Patent ID: 6430767
Filing Date: 2002-08-13
Classification: A01G,B25B,Y02A

Abstract:
A tool in combination with a pipe and an emitter, for installing a nozzle in a drip irrigation system, said combination comprising:a piece of irrigation pipe, said piece of irrigation pipe having a wall; an emitter member having a body portion and a spike portion; and a tool having a pair of elongate plier half-members connected at a pivoting joint, one of said plier half-members terminating in a first jaw portion having an inwardly-directed hole punch member, and the other of said plier half-members terminating in a second jaw portion having an inwardly-directed concavity to engage said piece of irrigation pipe, each of said jaw portions bearing jaw end cavities to engage said emitter body portion, and terminating in a platen to contact said emitter body portion, wherein closure of said jaws causes said hole punch member to pierce a hole in said wall of said irrigation pipe placed in said jaws, and capture of said emitter in said jaw end cavities facilitates forcible insertion of said spike portion of said emitter into the hole formed in said irrigation pipe.