WATER-DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM FOR IRRIGATION CANAL Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC E02B13/00 

FIELD: agriculture, particularly irrigation ditches, namely gravity flow, open channel water distribution systems to control water flow in irrigation canal with water consumers, which take water along the canal.

SUBSTANCE: water-distribution system comprises irrigation canal with head gate, sealed chamber with sliding float communicating with upper pool and discharge means through three-way gate installed in supply pipeline, three-way gate control sensor, movable water consumer with water-intake means, blocking structure made as elastic shell and water level sensor. Water-intake means of water consumer is provided with sheet fixedly secured to upper end part thereof and adapted to block upper part of water flow. The sheet is associated with spherical elastic shell, which blocks remainder water flow part and provided with balancing means. The balancing means is located around spherical elastic shell perimeter. The sheet is linked to head part of water-intake means by flexible tie. Hollow body is connected to outer side of water-intake means. The hollow body is adapted to receive water level sensor made as float with vertical post. The post has two parallel contact rods connected to one post end and associated with power source. The contact rods cooperate with trolley cables in horizontal plane. The trolley cables are carried by masts installed on irrigation canal berm and distributed along the full canal length. The trolley cables are connected to power source through spring-loaded contact rods arranged in water-intake means and receiver/transmitter unit. Time delay unit is connected with gate control sensor. Sliding float is connected with head gate through kinematical connection means. Movable water consumer is provided with programmable control device, which controls water-intake means location height.

EFFECT: reduced operational costs, decreased water consumption for agricultural crop watering, decreased water reserve volume, simplified structure and reduced costs of irrigation system object construction.

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