Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multiple seed-type seed meter
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Application No.: US14456788Application Date: 2014-08-11
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Publication No.: US09723779B2Publication Date: 2017-08-08
- Inventor: Keith W. Wendte , Brian T. Adams
- Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLC
- Applicant Address: US PA New Holland
- Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
- Current Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US PA New Holland
- Agent Rebecca L. Henkel; Rickard K. DeMille
- Main IPC: A01C21/00
- IPC: A01C21/00 ; A01C7/04 ; A01C7/08

Abstract:
A seed meter is provided for planting multiple types of seed and rapidly switching between the types being planted in a single planting pass of a planting session of row-crop planting. The seed meter has a segmented seed meter reservoir with multiple seed meter chambers arranged between two pairs of seed disks that may be better parallel to each other or angled with respect to each other to define an X-shaped arrangement of the seed disks in the seed meter. Activation and deactivation of the seed disks within the seed meter are synchronized to selectively deliver a single one of the multiple types of seed from the respective seed meter chamber for delivery out of a single seed tube of the seed meter, which may provide absolute and instantaneous on-the-go seed switching within a single row from each seed meter.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160037713A1 Multiple Seed-Type Seed Meter Public/Granted day:2016-02-11
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