Patent ID: 6991181

Claim:
A soaker/sprinkler hose comprising: an elongated cylindrical conduit positionable in desired fashion along the ground, an inlet fitting at an upstream end of said conduit for connection with a liquid supply, a downstream fitting at a downstream end of said conduit, said elongated cylindrical conduit having a circular cross section with a cylindrical wall which defines a central liquid flow passage for communicating liquid from said inlet fitting longitudinally along the length of said elongated conduit, said cylindrical wall having an outer cylindrical surface that is positionable on the ground at any location about its perimeter, said cylindrical conduit wall being formed with a plurality of radial discharge orifices extending radially straight through the cylindrical wall of said elongated conduit to said central liquid flow passage, said radial discharge orifices being spaced at different circumferentially spaced locations about the perimeter of the conduit along the length thereof for simultaneously directing liquid communicated along the length of said elongated conduit in radial discharging liquid flow streams downwardly into the ground on one circumferential side of the cylindrical conduit for soaking the ground and upwardly into the air from all other circumferential sides of the cylindrical conduit for watering the ground in sprinkling fashion.