WEED SPRAYING ASSEMBLY

摘要

P-561 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 spraying nozzles supported rearwardly of the guards and aimed to spray rearwardly in a horizontal pattern. A plurality of collector trays are supported on the framework rearwardly of the spray nozzles. Each collector tray is an integral plastic member having end walls and a vertical back wall extending between the end walls. Each collector tray has a forwardly facing spray-receiving opening and a catch basin below the opening. A projection extends along and below the opening and is defined by first and second walls extending rearwardly from an apex for engaging and preventing vegetation from engaging the opening. A lip wall extends upwardly and forwardly from one of the walls defining the projection and defines the lower periphery of the opening. A short top wall extends forwardly from the top of the back wall for defining the top periphery of the opening. The end walls define the end peripheries of the opening and slant downwardly and forwardly from the top wall to the lip wall so that the periphery of the opening is disposed in a plane which is at an acute angle relative to the back wall. A fibrous pad or screen is supported in the opening at an angle for receiving the liquid spray which does not engage vegetation which spray passes therethrough and collects in the catch basin of each collector tray. Each collector tray has a sump which is emptied by an ejector through a filter cartridge returning the liquid to a storage tank where it may be recirculated through the spray nozzles by the same pump that supplies the liquid spray to the ejectors.