Class 111/34 - Depositing mechanisms

Subclass of Class 111 - Planting
Definition: Dispensing or dropping devices particularly adapted for
No. of patents: 39
Last issue date: 09/11/2007

Number	Title	Issue Date
7267061	Opposed inductor improvements The inductor assembly of the present invention is configured with an agricultural implement to enhance conveyance of product from a storage hopper to a remote location. The inductor assembly includes an inductor chamber that defines an interior cavity configured to ...	09/11/2007
7264423	Hose restraint apparatus A restraint apparatus configured to selectively attach a flexible hose at an outlet structure of a manifold of an air conveyance system is provided. The restraint apparatus includes a restraint member having a flat, planar shape. The restraint member includes a firs...	09/04/2007
7258070	Opposed inductor improvements The inductor assembly of the present invention is configured with an agricultural implement to enhance conveyance of product from a storage hopper to a remote location. The inductor assembly includes an inductor chamber that defines an interior cavity configured to ...	08/21/2007
7152540	Seed tube for an agricultural planter A seed tube for an agricultural planter having a rearwardly curving forward wall, a rearwardly curving rearward wall and opposing side walls defining a seed passageway which curves rearwardly from an upper ingress end toward a lower egress end. An aperture is dispos...	12/26/2006
7093547	Opposed inductor improvements The inductor assembly of the present invention is configured with an agricultural implement to enhance conveyance of product from a storage hopper to a remote location. The inductor assembly includes an inductor chamber that defines an interior cavity configured to ...	08/22/2006
6990911	Seed planting assembly and liquid application device for same A planting assembly including a frame, a furrow opening mechanism, a seed tube for directing a seed into a furrow, a liquid source, a liquid delivery conduit having a delivery end, and a furrow closing mechanism. An adapter is configured for mounting to the seed tub...	01/31/2006
6116284	Guide structure for pneumatic applicator A guide structure is provided for guiding the flow of particulate matter from a source to a distribution manifold. The guide structure includes a generally tubular elbow defining a flow path for the particulate matter. First and second veins are positione...	09/12/2000
5067421	Seed-dispensing apparatus The present invention relates to apparatus for sowing seed, particularly seed for reforestation, intermittently or continuously in a precise and controlled manner. The inventive apparatus includes at least one seed-magazine and at least one seed-dispensin...	11/26/1991
4928858	Metering device for seed or fertilizer A metering device for seed having a housing (7), a rotary metering member (27) that is rotatably mounted on a shaft 32 in open slots (25, 26) in a pair of side walls (8, 9) of the housing with the axis of rotation of the shaft extending transversely to th...	05/29/1990
4815400	Hygroscopic fertilizer applicator A hygroscopic-fertilizer-pellet applicator of the type having a fan blowing air through small tubes to propel the pellets to tube outlets for underground placement. The tendency of the hygroscopic fertilizer to absorb moisture, and to clog the small tubes...	03/28/1989
4793744	Granular material conveyor A field type granular fertilizer applicator includes a mixing unit for putting the fertilizer into the air carrier medium stream for conveying it to a plurality of applicator knives. The mixing unit includes a passageway between the inlet and the outlet w...	12/27/1988
4715302	Foldable drill implement with differential assembly A foldable drill implement has a supply hopper mounted on a center frame section and a rearwardly mounted broadcast hopper extending onto wing frame sections. Various augers connect the supply hopper to the broadcast hopper and maintain a level of fill in...	12/29/1987
4688698	Seed dispensing mechanisms A seed dispensing mechanism for a precision row crop planter employs a pressure differential to cause seeds to be held to a series of seed apertures in a rotary disc. The disc is of stainless steel of very thin gauge whereby the disc deforms under the pre...	08/25/1987
4646939	Selector device for the distributor of a so-called "single seed" seed drill A selector device for a distributor of a so-called "single-seed" seed drill. It comprises a transportation member, a surface of which moves continuously between a seed hopper and a transportation device with, in that surface, orifices communicating with a...	03/03/1987
4632284	Seeding device A seeding device to dispense seed suspended in a gel or other carrier medium in either a continuous stream or discrete pulses. A coulter opens a furrow of earth to the proper depth and seed carried in a gel or other suspension medium is delivered in a pul...	12/30/1986
4614283	Depositioning single pieces of grain A seed planter is provided with a stationary, funnel-shaped bin whose lower-end extension is constructed as a pair of electromagnetically, pneumatically, or mechanically pivoted brackets, defining a duct smaller than the grain when the brackets are closed...	09/30/1986
4613056	Seed meter having cleanout and seed sealing member In a seed meter in which a seed disk having a circular outer edge is rotatably mounted on a hub within a generally cylindrical housing, an elongated cleanout and seed sealing member mounted within the housing adjacent a substantial portion of the circumfe...	09/23/1986
4575284	Distribution tube for pneumatic applicator A section of tube with a series of inwardly directed projections is placed in the main conduit of a pneumatic applicator, upstream of the primary distribution head. The inner projections in the tube serve to center the direction of the blown granular mate...	03/11/1986
4571861	Bulldozing or snowplow blade A clearing blade, as an attachment for a garden tractor or the like, is constructed as a double-walled construction thereby forming a box-like spreading funnel (5) between the wall members so that simultaneously with or after clearing snow, salt or other ...	02/25/1986
4544082	Separating and depositing single pieces of grain A funnel-shaped device is provided with one or two segments serving as brackets to enlarge the bottom opening of the funnel which, when closed, is smaller than the smallest piece of grain to be deposited; a centrally disposed air tube blows air axially to...	10/01/1985
4541549	Agricultural hopper structure Agricultural hopper structure for containing two different granular materials such as seed and fertilizer. Two molded plastic containers are nested together and supported on a frame. The nested ends of the containers are concave and convex, respectively, ...	09/17/1985
4522291	Seed flow divider attachment for seed drills An attachment for seed drills whereby a fraction of seed flow can be selectively diverted from an existing flow path to a secondary flow path and in which the diverted percentage of the seed flow can be delivered to a planting depth different from that se...	06/11/1985
4453866	Feeding granular material into a gas stream Apparatus for feeding granular material into a gas stream, for example seed or fertilizer into multiple airstreams of an agricultural vehicle, includes a receptacle for granular material, a duct for a gas stream, and a pair of resiliently compressible sur...	06/12/1984
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
4449642	Seed planter The present invention is an improved seed sower unit and an improved seed supply hopper for the head. Opposed vacuum disc-type sower units are mounted in a frame. A seed hopper is mounted on a separate subframe. The hopper subframe has mounting notches wh...	05/22/1984
4444130	Seed planting machine A planting machine wherein its planter wheel and a packer wheel trailing the same respectively have peripheral velocities greater and less than the speed of advance of the machine. Shoes on the former open the ground and deposit a seed therein on relative...	04/24/1984
4411205	Seed planter A seed planter of the type primarily intended for use in automatically depositing seeds into seedling flats. The seed planter basically comprises a support frame including a conveyor for moving the seedling flats containing a growing medium therealong. Op...	10/25/1983
4399757	Seeding machine with a pneumatic seed ejecting means, especially for vegetable culture The present invention relates to a seeding machine of the pneumatic ejection type. The seeding machine includes an apertured distributor disk 2 which rotates past a suction chamber 3 terminating in an end wall 4, and an ejector venturi 1 is juxtaposed to ...	08/23/1983
4393791	Undercutter seed planter An undercutter seed planter in the form of an elongated tubular seed delivery member adapted to be pulled beneath the soil behind the blade of an undercutter plow. An air metering system supplies seeds to the seed delivery member and such seeds are releas...	07/19/1983
4300461	Grass seed planter having fluid injection soil opener A mobile grass seed planter having mounted thereon a frontal line of spaced water nozzles, and behind each nozzle, in a second or back row, is a row of outlets through which seed is directed under air pressure. In operation, as the planter is moved over t...	11/17/1981
4290373	Seedling tranplanter A tractor towed seedling transplanter includes a main frame with a pair of canted rear wheels, a rearwardly facing operator's seat and a tray for storing a supply of seedlings to be transplanted. A power take-off from the wheels operates a rotary metering...	09/22/1981
4288008	Agricultural spreader device of modular design for pulverulent material An agricultural spreader device for spreading seed and other granular material, the spreader being constituted by modular assemblies which are attachable to a central carrier assembly mountable on an agricultural machine such as a tractor. Each modular as...	09/08/1981
4265185	Plug mix seed planter This invention consists of a tractor drawn planter which automatically deposits equally spaced sprout bearing plugs of specially prepared nutrient soil, into the ground. It is made of a rectangular framework having two rear wheels upon which it rides and ...	05/05/1981
4231306	Apparatus for injecting granular material in soil Apparatus for injecting granular material such as nematicide in soil comprises a frame carrying a plurality of tines for opening vertical slits in the soil when dragged through the soil by movement of the frame. Each tine has a conduit for delivering gran...	11/04/1980
4106414	Seed planter and planting valve therefor A self-cleaning, non-clogging seed-planting valve which functions in an alternating cycle of applied vacuum and atmospheric pressure. The valve is formed from an elongated housing, having a hollow core, and to the lower end of which a nozzle is attached. ...	08/15/1978
4037755	Pneumatic seed dispensing apparatus A mobile planter of the pneumatic type which has a rotating drum with seed receiving apertures arranged so that seed is deposited at an upper peripheral surface of the drum to be received in the seed receiving apertures. The exterior of the drum is mainta...	07/26/1977
4029238	Pneumatic planter A device for planting of agricultural seeds extremely rapidly and particularly adaptable to airborne planting including a tank for holding seeds and for containing compressed air. Mechanism is provided to align the seeds and insert them into a movable noz...	06/14/1977
4024822	Pneumatic seeder assembly Seed and/or fertilizer or similar particulate material is fed by a seed cup assembly or the like from a hopper to a main conduit through which air is passing at a rate sufficient to ensure that the material is picked up by the air stream and transported t...	05/24/1977
3964639	Seed tube diffuser for a pneumatic seed planter An air diffuses for use in a seed delivery tube of a pneumatic type of seed planter. This air diffuser is a short length of pipe which is perforated with a plurality of holes. The effective open area of the holes being approximately fifty-percent greater ...	06/22/1976

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