Seed boot insert

• US 5,325,799 A
• Filed: 09/25/1992
• Issued: 07/05/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kennametal Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Kennametal Incorporated
• Inventors: Rowlett, Don C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Crowder, Clifford D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Neas, Michael A.
• Application Number:
  US07/951,631
• Time in Patent Office: 648 Days
• Field of Search: 111/81, 111/170, 111/34, 111/51, 111/124, 111/900, 111/154, 111/152, 111/150, 172/719, 172/772, 172/772.5
• US Class Current: 111/152
• CPC Class Codes: A01C 5/062 Devices for making drills or furrows

Abstract

A seed boot for depositing a seed within a furrow including spaced side members, a face plate extending between forward edges of the side members, and a rear spacer member extending between rearward edges of the side members, and a wear insert secured to each of the side members of the seed boot. The insert includes an elongated rectangular bar having a top and bottom surface, a leading and trailing face and longitudinal side faces extending between and around the peripheral edges of the top and bottom surfaces.

Claims

1. A seed boot for depositing a seed within a furrow comprising:

spaced side members, said side members of the seed boot are of a quadrangular form having a linear top edge and linear bottom edge, an insert secured to said linear bottom edge of each of said side members of the seed boot, each of said side members of the seed boot includes a rearwardly facing edge extending upwardly and forwardly from rearward corner bottom edge of said side member and a leading edge extending upwardly and forwardly from a forward corner bottom edge of said side member, said leading edge having a greater angle of inclination than the angle of inclination of said rearward edge of each of said side members of said seed boot, said side members of the seed boot are tapered downwardly and forwardly and said face plate of the seed boot is spaced from the bottom edge of said side members of the seed boot and extends upwardly and forwardly from the forward bottom corner of each side member between the forward leading edges of said side members of the seed boot;

a face plate extending between forward edges of said side members;

a rear spacer member extending between rearward edges of said side members; and

a wear insert secured to at least one of said side members of the seed boot, said insert is an elongated rectangular bar shape having a top and bottom surface, a leading and trailing face and longitudinal side faces extending between and around the peripheral edges of said top and bottom surfaces, at least two of the corners formed by the intersection of said top surface and said longitudinal side faces of said insert are radiused.

2. The seed boot of claim 1 wherein said spacer member is s-shaped.