Planting – Plant setting – Plant dispensing
Patent
1988-10-21
1990-06-19
DeMille, Danton D.
Planting
Plant setting
Plant dispensing
111109, 111 77, 111177, 221265, 172101, A01C 1102
Patent
active
049342908
ABSTRACT:
A planter for placement of plants in spaced parallel rows in the soil has a plant dispenser fed manually or automatically from a plant supply and delivering to a furrow-opening coulter assembly and press wheels. The plant dispenser comprises a drum having an internal impeller defining plant-receiving chutes through which the plants pass, and thence downwards and outwards through an opening in the drum. The coulter assembly has reciprocated coulter side plates which receive and support each plant in a receiving zone between them, and by forward movement relative to the plant and relative to a fixed placement member located in front of the plant, allow soil to flow back to cover the plant's root ball. The press wheels are mounted with a variable caster angle to vary their soil-gathering affect. A hitch has twin parallel toolbars whereby the row units are freely laterally position-adjustable even across the tractor hitch.
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Miller Manufacturing Co., "Heavy-Duty Rigid Offset Disc Series II".
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