Apparatus for watering and draining soil

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A double-duct conduit for irrigation and draingage comprises an inner small-diameter duct secured eccentrically inside an outer large-diameter duct with the walls of the ducts closely adjacent to one another along their tops. Ports through the wall of the inner duct are spaced above the bottom thereof to provide a sump in its bottom and are spaced below its top to provide an air chamber above the sump. The outer duct also has level of the bottom of the inner duct but a little above the bottom of the outer duct, providing a shallow sump in the bottom of the outer duct and an air chamber thereabove. During irrigation, water falls from the inner duct to the sump in the outer duct, then flows …