Planting – Drilling and broadcasting – Main and auxiliary frame machines
Patent
1978-12-08
1981-05-05
Feyrer, James R.
Planting
Drilling and broadcasting
Main and auxiliary frame machines
111 6, 111 34, 111 51, 111 73, 222370, A01C 100
Patent
active
042651859
ABSTRACT:
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 a flexible hitch for attachment to the tractor. A tank equipped with an agitator, a plug size measuring device, and a discharge tube, contains the plug mixture. The discharge tube is provided inside with doors which allow the passage of the plugs at predetermined equal intervals. These doors are controlled by a spring-loaded solenoid which is, in turn, controlled by electrical make-and-break contact points powered by the tractor battery. A floating shoe digs a furrow into which the plugs are dropped, and two spring-loaded converging wheels in the rear of the frame cover and tamp down the seeded furrow. Rotation is provided to the agitator, the plug measuring device, and the electrical contact points by a train of chain-connected sprockets from a takeoff from the rear wheels of the planter. The planter can also be equipped with a supply tank and pipe for adding a measured quantity of gel containing water and seeds with the plug. A solenoid-operated cylinder supplies the gel from the tank to the pipe in synchronization with the discharge of the plugs.
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Feyrer James R.
Gutchess, Jr. Allen D.
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