Patent ID: 7344091

Claim:
Spraying apparatus for spraying agricultural crops, planted in adjacent longitudinally directed rows where the apparatus will, in use, travel between adjacent rows in a direction parallel to the rows, said apparatus having two horizontally spaced upright spray arm assemblies each with sprayers attached thereto, one spray arm assembly, in use, holding sprayers spaced from and facing one row of the crop and the other spray arm assembly, in use, holding sprayers spaced from and facing an adjacent row of the crop, each spray assembly having an upper part and a lower part and a sprayer in each of the upper part and the lower part, spray arm assembly first moving means able to cause movement of the upper part of at least one of the spray arm assemblies relative to the lower part of the spray arm assembly so a central axis of spraying from the sprayer in the upper part will be directed in a downward direction toward an upper part of the crop, and spray arm assembly second moving means able to cause movement of the upper part and the lower part of at least one of the spray arm assemblies as a whole laterally inwardly or outwardly relative to the longitudinal direction of the facing row to accommodate for different width crops and/or different crop row widths.