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Top dresser

  • US 5,307,952 A
  • Filed: 09/22/1992
  • Issued: 05/03/1994
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/06/1991
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A top dresser adapted to be pulled across the ground in a first direction comprising, in combination:

  • a frame;

    means for movably supporting the frame upon the ground;

    a hopper mounted to the frame and having closed first and second sides, a closed bottom, and an open front;

    a discharge gate movable between the sides of the hopper in the first direction from a first, expanded position to a second, unloaded position adjacent to the open front of the hopper;

    a cylindrical dispensing drum rotatably mounted adjacent to the front of the hopper about an axis located below the closed bottom of the hopper;

    a metering gate movably mounted at the front of the hopper and movable relative to the dispensing drum to meter the amount of material passing between the metering gate and the dispensing drum, with the discharge gate moving the material in the hopper in the first direction towards the dispensing drum for dispensing thereby, with the movably supporting means being spaced from the dispensing drum in a direction opposite to the first direction, with the material being dispensed by the dispensing drum in front of the hopper and the movably supporting means as the top dresser is being pulled in the first direction.

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