US 12,069,992 B2
Automatic watering valve assembly
Brian Bohner, Boise, ID (US)
Filed by Torrent, LLC, Boise, ID (US)
Filed on Nov. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/522,813.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/111,578, filed on Nov. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0142068 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. A01G 27/00 (2006.01)
CPC A01G 27/008 (2013.01) [A01G 27/003 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An automatic watering valve actuator assembly, said automatic water valve comprising:
a valve, said valve having an inlet opening, an outlet opening and an actuator button, wherein said inlet opening is configured to attach said valve to a fluid source and receive fluid from a fluid source to said valve, wherein said actuator button is positioned at a top of said valve and said actuator button is configured to open said valve when said actuator button is depressed to allow fluid flow through said actuator from said inlet opening to said outlet opening, wherein said outlet opening is configured to attach to a tube;
a bracket, wherein said bracket is configured to attach said automatic watering valve assembly to a support member, wherein said bracket has a front attachment flange and two opposing forward flanges, wherein said valve is mounted to said front attachment flange;
a clip attached to said bracket, said clip having a lower tab at a bottom end of said clip below said valve, and an engagement flange at a top end of said clip positioned above said actuator button, wherein said clip is supported by said two opposing forward flanges; and
said lower tab being configured to receive a hook from a hanging planter such that positioning of the hook from the hanging planter causes the engagement flange to depress said actuator button.