Patent ID: 9603315
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: A01G,G01B

Claim:
1. An irrigation pipe manufacturing system comprising: a continuous pipe feeder, wherein an irrigation pipe circulates along a predetermined circulation direction X-X′ in the pipe feeder, and a plurality of drippers each having a water outlet are placed inside the irrigation pipe by said pipe feeder to form deformations on the pipe wall, and the irrigation pipe circulates while keeping the water outlets of the drippers in a predetermined orientation; a dripper detection device having a laser detection unit and a laser signal receiver, wherein the laser detection unit has a laser source emitting a laser beam directed to a location of the irrigation pipe's outer surface where deformations are present at regular intervals, and the laser signal receiver receives and analyses the laser beam reflected on the pipe's outer surface to provide a transformed reflected signal which contains information about the passage of each dripper facing said laser detection unit; and a pipe drilling device placed downstream said dripper detection device and comprising drilling means able to drill a hole through the pipe wall for each dripper at a predetermined location corresponding to the water outlet of each dripper, wherein said dripper detection device further comprises a drilling control unit using said transformed reflected signal as a drilling control signal to control the drilling location of said holes along said pipe by said drilling device.