Self Propelled Irrigation Machine (Patent No: 484230)

Inventor: Liboiron, Joseph George

Location: Medicine Hat

Comments: N/A

Description: 1. In an irrigating apparatus, the combination of a motor driven carriage, a drum mounted thereon and adapted to rotate with the movement of the carriage motor to which it is connected by means of sheaves united by a belt, one of said sheaves being connected directly to the vehicle motor transmission and the other to said drum, a hollow shaft on which said drum is mounted and rotating in bearings secured to the carriage body, a hose carrying water under pressure connected to said hollow shaft and adapted to be reeled on said drum, sprinkling pipes connected to said hollow shaft and extending outwardly of said carriage, said pipes decreasing in diameter towards their outer ends, upright stanchion members mounted on the floor of the carriage and a cross-head member supported by said stanchion members to which said sprinkling pipes are braced, a hand reel secured to the body of the vehicle, s lone sprinkling pipe at the front end of the vehicle extending the full width thereof and connected to said hollow shaft and held in position by braces tied to said cross-head member, and an idle roller held on the body of the carriage to guide the hose in its winding and unwinding on the drum.