Spraying vehicle for use in agriculture

Claim 1

A SPRAYING VEHICLE COMPRISING A CHASSIS MOUNTED UPON ROAD WHEELS, A HORIZONTAL OPEN-ENDED ELONGATED TUBULAR SLEEVE MOUNTED LENGTHWISE OF THE CHASSIS AND HAVING A LONGITUDINAL AXIS, A POWER-DRIVEN, AIR-STREAM-CREATING FAN POSITIONED IN THE VICINITY OF ONE END OF THE SLEEVE AND ARRANGED TO DIRECT ITS AIR STREAM THROUGH THE LENGTH OF THE SLEEVE AT SUFFICIENT VELOCITY TO BE EJECTED FROM THE OTHER END OF THE SLEEVE, A VERTICALLY-DISPOSED, AIR-STREAMDEFLECTING PLATE EXTENDING ACROSS AND SPACED FROM THE SLEEVE OTHER END, AGAINST THE NEARER FACE OF WHICH PLATE IMPINGES THE AIR STREAM ISSUING FROM THE SLEEVE OTHER END TO BE DEFLECTED OUTWARDLY THROUGH THE SPACE BETWEEN THE SLEEVE OTHER END AND THE PLATE, A PLURALITY OF UPWARDLY DIRECTED SPACED APART FLANGES ON THE SAID NEARER PLATE FACE AND DEFINING TWO SETS OF UPWARDLY INCLINED AIR-STREAMRECEIVING CHANNELS, ONE SET OF CHANNELS DIRECTING AIR IN RESPECTIVE SMALLER STREAMS UPWARDLY FROM ONE SIDE OF THE SAID SPACE BETWEEN THE SLEEVE OTHER END AND THE PLATE, AND THE OTHER SET OF CHANNELS DIRECTING AIR IN RESPECTIVE SMALLER STREAMS UPWARDLY FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF SAID SPACE, A PLURALITY OF JET NOZZLES LOCATED IN THE VICINITY OF THE PERIPHERY OF THE PLATE ADJACENT THE FACE THEREOF FURTHER FROM THE SLEEVE OTHER END WITH EACH NOZZLE DIRECTING LIQUID SPRAY INTO A RESPECTIVE SMALLER AIR STREAM, A LIQUID CONTAINER MOUNTED ON SAID CHASSIS, AND PIPE MEANS AND POWER DRIVEN PUMP MEANS CONNECTING THE CONTAINER AND THE JET NOZZLES FOR CONVEYING LIQUID UNDER PRESSURE FROM THE CONTAINER TO THE JET NOZZLES.