Device for making sowing furrows in a lawn

• US 5,396,962 A
• Filed: 03/11/1994
• Issued: 03/14/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Redexim Handel en Exploitatie Maatschappij B.V.
• Original Assignee: Redexim Handel en Exploitatie Maatschappij B.V.
• Inventors: Reincke, Marinus
• Primary Examiner(s): Crowder, Clifford D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): LEWIS, PAUL
• Application Number:
  US08/209,613
• Time in Patent Office: 368 Days
• Field of Search: 172/705, 172/711, 172/764, 172/643, 172/387, 172/393, 172/394, 172/135, 172/174, 172/182, 172/604, 172/515, 172/516, 172/389, 111/901, 111/902, 111/139, 111/140, 111/141, 111/143
• US Class Current: 172/604
• CPC Class Codes: A01B 15/18 Coulters
• CPC Class Codes: A01C 5/064 with rotating tools
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 111/901 Lawn or turf

Abstract

A device for making sowing furrows in a lawn, provided with a mobile frame having a number of disc-like cutting members disposed adjacently of each other transversely of the direction of forward movement thereof and drivable round a horizontal shaft. According to the invention the cutting edge of each disc-like knife has a continually varying distance to the shaft of the knife, this such that the difference between the largest and smallest distance to the shaft of the knife lies in the order of magnitude of the cutting depth and the knife has one or more outward protruding lobes.

Claims

1. A method for making sowing furrows in a lawn with a furrowing device comprising:

disposing a device for making sowing furrows in a lawn, said device comprising;

a mobile frame;

a plurality of flat, planar elliptical cutting discs attached to said frame and disposed adjacently of each other transversely of the direction of forward movement thereof and drivable around a horizontal shaft, each of said cutting discs having a cutting edge having at least one outwardly protruding lobe, wherein each of said cutting discs is configured to penetrate a felt layer of the lawn and, wherein the distance between said cutting edge and said shaft continually varies;

the method further comprising the steps of;

exerting a force N on the ground by said cutting edge of said cutting disc;

rotating the cutting disc as the furrowing device moves across the ground such that the plane of the disc is parallel to the direction of forward movement of the device;

continually changing the direction and magnitude of the force N; and

making a furrow in the lawn.

2. A method for sowing furrows as set forth in claim 1 wherein said furrowing device further comprises a stationary cutting knife attached to said frame, said cutting knife positioned behind the path of said cutting disc, said method further comprising the steps of:

deepening and widening said furrow by said cutting knife.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2 further comprising the steps of placing grass seed in said furrows.