Planting – Drilling – Furrow closer
Patent
1989-11-17
1991-07-30
De Mille, Danton D.
Planting
Drilling
Furrow closer
111130, 111177, 111184, 366195, 222238, 301 1, 301 36R, 172519, A01C 506, A01C 712, A01C 718, A01B 2900
Patent
active
050351907
ABSTRACT:
An implement for seeding "fluffy" grass seed comprising a seed box defining a plurality of seed compartments having a seed dispensing slot in a lower portion thereof. Seed delivery tubes are connected to the seed box so that each of the seed delivery tubes encompasses one of the seed dispensing slots. A picker wheel assembly is rotatably supported on the seed box such that a picker wheel is disposed in each of the seed dispensing slots and a directional flow agitator assembly is rotatably mounted in each of the seed compartments for agitating and directing seed toward the seed dispensing slots and into contact with the picker wheels. A packer assembly, designed to substantially "float" over the surface of the ground, is rotatably connected to the frame assembly so as to support the frame assembly while at the same time firming soil over and around seed dispensed from the seed compartments through the seed delivery tubes. The packer assembly, which is disposed rearward of the seed delivery tube, is provided with a substantially resilient ground engaging portion so as to provide the packer assembly, and thus the implement, with a "floating-type" motion as the packer assembly firms the soil over and around the seeds and thereby assures that the seeds are substantially uniformly planted to a desired depth.
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Burdick Glen M.
De Mille Danton D.
McCarthy Bill D.
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