US Patent Issued to AGCO on June 30 for "Rotating nozzle for agricultural crop sprayer" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,095, issued on June 30, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Rotating nozzle for agricultural crop sprayer" was invented by Mark Aron Crowley (Spirit Lake, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nozzle assembly for use with an agricultural crop sprayer includes a nozzle body and a turbine element journaled to the body. The turbine element has a fluid-conveying internal passage having a rifled profile. Other nozzle assemblies have a nozzle tip journaled to a nozzle body, and the nozzle tip has a fluid-carrying passage with a surface profile configured to interact with fluid passing therethrough to apply a torque on the nozzle tip...