Apparatus for supplying fertilizer to the soil

• US 3,319,589 A
• Filed: 08/02/1965
• Issued: 05/16/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Jesse N. Moran
• Original Assignee: Jesse N. Moran
• Inventors: Moran, Jesse N.
• Application Number:
  US04/476,530
• Time in Patent Office: 652 Days
• US Class Current: 111/121
• CPC Class Codes: A01C 23/025 Continuous injection tools

Claims

1. A FERTILIZER APPLICATOR ASSEMBLY FOR SUPPLYING FERTILIZER TO THE SOIL COMPRISING IN COMBINATION A DISK-TYPE ROTATABLE COLTER FOR CUTTING A FURROW IN THE SOIL IN RESPONSE TO ROTATIONAL MOVEMENT OF SAID COLTER;

A CLAMP ADAPTED TO BE RIGIDLY ATTACHED TO THE TOOL BAR OF A FERTILIZER APPLICATOR VEHICLE;

HORIZONTAL PIVOT MEANS INCLUDING A HOUSING CONNECTED TO SAID CLAMP AND A SHAFT IN SAID HOUSING, SAID HOUSING AND SAID SHAFT BEING MOUNTED TO ALLOW SAID SHAFT TO BE ROTATED IN SAID HOUSING ABOUT A SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICAL AXIS DISPOSED LONGITUDINALLY WITH SAID SHAFT;

VERTICAL PIVOT MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID HORIZONTAL PIVOT MEANS AND SAIL COLTER, TO ALLOW SAID VERTICAL PIVOT MEANS AND SAID COLTER TO BE MOVED IN A VERTICAL PLANE ABOUT A HORIZONTAL AXIS;

AND AN INJECTION KNIFE CONNECTED TO SAID VERTICAL PIVOT MEANS AND DEPENDING THEREFROM FOR ALLOWING FERTILIZER TO BE INJECTED INTO THE FURROW FORMED BY SAID COLTER.