Planting – Drilling and broadcasting – Main and auxiliary frame machines
Patent
1977-03-15
1978-05-30
Eickholt, E.H.
Planting
Drilling and broadcasting
Main and auxiliary frame machines
111 52, 111 6, A01C 1100, A01C 2302
Patent
active
040917517
ABSTRACT:
An automatic planting machine for planting plants particularly small and/or young trees, specially designed for forestation and/or reforestation and the like. The machine has, in each of its main wheels, at least one planting tube radially movable and capable of projecting through an aperture in the rim of the wheel coincident with the moment at which a plant is set in the furrow opened by the machine. To open the furrow in the soil, a furrow opening blade is provided in front of each main wheel. Behind each main wheel a pair of auxiliary rear wheels are provided which are capable of tamping the soil at the sides of the plant set in the furrow, and each of said auxiliary rear wheels may be sloped. Means are provided which are capable of feeding plants, one at a time, to each planting tube, the operation of said feeding means and the movement of each planting tube being timed with the rotation of the pertinent main wheel. The machine may be provided with means (e.g. hydraulic) for removing the main wheels from contacting the ground for transportation. A water reservoir and water feeding means may be provided for feeding water to the planted plants. Optionally, conveyor means for forwarding plant containing cases, may also be provided.
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Dri Alfredo Felix
Miranda Jorge Cesar
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