Planting – Drilling – Having depositor feature
Patent
1998-11-09
2000-11-07
Pezzuto, Robert E.
Planting
Drilling
Having depositor feature
111 77, A01C 1504
Patent
active
061420867
ABSTRACT:
An air seeder singulation system for evenly dispensing seed amongst a plurality of rows. The inventive device includes a vacuum drum rotably mounted within a pressurized housing, a supply tube is connected to the housing and to a manifold to provide pressurized and seed to the housing, a vacuum seed connected to the vacuum drum along the vacuum drum's rotational axis whereby the vacuum tube is connected to a vacuum source, a vacuum channel within an outer periphery of the vacuum drum, a band member containing a plurality of apertures at a specified distance apart, and a seed tube extending into the housing with an engaging end near the band member for plucking the seeds attached to the band member. The seeds are then dispensed through the seed tube into a furrow created by a conventional disk opener. A plurality of the inventions are to be aligned with one another with the respective vacuum tubes interconnected. In an alternative embodiments, there is a single housing rotatably containing the plurality of vacuum drums.
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Neustel Michael S.
Pezzuto Robert E.
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