Planting – Drilling and broadcasting – Main and auxiliary frame machines
Patent
1980-03-14
1981-07-14
Feyrer, James R.
Planting
Drilling and broadcasting
Main and auxiliary frame machines
111 6, 111 34, 111 89, 221 96, A01C 1100
Patent
active
042780357
ABSTRACT:
A seedling planter consisting of a portable frame on which is mounted a horizontally rotatable, vertically movable index plate carrying a vertically movable, normally lowered scraper blade, a telescopic seedling drop tube, an auger, an auger hydraulic motor and a gear box coupling the motor to the auger. A carousel tray containing seedlings is rotatably mounted on the frame over the index plate, being rotatable stepwise by a pawl on the end of the piston rod of a retraction-extension hydraulic cylinder mounted on the frame. A programming circuit operates solenoid valves activating respective hydraulic cylinders to perform a cycle consisting of first retracting the index plate, causing scraping of the ground, then elevating the scraper blade, then lowering the index plate and operating the auger so as to dig a hole, then raising and extending the index plate to bring the drop tube over the hole and to cause the carousel tray to rotate one step to bring a seedling over the hole and open a water valve to deliver a quantity of water under pressure over the seedling to drive it through the drop tube into the hole, then extending a packing blade to pack soil around the seedling, and then resetting the parts to starting positions.
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Ignacio Isidro D.
Pickett Teddy L.
Rojas Marco
Feyrer James R.
McConnell David G.
Silverstein M. Howard
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
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