Patent ID: 9730372
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: A01B

Claim:
1. A method for treating turf comprising grass growing in a matrix consisting of at least one of sand and humus, and which is infected with at least one of thatch, alga, moss, fungi and slime mould, the method for treating turf comprising: providing a cylindrical rotor having a cylindrical axis and having a given length and circumference disposed for rotation about the cylindrical rotors cylindrical axis with said cylindrical axis being horizontal; the cylindrical rotor being provided with blading having teeth disposed around the cylindrical rotor such that there is no part of the given length of the cylindrical rotor that does not have at least one tooth at some part of the cylindrical rotors circumference; providing means to rotate and traverse the cylindrical rotor over the turf at a given rate of rotation and a given speed of traverse so that the teeth drive into the matrix to a given depth therein to remove infected matrix; the given rate of rotation and the given speed of traverse being selected such that no part of the turf traversed by the rotor is left untreated.