Patent ID: 8333333
Filing Date: 2012-12-18
Classification: A01B,B08B,E21F

Abstract:
1. A mobile apparatus which, by a combination of a sufficiently high discharge pressure with a sufficiently small nozzle diameter size, generates a cooling mist to reduce the thermal transport of dust particles generated by the apparatus as the apparatus works a soil surface, the apparatus comprising: a soil agitation means which generates dust as the apparatus works the soil surface; a liquid storage vessel; a pump having a suction end and a discharge end, the suction end hydraulically connected to the liquid storage vessel, wherein the pump discharges the stored liquid with the discharge pressure at 20 psig or greater; power means attached to the pump; and the discharge end hydraulically connected to a plurality of downwardly facing mist generating nozzles attached to the mobile soil treatment implement adjacent to the soil agitation means, the mist generating nozzles configured to disperse the cooled mist above the soil surface, wherein the nozzle diameter size of the mist generating nozzles is no larger than 0.030 inches.