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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4995327 | Seed planting apparatus An apparatus including a planar support tray mounting a series of seed containers therethrough. The containers may optionally include a removable lid providing a lip to contain seed within the containers. Further, a funnel integrally secured to the suppor... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4747357 | Mini seeder The mini seeder comprises an open receptacle which has a rim and a top surface provided with a seed discharge orifice. A substantially U-shaped partition around the orifice divides the top surface into a seed-transfer channel within the partition, and a s... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4738208 | Metered seed planting apparatus A metered seed planting apparatus (10) comprising a shoe unit (11); a pivoted seed hopper unit (12); an adjustable seed metering unit (13); a vertically adjustable furrow plow unit (14); a seed bed covering unit (15); and, a wheeled marking unit (60); whe... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4729493 | Powered seed spacer A powered seed dispenser for uniformly distributing seeds along the ground which includes a handle carrying a powered driven motor and a pivotally mounted seed distributor which is engaged and driven by the powered driven motor, the seed distributor being... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4359104 | Furrow opening, closing and soil firming device for seed planting A plate has on its under side a V-shape keel of decreasing depth from end-to-end, a handle mounting on its upper side, and upwardly flared soil flattener at the ends of the plate.... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4315580 | Hand held seed planter with roller wheel structure A row seed planter for planting seeds in a prepared furrow in home gardens having a ground-engaging wheel-like seed reservoir and dispenser rotatable subassembly rotatably journaled on the lower end of an elongated handle member adapted to be hand-grasped... | 02/16/1982 |
| 4090457 | Multi-purpose garden tool A garden tool which serves as an ordinary hand operated plow but can be converted to a seed planter and fertilizer or to a wheelbarrow. The seed planter attachment has a plow point for opening a furrow, a seed and fertilizer dispenser and a device for cov... | 05/23/1978 |
