Planting – Drilling and broadcasting – Main and auxiliary frame machines
Patent
1981-06-18
1983-05-24
Feyrer, James R.
Planting
Drilling and broadcasting
Main and auxiliary frame machines
111 73, 111 89, A01C 504, A01C 1102
Patent
active
043845371
ABSTRACT:
A planter for discharging a quantity of germinated seed and a gel into a seed bed covered by a plastic film which has an opening formed therethrough and a cavity formed in the seed bed thereunder to receive the seed and gel. In addition, the planter discharges a measured quantity of growth media, such as soil with nutrients or the like incorporated therein, onto the gel and germinated seed through the same opening in the plastic film or mulch. The planter includes a squeeze tube pump for discharging a measured quantity of gel and germinated seed which operates in timed unison with a heated, bullet-shaped burner for forming an opening in the thermoplastic film and a cavity in the underlying seed bed with ground-engaging wheels operating the mechanism for forming the openings and discharging the germinated seed and gel at predetermined intervals and thus at predetermined spatial relationships. The media distribution system includes a hopper with a rotatable plate arrangement having cylindrical pockets formed therein for discharging a predetermined quantity of media, such as soil and nutrients, through the same opening immediately in trailing relation to the discharge nozzle for the gel and germinated seed with the ground-engaging wheels also operating the media distribution system.
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patent: 2636459 (1953-04-01), Graves
patent: 2993626 (1961-07-01), Gildersleeve
patent: 3306239 (1967-02-01), Martin
patent: 4117787 (1978-10-01), Pavan
patent: 4265185 (1981-05-01), Skipper
patent: 4306508 (1981-12-01), Skipper
Feyrer James R.
Jacobson Harvey B.
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