Drill for applying seed and fertilizer

• US 4,580,507 A
• Filed: 04/29/1983
• Issued: 04/08/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/1982
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Amazonen-Werke H Dreyer GmbH & Company KG
• Original Assignee: Amazonen-Werke H Dreyer GmbH & Company KG
• Inventors: Dreyer, Heinz, Wiemeyer, Benno
• Primary Examiner(s): Feyrer, James R.
• Application Number:
  US06/489,899
• Time in Patent Office: 1,075 Days
• Field of Search: 172/624.5, 172/705, 172/266-268, 172/484, 111/52, 111/73, 111/80, 111/85-87, 111/34
• US Class Current: 111/73
• CPC Class Codes: A01B 61/046 the device including an energy accumulator for restoring the tool to its working position
• CPC Class Codes: A01C 5/062 Devices for making drills or furrows
• CPC Class Codes: A01C 7/06 Seeders combined with fertilising apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 40/22 Improving land use; Improving water use or availability; Controlling erosion
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 111/927 Parallelogram mounting

Abstract

A drill for applying seed and fertilizer, with a frame, reservoirs, sowing shares with at least two separate inlets for seed and fertilizer, and a depth-adjustment or pressure roller mounted behind each share, in which the materials to be applied are conveyed in controlled amounts to the shares for application into the soil, in which the shares are connected to the frame with parallelogrammatic mounts and the depth to which the penetrate into the soil can be adjusted by means of a setting device. The drill can be used for zero tillage even on rocky soil to apply seed and fertilizer separately because the sowing share is a chisel share on which a chisel is mounted on the side facing the direction of travel. The chisel share has separate guides for seed and fertilizer inside its body. The outlets for these guides are separated in the direction of travel by a certain distance with the first outlet positioned as close as possible behind the chisel point. The chisel point extends deeper into the soil than the two outlets.

Claims

1. In a drill for direct seeding which is movable in a given direction of travel for applying seed and fertilizer into soil, the drill having a frame, sowing shares with at least two separate inlets and outlets for seed and fertilizer and a pressure roller mounted behind each share, means for conveying the seed and fertilizer in controlled amounts through separate conduits inside the shares for application into the soil, wherein the outlets are at an interval from each other along the direction of travel, wherein the shares are connected to the frame with parallelogram mounts to mount each share and allow vertical adjustment of the depth to which the share penetrates into the soil, each sowing share has chisel at the front thereof in the direction of travel;

roller means limiting the depth ofthe shares the improvement wherein;

each sowing share has continuous substantially parallel plates extending rearwardly of the sides of the chisel in the direction of travel to the rearmost outlet and said parallelogram mounts maintaining the front of each chisel with respect to the direction of travel substantially vertical straight down direction, the sides of the lowest part of the chisel penetrating into the soil are no wider than the sides at the top of the chisel and the chisel has at least approximately the same width as the width between the sides of the share plates and wherein the forwardmost outlet is defined by the rear face of the chisel and direclty aimed immediately behind the chisel and the rearmost outlet terminates rearwardly of the forwardmost outlet defined at the rear of the plates and substantially above the lowest part of the chisel and thereby the bottom ofthe furrow formed by the chisel;

the bottom edges of the parallel plates sloping upwardly, rearwardly from the forwardmost outlet to the rearmost outlet, whereby a layer of soil can be formed between the outlets as each share is advanced.

2. The drill according to claim 1, wherein the chisel has a chisel point at the lowest part which is narrower than the top of the chisel at least one the lower forward side of the chisel and the outer sides of the chisel point extend at least approximately parallel to the direction of travel.

3. The drill according to claim 2, wherein the width of the chisel point is substantially half the width of the chisel.

4. The drill according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the length of the chisel point is substantially equal to the width of the chisel.

5. The drill according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the length of the chisel point is substantially equal to the depth to which the seed is to be applied in the soil.

6. The drill according to claim 1, wherein the side of the chisel that faces the direction of travel is upright.

7. The drill according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the angle α

of transmission from the chisel to chisel point on both sides thereof which at least approximately parallel the direction of travel, is always less than 90°

from the horizontal and from the vertical.

8. The drill according to claim 7, wherein the angle α

ranges approximately from 30°

to 60°

.

9. The drill according to claim 8, wherein the angle α

is 45°

.

10. The drill according to claim 7, wherein the transition at an angle α

that deviates from 90°

comprises a welded seam.

11. The drill according to claim 10, wherein the narrow chisel point is joined to the chisel with the welded seam.

12. The drill according to claim 1, wherein the chisel has a chisel point provided with armor only in a forward area including an upright region facing the direction of travel and a portion of the underside of the chisel point only along a forward portion facing the direction of travel.