Planter

• US 3,373,705 A
• Filed: 04/30/1965
• Issued: 03/19/1968
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Harold V. Hansen, Virgil R. Mccumber
• Original Assignee: Harold V. Hansen, Virgil R. Mccumber
• Inventors: Hansen, Harold V., Mccumber, Virgil R.
• Application Number:
  US04/452,328
• Time in Patent Office: 1,054 Days
• US Class Current: 111/188
• CPC Class Codes: A01C 7/06 Seeders combined with fertilising apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 111/905 Seed treating seed planter

Claims

1. A PLANTER COMPRISING A WHEELED FRAME, A SEED HOPPER MOUNTED ON THE FRAME, SAID HOPPER HAVING A PLURALITY OF SEED SELECTING MEANS, A PLURALITY OF FURROW OPENERS MOUNTED ON THE FRAME, MEANS INTERCONNECTING THE SEED SELECTING MEANS WITH THE FURROW OPENERS, SAID MEANS INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF IMPELLING TUBES, EACH OF SAID TUBES INCLUDING A FIRST PORTION THAT RECEIVES THE SEED FROM THE ASSOCIATED SEED SELECTING MEANS AND A SECOND PORTION THAT DISCHARGES THE SEED, MEANS LEADING AWAY FROM THE SECOND PORTION OF EACH IMPELLING TUBE TO THE ASSOCIATED OPENER, EACH IMPELLING TUBE BEING PROVIDED WITH PASSAGES IN ITS WALLS, SAID PASSAGES BEING DIRECTED INWARDLY TOWARDS THE SECOND PORTION, AND A SURGE CHAMBER CONNECTED TO A SOURCE OF FLUID PRESSURE, SAID IMPELLING TUBES BEING CARRIED BY THE SURGE CHAMBER WITH SAID PASSAGES BEING IN COMMUNICATION WITH SAID SURGE CHAMBER.