Seed boot opener having interchangeable dispensers

• US 7,096,803 B2
• Filed: 06/09/2004
• Issued: 08/29/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gen Manufacturing
• Original Assignee: Gen Manufacturing
• Inventors: Bergen, Henry J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Novosad, Christopher J.
• Application Number:
  US10/863,954
• Publication Number:
  US 20050274309A1
• Time in Patent Office: 811 Days
• Field of Search: 111/123, 111/124, 111/125, 111/154, 111/155, 111/156, 111/170, 111/186, 111/187, 111/188, 172/772, 172/772.5
• US Class Current: 111/124
• CPC Class Codes: A01C 5/062 Devices for making drills or furrows
• CPC Class Codes: A01C 7/06 Seeders combined with fertilising apparatus

Abstract

A seed boot having a modular or replaceable opener removably fastened to the seed boot. The opener is configured in any of several embodiments for discharging a fluent material such as seed in different ways, including narrow single row, wide single row, and double row. A second fluent material such as fertilizer may be dispensed in an additional discharge stream in different embodiments. In some embodiments, two fluent materials may be mixed within the seed boot and dispensed together.

Claims

1. A seed boot having a dispensing opener for discharging fluent materials into the ground, comprising:

a body having a pointed leading end, a right side and a left side, a draft apparatus engaging element, and

a first and a s second upwardly opening conduit, each conduit having a proximal end bearing an element for engaging a supply tube and a distal end opening at the bottom of said body,

the body of the seed boot is adapted to secure different removable dispensing openers,

wherein the removable dispending opener includes a first passage communicating with said first opening conduit of said seed boot and terminating at a ribbon seeding nozzle having a discharge opening dimensioned and configured to discharge fluent material from said left side of said body continuously to said right side of said body, and a second passage communicating with said second opening conduit of said seed boot and having a discharge opening at the bottom of said seed boot.

2. The seed boot according to claim 1, further comprising a cutting insert mountable on said body of said seed boot at said pointed leading end, and a fastener disposed to removably secure said cutting insert to said body of said seed boot.