Low-volume irrigation emitter with changeable patterns

摘要

An improved irrigation system for low-volume flow to individual plants or trees is presented. The system involves a detachable irrigation emitter with a flow deflector. In addition, an easily interchangeable dual flow pattern adapter is presented that can be slipped over the irrigation emitter in two different ways, thus providing two different deflection faces to produce two different flow patterns. Thus, with only one adapter, three distinct spray patterns may be selected at each plant site with much less time and labor than in previous systems. In a further embodiment, flow pattern adapters with three and four deflection surfaces are described, offering the choice of four and five distinct spray patterns at each plant site, respectively.