US 12,419,212 B2
Flow splitter and agricultural implements having flow splitters
Ilsemar Prediger, Ibirubá (BR); Jarlis Luiz Matter, Ibirubá (BR); and Venicius Damo Cunha, Ibirubá (BR)
Assigned to AGCO do Brasil Soluções Agrícolas Ltda., Jundiai (BR)
Filed by AGCO do Brasil Soluções Agrícolas Ltda., Ribeirao Preto (BR)
Filed on Sep. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/931,296.
Claims priority of application No. 2114669 (GB), filed on Oct. 14, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0117204 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. A01C 7/08 (2006.01); A01C 7/10 (2006.01); A01C 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC A01C 7/082 (2013.01) [A01C 7/102 (2013.01); A01C 15/006 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A flow splitter, comprising:
a body having a generally cylindrical main passage therethrough oriented along a longitudinal axis of the body, the body having an upstream end and a downstream end, wherein the upstream end and downstream end are at opposing ends of the flow splitter wherein:
the main passage connects an inlet at the upstream end to exactly three split passages at the downstream end, each split passage connected to a corresponding outlet;
a first and second of the three split passages are oriented along axes that intersect one another at a first acute angle in a common plane with the longitudinal axis; and
a third of the three split passages intersects the common plane at a second acute angle.