Seed drill

• US 4,726,304 A
• Filed: 10/25/1985
• Issued: 02/23/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Amazonen-Werke H Dreyer GmbH & Company KG
• Original Assignee: Amazonen-Werke H Dreyer GmbH & Company KG
• Inventors: Dreyer, Heinz, Wiemeyer, Benno
• Primary Examiner(s): Johnson, Richard J.
• Application Number:
  US06/791,261
• Time in Patent Office: 851 Days
• Field of Search: 111/59, 111/73, 111/80, 111/85, 111/86, 111/7
• US Class Current: 111/73
• CPC Class Codes: A01C 5/06 Machines for making or covering drills or furrows for sowing or planting
• CPC Class Codes: A01C 5/062 Devices for making drills or furrows
• CPC Class Codes: A01C 5/066 Devices for covering drills or furrows
• CPC Class Codes: A01C 7/06 Seeders combined with fertilising apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: A01C 7/20 Parts of seeders for conducting and depositing seed
• 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 seed drill has a frame, reservoirs, sowing shares, at least two separate inlets and outlets for two different materials, and a depth-guide or pressure roller behind each sowing share. Variable amounts of one material are conveyed to the forward outlet and of the other material to the rear outlet through separate conductors inside the sowing shares for application of the soil. The outlets are separated along the direction of travel. There is a narrow ripping structure on the forward edge of each sowing share to rip up the soil and produce a furrow. An expansion structure that extends down into the furrow is positioned in the vicinity of the rear outlet of each sowing share. The expansion structure is at least somewhat wider than the ripping structure. The bottom end of the expansion structure is higher than the bottom of the point of the ripping structure.

Claims

1. In a seed drill having a frame, reservoirs for materials, means mounting the sowing shares on the frame including parallelogram holders, at least two separate inlets and outlets for the two different materials from the reservoirs, and a pressure roller behind each sowing share along the direction of travel, and wherein variable amounts of first material are conveyed to a forward outlet and of the second material to a rear outlet through separate channels inside the sowing shares for application in the soil, with the outlets separated along the direction of travel, and wherein each sowing share has a narrow ripping structure on the lower edge thereof to rip up the soil and produce a furrow having side edges, the improvement comprising:

means for expanding the side edges of the furrow, said means including an upwardly extending portion received within downwardly opening recess in each sowing share, and removable transverse in means extending through said upwardly extending portion to releasably mount said expanding means, said expanding means extending down into the furrow and positioned in the vicinity of the rear outlet of each sowing share, wherein the expanding means is wider than the ripping structure and has a bottom end which is higher than the bottom of the ripping structure and wherein the means for expanding when mounted is positioned to effect the deposit of second material from the rear outlet on top of the first material with soil therebetween in a wider ribbon-like distribution than the first material and when removed permits the second material to be deposited directly on top of the first material.

2. The seed drill as in claim 1, wherein the greatest width of the expanding means is at the bottom thereof.

3. The seed drill as in claim 1, wherein the expanding means has an armored bottom forward edge.

4. The seed drill as in claim 1, further comprising an impact member mounted on the rear of the expanding means and impacted by material from the reservoirs.

5. The seed drill as in claim 4, wherein the impact member is narrower than the expanding means.

6. The seed drill as in claim 1, further comprising a fender extending along the direction of travel and mounted on each side of the expanding means.

7. The seed drill as in claim 1, further comprising a partition extending along the direction of travel and mounted inside the rear outlet.

8. The seed drill as in claim 7, wherein the partition tapers outward from top to bottom to form two separate rear outlets at a slight distance apart.

9. The seed drill as in claim 8, wherein the separate rear outlets slope at least slightly outward.

10. The seed drill as in claim 7, wherein the partition is mounted on the expanding means.

11. The seed drill as in claims 3, further comprising a partition extending along the direction of travel and mounted in the rear outlet and on the expanding means for removal therewith.

12. The seed drill as in claim 11, wherein the separate rear outlets slope at least slightly outward.