Planting – Drilling and broadcasting – Main and auxiliary frame machines
Patent
1976-10-21
1978-09-12
Burr, Edgar S.
Planting
Drilling and broadcasting
Main and auxiliary frame machines
172518, A01C 1100
Patent
active
041128575
ABSTRACT:
The spot planter includes a frame movable forwardly over the ground behind a towing vehicle. A reciprocating dibble is pivotally mounted on the frame and reciprocates toward and away from the ground to cut a series of planting pockets in the ground, and a seedling ejector reciprocates with the dibble and ejects seedlings into the planting pockets. A packing wheel is also mounted on the frame and is positioned behind and to the side of the dibble and also moves toward and away from the ground to engage the ground adjacent the planting pockets and to close the planting pockets about the seedlings. A passenger compartment is mounted on the frame on the other side of the dibble from the packing wheel and a workman repeatedly places a seedling in the seedling ejector and actuates the planting cycle of the machine. The annular ground engaging surface of the packing wheel is concave with the edge away from the dibble being of larger diameter than the closer edge, and the packing wheel rotates on an axis which causes the larger portion of the packing wheel to sweep and compress the dirt adjacent the planting pockets laterally toward the planting pockets to close the planting pockets about the seedlings and to form depressions in the ground adjacent the seedlings substantially without reducing the height of the soil adjacent the seedlings.
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Burr Edgar S.
Feyrer James R.
Marden Manufacturing Company, Inc.
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