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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7647875 | Seed hopper and routing structure for varying material delivery to row units Left and right main hoppers offset laterally from each other on opposite sides of the centerline of a seeding machine provide an operator access area between the hoppers. A third hopper located forwardly of and between the two main hoppers has a capacity less than t... | 01/19/2010 |
| 6244201 | Potato planter A potato seed planter includes one or more planting units with an endless conveyor. A plurality of cups are attached to the conveyor and each cup receives a potato seed as the conveyer travels upwardly between upper and lower sprockets. As the cups pass a... | 06/12/2001 |
| 5402741 | Seed planter A seed planter for planting of large or irregular seeds. A housing is mounted on a frame. The frame carries ground working equipment for opening, planting and closing a seed slot. The housing includes interior walls and partitions that divide it into a se... | 04/04/1995 |
| 4653410 | Seed planter A trailer-like apparatus adapted to be towed by a farm implement for depositing seed from a supply hopper into the ground at a controlled spacing substantially independent of the vehicle's relative ground speed. In a first embodiment, an endless chain hav... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4530293 | Billet planter A sugar cane billet planter has a main bin and a sorter bin adjacent the main bin. Billets are moved by a main bin elevator from the main bin to the sorter bin and, thence, by a sorter bin elevator from the sorter bin to a billet chute. The elevator used ... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4450778 | Sugar cane billet planter The objective of the invention is to provide a novel doffer in combination with a chain and slat conveyor which will remove excess billets from the slats with minimal damage to the eyes on the cane billets. The cane billet planter 10 includes a billet hopper 1... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4193357 | Seed planting machine having specific seed guiding structure A potato seed platner in which seeds are loaded into cups on an endless conveyor from a hopper of a seed receptacle. The conveyor is driven on upper and lower sprockets and arranged on the receptacle with the cups in two parallel rows in staggered constan... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4023509 | Apparatus for planting a plurality of individual seeds in a planting furrow An improved seed planter having a seed conveyor which, in combination with a means for placing seeds on the seed conveyor as they are dispensed from a seed hopper, transports the seeds from the seed hopper to a seed release point in close proximity to the... | 05/17/1977 |
| 4008826 | Planting machine for potatoes and other tubers The planting machine comprises a hopper having a bottom formed by a belt conveyor which extends outside the hopper. A tuber supply device supplies the tubers one by one from the conveyor to the furrow to be sown and comprises a collector cup mounted at th... | 02/22/1977 |
| 3982671 | Multiple feed potato planter A potato planter having a plurality of feed tubes attached to at least one central hopper and a plurality of trailing wheels which support the planter during turning is disclosed. The novel planter is further characterized by having a pair of outboard hop... | 09/28/1976 |
