Seed drill

• US 4,694,759 A
• Filed: 08/15/1985
• Issued: 09/22/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Amazonen-Werke H Dreyer GmbH & Company KG
• Original Assignee: Amazonen-Werke H Dreyer GmbH & Company KG
• Inventors: Scheufler, Bernd, Luhrmann, Johannes, Dreyer, Heinz, Wiemeyer, Benno
• Primary Examiner(s): Johnson, Richard J.
• Application Number:
  US06/766,000
• Time in Patent Office: 768 Days
• Field of Search: 172/709, 172/624.5, 172/264, 172/265, 172/266, 172/267, 172/268, 172/711, 111/85-87, 111/52, 111/73, 111/80, 111/61, 111/62
• US Class Current: 111/151
• CPC Class Codes: A01B 61/04 of the connection between tools and carrier beam or frame
• CPC Class Codes: A01C 5/062 Devices for making drills or furrows
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 111/927 Parallelogram mounting

Abstract

A seed drill for applying seed and/or fertilizer has a frame, reservoir, and sowing shares. The sowing shares are attached to the frame in such a way that they can move in an upright plane by means of superimposed and at least approximately parallel struts on parallelogram mounts. To essentially improve the share mounts, allowing them to be employed on direct-sowing seed drills and especially on soils thickly set with entrenched stones or other obstacles and preventing damage to the shares or share mounts when the shares are laterally overstressed, at least one strut on a parallelogram mount is elastic.

Claims

1. In a seed drill movable in a direction of travel for applying at least one of seed and fertilizer, having a frame, reservoir, sowing shares, and means attaching each sowing share to the frame to enable the sowing share to move in an upright plane parallel to the direction of travel including a parallelogram mount with superimposed and at least approximately parallel upper and lower struts, the improvement wherein the attaching means further comprises:

the upper strut having a longitudinal axis parallel to the direction of travel when in the horizontal working position, the lower strut having a narrow side and being inherently elastic and comprising spaced apart leaf springs, wherein the lower strut has connection means mounting a sowing share, the connection means including an axis extending transverse to the direction of travel and including an intermediary fastened to the leaf spring and to a bushing mounted on the intermediary and which is wider by a multiple of the narrow side of the lower strut and means including said elastic lower strut enabling the sowing share to deflect laterally about the longitudinal axis of the upper strut.

2. The seed drill according to claim 1, wherein the lower strut is positioned on edge such that the height is greater than the width.

3. The seed drill as in claim 1, wherein each lower strut comprising at least two mutually adjacent leaf springs positioned at intervals, wherein each sowing share is positioned between adjacent leaf springs, and wherein the sowing share is positioned at least approximately at the midpoint between the leaf springs along the direction of travel.

4. The seed drill according to claim 1, further comprising at least one of a depth-guidance and pressure roller mounted behind each sowing share relative to the direction of travel.

5. The seed drill according to claim 1, wherein the enabling means comprises the upper strut comprising a leaf spring and means connecting the upper strut to the frame.

6. The seed drill as in claim 1, wherein the enabling means comprises each upper strut being nonelastic and mounted to a share and to the frame through joints comprising ball-and-socket joints.

7. The seed drill according to claim 1, wherein the upper and lower struts are elastic.

8. The seed drill as in claim 1, wherein the upper struts include two articulated sections and are mounted to effect buckling against a resilient force.

9. The seed drill as in claim 1, wherein the means enabling elastic yielding comprises at least the lower struts of the parallelogram mounts being elastic and each includes one joint and wherein the axis of the joint extends at least approximately along the strut and along a direction of travel wherein each lower strut is divided into two sections connected by the joint and at least one resilient element is positioned between the two sections such that the two sections can rotate in relation to each other against the resilient force of the element.

10. The seed drill as in claim 9, wherein one section of the divided strut is positioned on the sowing share and has two mutually adjacent arms, and the one section is positioned between the arms on one side of the share, with the joint and the other section positioned on the other side and wherein a bracket is mounted on the forward section of the divided strut and at least one other bracket mounted on the rear section with the at least one resilient element positioned between the two brackets.

11. The seed drill as in claim 1, wherein the means enabling elastic yielding comprises means mounting at least the lower strut for pivotal movement around an axis that extends along the strut against a resilient force including a resilient connection at least at its point of attachment.

12. The seed drill as in claim 11, wherein the mounting means comprises one bracket welded onto a forward section of the lower strut, another bracket positioned on the joint through which the strut is articulated to the frame and wherein the resilient connection includes resilient elements forcing the brackets against each other, wherein a lower strut is positioned on each side of the sowing share and wherein the brackets are provided with four bores and bolts extending through the bores with the resilient elements positioned on the bolts.

13. The seed drill as in claim 1, wherein the means enabling elastic yielding comprises means mounting at least the lower strut on the sowing share to permit rotation of the share against a resilient force around an axis that extends along the lower strut, including an articulated bolt that connects the strut and the share positioned to move against a resilient force in relation to the share or the strut and wherein the bolt is movably mounted in the sowing share.

14. The seed drill as in claim 13, wherein the bolt has an annular offset positioned in a bearing bushing and resilient elements are positioned on the offset and force the bolt into a base positioned in the bearing bushing.

15. The seed drill as in claim 1, wherein the means enabling elastic yielding comprises the upper struts comprising leaf springs.

16. The seed drill as in claim 1, wherein the means enabling elastic yielding comprises the upper and lower strut being elastic.

17. The seed drill as in claim 1, wherein each sowing share is mounted on a lower strut, with joints and the axis of each joint extends across the direction of travel.