Patent ID: 8925839
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: A01C

Abstract:
1. A lime spreader comprising a wheeled frame having a container to carry the lime; an eductor having a lime inlet positioned to receive lime from a bottom of the container, an air inlet, and an outlet; a blower connected to the air inlet of the eductor, and an elongated flexible tube connected to the outlet of the eductor; wherein during operation, the blower drives the eductor to blow mixed air and lime through and out the tube as lime enters the eductor; wherein the wheeled frame can be moved along a path in a maple grove and the elongated tube can be deployed laterally from the path over an application distance, between the trees; wherein the eductor has a chamber having an inlet side opposite an outlet side, and an opening connected to the container, an inlet nozzle oriented into the chamber on the inlet side, and a converging-diverging outlet section receiving mixed air from the inlet nozzle and lime from the opening, extending away from the outlet side of the chamber.