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Seeding boot with dry and liquid fertilizer distributors

  • US 10,398,075 B2
  • Filed: 01/29/2014
  • Issued: 09/03/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A seeding boot for a seeding apparatus mountable on a tyne of a tillage implement, the seeding boot including:

  • a boot body mountable at, or adjacent, a lower end of the tyne;

    a seed distributor on the boot body, the seed distributor having a substantially hollow distributor body and a pair of substantially hollow wings extending substantially laterally from the distributor body, each wing in the pair of wings provided with a seed outlet;

    a seed inlet connected to the distributor body, and connectable to a source of seeds to be planted, for the seed distributor; and

    a first fertilizer distributor and a second fertilizer distributor, each fertilizer distributor having a fertilizer outlet located downstream of the seed outlets, whereinthe fertilizer outlet of the first fertilizer distributor is connected to a source of dry or granular fertilizer by a dry fertilizer tube and a second one of the fertilizer outlet of the second fertilizer distributor is connected to a source of liquid fertilizer or other chemicals;

    the fertilizer outlets are aligned rearwardly of the tyne;

    the fertilizer outlet of the second fertilizer distributor is intermediate the tyne and the first fertilizer outlet of the first fertilizer distributor; and

    the fertilizer outlet of the first fertilizer distributor is at a reduced depth relative to the seed outlets whereby, in use, the fertilizer outlet of the first fertilizer distributor is at a reduced depth in the soil relative to the seed outlets.

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