摘要:
An agricultural implement (100) is disclosed. The agricultural implement (100) is adapted to be moved over soil and distribute fertilizer to a plurality of rows, the agricultural implement (100) comprising: a fertilizer container (108); a plurality of fertilizer metering units (130) each configured to distribute fertilizer to one of the plurality of rows and including (i) a housing (132) having an inlet (156) configured to receive fertilizer from the fertilizer container (108) and an outlet (158), and (ii) a metering device (134) positioned in the housing (132) and configured to rotate to move fertilizer through the outlet (158) of the fertilizer metering unit (130); and a plurality of motors (136) each drivingly coupled to and configured to rotate at least one metering device (134). Further, a method for precision-controlling a plurality of fertilizer metering units (130) adapted for use in an agricultural implement (100) is disclosed.
摘要:
An apparatus and method to precisely meter and dispense two or more crop inputs with a common metering disc is presented to achieve proper placement in the soil relative to one another. In one embodiment, dry granular or granulized fertilizer is metered from one side of the disc and seed is metered from the opposite side of the same metering disc. The fertilizer is placed in a concentrated pulse approximately equal distances between seeds within a common seed furrow and/or between seed furrows to improved nutrient use efficiency by minimizing soil to fertilizer contact and subsequent chemical reactions that make applied supplemental nutrients less available to plants. Pressurized air may be utilized to assist discharge of both the seed and fertilizer from the disc meter to assure precise spacing in the soil. A cover may be placed on the meter and metering disc to recirculate air and thus minimize potential atmospheric contamination from seed coatings and fertilizer materials.
摘要:
Referring to the drawings, wherein like reference numerals designate identical or corresponding parts throughout the several views, FIG. 1 illustrates a side elevation view of a single row unit (10) of a conventional row crop planter such as the type disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 7,438,006, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated herein in its entirety by reference. As is well known in the art, the row units (10) are mounted in spaced relation along the length of a transverse toolbar (12) by a parallel linkage (14), comprised of upper and lower parallel arms (16, 18) pivotally mounted at their forward ends to the transverse toolbar (12) and at their rearward end to the row unit frame (20).
摘要:
Referring to the drawings, wherein like reference numerals designate identical or corresponding parts throughout the several views, FIG. 1 illustrates a side elevation view of a single row unit (10) of a conventional row crop planter such as the type disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 7,438,006, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated herein in its entirety by reference. As is well known in the art, the row units (10) are mounted in spaced relation along the length of a transverse toolbar (12) by a parallel linkage (14), comprised of upper and lower parallel arms (16, 18) pivotally mounted at their forward ends to the transverse toolbar (12) and at their rearward end to the row unit frame (20).
摘要:
[Summary] [Object] There is provided a granular substance distribution device that is adapted to granular substances having various sizes and shapes and is capable of achieving high speed and highly accurate distribution of both a single granular substance at a time and plural granular substances at a time. [Organization] There are included: a rotation mechanism rotating a drive shaft; a supply-side frame body; a distribution plate provided with holders each holding a granular substance or a predetermined amount of granular substances supplied to the inside of the supply-side frame body therein in an outer circumferential portion thereof; a discharge plate provided with recessed portions each holding the granular substance or granular substances therein in an outer circumferential portion thereof in a manner to correspond to positions of the holders; a delivery plate disposed between the distribution plate and the discharge plate and having a delivery hole through which the granular substances are delivered from the distribution plate to the discharge plate formed in an upper portion thereof; and a discharge-side frame body covering the outer circumference of the discharge plate and provided with a discharge port through which the granular substance or granular substances held in each of the recessed portions is or are discharged in a lower end portion thereof, and the distribution plate and the discharge plate both rotate in the same direction and at the same speed about the drive shaft.