Soil tilling and planting implement

• US 9,282,689 B2
• Filed: 04/02/2013
• Issued: 03/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: L & B Manufacturing, Inc.
• Original Assignee: L & B Manufacturing, Inc.
• Inventors: Van Buskirk, Loyd C., Meldahl, Brian R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Novosad, Christopher J
• Application Number:
  US13/855,149
• Publication Number:
  US 20140290545A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,078 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A01B 29/048 Bar cage rollers
• CPC Class Codes: A01B 49/06 for sowing or fertilising
• CPC Class Codes: A01B 63/32 operated by hydraulic or pneumatic means without automatic control
• CPC Class Codes: A01C 5/06 Machines for making or covering drills or furrows for sowing or planting
• CPC Class Codes: A01C 7/203 comprising depth regulation means

Abstract

The combination of a rolling basket tillage implement and a seed distribution implement is disclosed. A height-adjustable mounting system for a rolling basket soil tillage implement is also disclosed for use with a planter that enables such an implement to be raised above the soil as needed to avoid wet conditions.

Claims

1. A soil conditioning system comprising a remotely controllable height-adjustable attachment mechanism for applying adjustable directional force to an attached soil conditioning implement further comprising:

(a) a mounting plate adapted to be fixed to an assembly that is adapted to be drawn by a tractor;

(b) a height adjustable mounting arrangement pivotally attached to the mounting plate for carrying a soil conditioning implement, said height adjustable mounting arrangement extending away from the mounting plate;

(c) a soil conditioning implement carried by said height adjustable mounting arrangement;

(d) a mechanical device operatively coupled between the mounting plate and the height adjustable mounting arrangement for selectively raising and lowering said soil conditioning implement relative to ground or providing a directional force on said soil conditioning implement;

(e) wherein said mechanical device comprises a pneumatic operating system selected from single and dual-acting air bag systems; and

(f) a control system for said mechanical device that is operable from said tractor.

2. The soil, conditioning system as in claim 1 wherein said control system provides a moveable deploying and retracting force using a dual-acting air bag.

3. The soil conditioning system as in claim 1 wherein said system is a multi-row-treating device adapted to be connected to a plurality of said conditioning implements.

4. The soil conditioning system as in claim 1 wherein said soil conditioning implement is a rolling basket.

5. The soil conditioning system as in claim 1 wherein said mechanical device comprises a dual acting air bag.

6. The soil conditioning system as in claim 1 wherein said mechanical device comprises a single acting air bag.