rests on a watertight fillet when the internal pressure in the pipe (2) is lower than the external pressure, while it rests on another stop (11) composed of retaining tabs when the pressures are inverted.

A drip irrigation hose formed with a plurality of outlets for discharging the water at longitudinally-spaced locations along the length of the hose includes a plurality of emitter elements secured to the hose at longitudinally-spaced locations along its length to define a plurality of turbulent flow passageways each in communication with the interior of the hose for discharging water from a hose outlet at a slow rate. Each of the turbulent flow passageways is defined by a relatively elastic first material co-extruded with a relatively inelastic second material both bonded to the hose with the relatively elastic material being pressure-deformable, as compared to the relatively inelastic material, to change the turbulent flow passageway of each emitter element in response to the pressure of the water in the hose at the respective emitter element.

A drip irrigation hose includes a plurality of emitter elements secured to a tube at longitudinally-spaced locations to define, with an inner surface of the tube, a plurality of labyrinths each having an inlet in communication with the interior of the tube, and an outlet in communication with a tube outlet for discharging water from the tube outlet at a slow rate. The labyrinths are defined by a continuous strip of a relatively inelastic material bonded to the inner surface of the tube, and a formation of a relatively elastic material shaped to define at least the tips of a group of teeth for each of the emitter elements producing, with the inner surface of the tube a turbulent flow passageway at each of the longitudinally spaced locations along the length of the tube. In some embodiments the drip irrigation hose is formed with a clearance between the inner surface of the tube and the teeth normally bypassing at least a part of each labyrinth in the non-pressurized condition of the tube, which clearance is closed in the pressurized condition of the tube to render the labyrinths effective to regulate the flow therethrough in response to pressure.

A drip irrigation emitter includes a disc shaped body having a pressure reducing labyrinth between a water inlet area and an outlet hole, and a pressure regulating diaphragm changing flow through the outlet hole in response to water pressure fluctuations in the water conduit where the emitter is mounted. The water filtering inlet of the emitter is located entirely at the sides of the disc shaped body.

A multi-diameter tube coupling is provided for interconnecting flexible plastic tubing of the type used in drip irrigation systems and the like, wherein the tube coupling is adapted for use with a range of different tubing sizes. The tube coupling includes a central body defining an internal flow path, with a retainer collet mounted thereon at each open end of the flow path to capture a seal member having a compliant, pressure-activated seal lip. The retainer collet includes an annular array of lock fingers for unidirectional slide-fit locked reception of one end of a length of tubing within a range of different sizes, with the seal lip engaging the tubing to provide a substantially leak-proof connection. Alternatively, the collet lock fingers accommodate slide-fit locked reception of a barbed swivel adapter, with the seal lip engaging the adapter to provide a substantially leak-proof connection.

The invention discloses a plant efficient drip irrigation fertilizer, which comprises the following components in percentage by mass: 5 to 30 percent of major elements, 1 to 10 percent of trace elements, 0.1 to 2 percent of vitamin, 0.001 to 1 percent of amino acid, 0.1 to 6 percent of humic acid, 0.001 to 1 percent of macleaya cordata total alkali and the balance of deionized water. The plant efficient drip irrigation fertilizer overcomes the defects that the conventional drip irrigation fertilizer is single in nutritional ingredients, contains harmful substances and blocks drip irrigation equipment easily, and has the advantages of comprehensive nutrition, no toxicity, high dissolvability, no pipeline blockage and production cost saving.

A bag culture system for large-scale production of solanaceous vegetables comprises a plurality of culture troughs, a plurality of culture bags, a water inlet pipe, a reservoir, a water pump, a fertilizing device, a filter, a drip irrigation main pipe, a plurality of drip irrigation branch pipes and a plurality of emitters. The culture troughs are formed in parallel on the floor of a solar greenhouse by recessing. Two rows of upright culture bags are disposed in each culture trough. The reservoir is located inside the greenhouse. The water pump is disposed in the reservoir, and an outlet of the water pump is connected with a liquid inlet end of the drip irrigation main pipe. An outlet end of the fertilizing device is connected with a liquid inlet end of the drip irrigation main pipe. The filter is disposed on the drip irrigation main pipe. The rear of the drip irrigation main pipe is arranged above one ends of the culture troughs. One drip irrigation branch pipe is disposed above each row of culture bags, and one ends of the drip irrigation branch pipes are connected with the drip irrigation main pipe simultaneously. Each drip irrigation branch pipe is provided with the emitters, while each emitter is above a round hole of each culture bag. The bag culture system has the advantages that production environment can be improved, water and fertilizer can be economized, utilization rate of fertilizer is increased, spread of soil-borne diseases is avoided, and the like.

Low-pressure drip irrigation system, comprising a distribution pipe made of thin-walled sleeve collapsible when empty and designed to operate under hydraulic head up to 3 m H2O, having a plurality of holes in the walls thereof, a plurality of branch tubes equipped with low-pressure drip emitters; and a plurality of connectors connecting the branch tubes to the holes of the distribution pipe.The sleeve material is opaque and reflecting the solar radiation so that the natural growth of microorganisms and algae in the irrigation water is suppressed, and the pipe is not heated more than 35° C. above the ambient air temperature.The irrigation system is assembled in the field from components of a kit by deploying the distribution pipe, filling it with water, cutting the holes by means of a special band-held tool, inserting the connectors into the holes, and assembling the branch tubes with the connectors.

The invention discloses a compound liquid fertilizer with high suspension degree, and a preparation method and an application thereof, and belongs to the liquid fertilizer industry field. The preparation method comprises the steps: adding macromolecule organic sugar into a clay material to be used as a basal suspending agent I, and carrying out first suspension chelation of a major element and a trace element at the temperature of 40-60 DEG C; followed by controlling the temperature at 20-30 DEG C, slowly adding a plant growth regulator and a surface active material, fully mixing uniformly, finally adding macromolecule cellulose and an analog thereof as a suspending agent II, carrying out second suspension chelation, and fully stirring to obtain the compound liquid fertilizer with high suspension degree. The prepared compound liquid fertilizer with high suspension degree has comprehensive nutrients, high content, low cost, good liquidity, good stability and good dissolvability, and is beneficial for crops to efficiently absorb and utilize. The preparation method is simple in process and easy to implement. The compound liquid fertilizer is an ideal fertilizer source for water and fertilizer integration for drip irrigation, sprinkler irrigation, water flushing and the like.

The invention discloses an aeration underground drip irrigation system which comprises a water source, a delivery main pipe (6), a delivery branch pipe (10) and an irrigation capillary (11), wherein abooster pump (5) is connected in series with the delivery main pipe (6). The aeration underground drip irrigation system is characterized in that an aeration chamber (1) is connected in parallel withthe delivery main pipe (6), a micropore aeration part (7) is arranged in the aeration chamber (1), an air compressor (2) is communicated with the aeration part (7) in the aeration chamber (1) througha gas cylinder (3) and a ventilation hose (8) with a one-way valve (9), and a branch ventilation pipe (14) communicated with the aeration chamber (1) is arranged between the one-way valve (9) and a gas flow control valve (13). The aeration underground drip irrigation system can realize the three functions of ordinary underground drip irrigation, aeration underground drip irrigation and simple underground ventilation through water gas supply and valve control, has simple structure, low cost, less energy loss, controllable aeration ratio, wide aeration range, convenient use, management and maintenance and labor saving, and simultaneously can dissolve fertilizer into water, simultaneously irrigate the fertilizer, the water and gas, improve the utilization efficiency of the fertilizer and reduce the pollution for soil and underground water.

The invention concerns an installation for manufacturing drip irrigation pipes comprising a dripper feed station followed by an extrusion station comprising extrusion means, means for calibrating the pipe and means for welding the drippers to the inner wall of the pipe, and followed by a cooling station for the pipe, of the type wherein the cooling station includes a cooling tank containing a cooling fluid in which the pipe is immersed, characterized in that a detection device is provided for detecting, in the cooling fluid, the emission of gas bubbles through the wall of the pipe, so as to deduce therefrom the presence of perforations and / or cracks. The invention also concerns a method for detecting perforations and / or cracks.

The invention discloses a corn planting and cultivating method. The corn planting and cultivating method includes the following steps of selecting a corn variety and conducting soil preparation before planting, arranging wide rows and narrow rows at intervals, sowing corn, completing sowing, pipe paving, film paving and soil covering through an air suction type precision seeder, and conducting field management in the seedling stage, the ear stage and the flower stage, wherein the width of each wide row ranges from 85cm to 95cm, the width of each narrow row ranges from 25cm to 35cm, a drip irrigation zone is paved in the middle of each narrow row. According to the corn planting and cultivating method, due to the fact that the method that the wide rows and the narrow rows are arranged at intervals is adopted, the number of drip lines which are used can be lowered. Modifiers are sprayed in the early period of the field management in the seedling stage to control the plant height and the ear position, and the defect that through a conventional planting method, the corn easily falls over due to the fact that the plant height is large and the ear position is high is overcome. Pesticide is sprayed through a self-propelled high-stalk crop boom sprayer in the middle and later period of management to control pests, the influences of natural disasters on corn growth are reduced, and the influences on productivity caused by a large number of European corn borers, cotton bollworms, aphids, leafhoppers and red spiders appearing after corn jointing are eliminated.

A drip irrigation hose includes a tube for conducting pressurized water through its interior and formed with a plurality of outlets for emitting water at longitudinally-spaced locations along the length of the tube; and a plurality of flow-control elements fixed with respect to the inner surface of the tube at longitudinally-spaced locations thereof to define, with the inner surface, a plurality of labyrinths each having an inlet communicating with the interior of the tube and an outlet communicating with a tube outlet for emitting water there from at a slow rate. The labyrinth includes a bottom wall constructed to produce, adjacent to the bottom wall, a significant laminar flow of water in which the laminar flow decreases, and thereby turbulent flow increases, with an increase in the water pressure within the tube to thereby provide pressure-compensation for the water flow through the respective tube outlet.

The present invention relates to a method for planting grape in arid desert area. Said method includes the following several steps: according to the spacing distance of 4-6m excavating overwintering soil-covering cold-resisting channel, excavating planting channel in the centre of cold-resisting channel bottom, laying PVC plastic film on the channel bottom of planting channel and two side walls, filling coarse sand or chad into the channel bottom, then making the planting channel be filled up with soil and fertilizer mixture, according to the spacing distance of 1m planting grape young tree, at two sides of tree body respectively setting one drip irrigation band, at two sides of root system alternatively making irrigation, adopting small trellis form and pruning, when autumn changes into winter in every year, removing aerial portions of grape main vine and fruiting twigs from grape trellis and placing them into cold-resisting channel and covering said cold-resisting channel with a layer of sandy soil whose thickness is 50cm for overwintering.

The present invention provides a complete, safe, cost-effective, simple-to-use, and pH balanced hydroponics nutrient feeding kit for culturing plants indoors, outdoors and in green houses, wherein the hydroponics nutrient feeding kit comprises a set of formulations for making chronologically sequential nutrient solutions to culture a hydroponic crop through an entire growth cycle, wherein each formulation comprises all of the nutrient components required in a batch of nutrient solution. The nutrient components are pre-measured for a specific hydroponic nutrient reservoir size to consistently provide plants with their nutrient requirements for the specific stage of growth through the vegetative phase and the flowering and fruiting phase through to harvest. The hydroponics nutrient feeding system can be used with rock-wool, sphagnum moss, leca, coir, lava rock, soil mixes, aeroponics, drip irrigation, flood and drain, wick, NFT, systems and all other hydroponic growth mediums and systems.

An oxygen emitter which is an electrolytic cell is disclosed. When the anode and cathode are separated by a critical distance, very small microbubbles and nanobubbles of oxygen are generated. The very small oxygen bubbles remain in suspension, forming a solution supersaturated in oxygen. A flow-through model for oxygenating flowing water is disclosed. The use of supersaturated water for enhancing the growth of plants is disclosed. Methods for applying supersaturated water to plants manually, by drip irrigation or in hydroponic culture are described. The treatment of waste water by raising the dissolved oxygen with the use of an oxygen emitter is disclosed.

An oxygen emitter which is an electrolytic cell is disclosed. When the anode and cathode are separated by a critical distance, very small microbubbles and nanobubbles of oxygen are generated. The very small oxygen bubbles remain in suspension, forming a solution supersaturated in oxygen. A flow-through model for oxygenating flowing water is disclosed. The use of supersaturated water for enhancing the growth of plants is disclosed. Methods for applying supersaturated water to plants manually, by drip irrigation or in hydroponic culture are described. The treatment of waste water by raising the dissolved oxygen with the use of an oxygen emitter is disclosed.

The invention relates to a method for fabricating a drip irrigation pipe, comprising a pipe (5) wherein a plurality of dripping elements (4) are bound, communicating with the outside through holes formed in the pipe wall. The method according to the invention provides that the pipe (5) is extruded and the individual dripping elements (4) are bound therein by consecutively feeding the dripping elements (4) inside the pipe through the extruding head (1). The speed of the dripping elements (4) is higher than that of the pipe upon extrusion at least in the area of first contact between the pipe and the dripping elements (4). The invention also relates to a plant for implementing said method.

The invention relates to an organic water soluble fertilizer, which belongs to a novel, efficient and organic hyperconcentration chelate fertilizer and is prepared from plant source organic matters, potassium humate, citric acid, amino acid, vitamin, monosaccharide, fructose, dextrose, polysaccharide, potassium sodium tartrate, zinc sulfate, copper sulfate, manganese sulfate, boracic acid, ammonium molybdate, ethanediol, monoammonium phosphate, monopotassium phosphate, phosphoric acid and the like through the processes of acidification, chelation and concentration. The organic water soluble fertilizer is suitable for being used for all plants in modes of leaf surface spray application, root filling, seed soaking, flushing application, drip irrigation and spray irrigation. The product is nontoxic and does not have hormone or residue, the crop growth and development can be regulated in a balanced way, the metabolism and the photosynthesis of the plants can be promoted, the aging of the plants can be delayed, the quality is improved, the yield is increased, and certain drought resistance, cold resistance and disease resistance effects are realized. 20 percent to 40 percent of soil fertilizer consumption can be reduced through using the organic water soluble fertilizer for many times, and the yield of the crops can be increased by about 10 to 40 percent.

A fluid flow control device, particularly useful for drip-irrigation emitters, for controlling the discharge of a fluid (water) from a discharge port in a fluid conduit (drip irrigation pipe) includes: a housing attachable to the fluid conduit and constructed to define a fluid chamber having an inlet opening communicating with the interior of the fluid conduit, and an outlet opening communicating with the discharge port of the fluid conduit; and a flow control member freely movable within the fluid chamber and having a surface contacting an inner surface of the housing to control the flow of fluid from said fluid chamber out of the fluid conduit via said outlet opening in the housing. One of the contacting surfaces of the flow control member or housing is formed with a protruding pattern such that the two contacting surfaces define small passageways for the flow of fluid from the fluid chamber out of the fluid conduit via the outlet opening. The flow control member is manually accessible, via the outlet opening, to be manually moved away from the outlet opening in the fluid chamber and thereby to flush the small passageways of any clogging particles.