Planting – Drilling – Frame and planting-element arrangement
Patent
1979-01-11
1980-12-30
Burr, Edgar S.
Planting
Drilling
Frame and planting-element arrangement
111 59, 111 73, 111 85, 172156, 172196, 172657, A01C 500
Patent
active
042416744
ABSTRACT:
A sub-soil planter machine has a frame, including front and rear transverse tool bars; a plurality of sub-soil blades mounted on and transversely spaced along the front tool bar; a plurality of rotary tilling assemblies mounted on and transversely spaced along the rear tool bar; and a plurality of planter units mounted on and transversely spaced along the rear tool bar in trailing relationship to the rotary tilling assemblies. The sub-soil blades, rotary tilling assemblies and planter units are so arranged in close proximity to one another such that the depth of the machine has been reduced whereby a given sized tractor, to which the machine is mounted on, is capable of lifting a larger machine than heretofore been accomplished due to the closeness of the machine to the rear end of the tractor resulting in a shorter length movement arm.
The rear tool bar is pivotally connected to the front tool bar whereas the rotary tilling assemblies and planter units are pivotally mounted on the rear tool bar whereby, each of the rotary tilling assemblies and planter units are free to float independently of one another and independently of the front tool bar thereby permitting the machine to follow the contour of the ground.
Furthermore, each of the planter units are connected to a respective one of the rotary tilling assemblies such that each combined unit can be moved in unison transversely along the rear tool bar to thereby facilitate the adjustment of the units in desired crop row spacings.
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Burr Edgar S.
Feyrer James R.
Mellinger Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Swartz Michael R.
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