Patent ID: 7086616

Claim:
A device for spreading large dry particulate matter comprising: a main elongate tube of approximately eight to ten inches in diameter and seven to ten inches in length; a supply hopper; a secondary tube having a one-half to two inches diameter and being affixed to the main tube at a sixty degree angle to the perpendicular of the main tube and contiguous with the main tube, a portion of the secondary tube protruding into the hollow interior of the main elongate tube, the secondary tube being connected downstream of the supply hopper; and means for controlling a gravitational feed of the volume of material dispensed from the hopper after the material is dispensed from the hopper, the means for controlling the gravitational feed of the volume of the material being located on the secondary tube and upstream of a connection point of the main tube and the secondary tube and downstream from the hopper, wherein an intake of end is for connecting to a means for providing high velocity forced airflow through a hollow interior of the main tube resulting in the broadcasting or spreading of the desired particulate matter that is received from the gravitational feed from the portion of the secondary tube protruding into the main elongate tube in the path of the high velocity airflow, and combined with the high velocity forced airflow so that particulate flowing through the secondary tube and the main tube do not engage with the means for providing high velocity forced airflow thereby resulting in little or no damage to the material broadcast over an area of ground.