Abstract:
A coulter closing wheel assembly, a method of planting, and a mid row banding pneumatic coulter drill assembly support vehicle. One fertilizer coulter is positioned between two seeding coulters. The seeding coulters are followed by a furrow closing disc which scrubs the ground and pushes soil back into the furrow. The seeding coulters are also followed directly by a packer wheel. The fertilizer coulters may or may not employ a furrow closing disc, depending on the type of fertilizer and the type of soil. In the event of granular or liquid nitrogen fertilizers the closing disc is generally not necessary. However, when a gaseous fertilizer such as anhydrous ammonia is applied to the soil, the furrow closing disc is necessary in order to prevent the escape of the anhydrous ammonia into the atmosphere. The coulters are firmly attached to horizontal frame members of the drill and placed at an angle of a few degrees off the direction of travel. The injection of fertilizer directly between a pair of seed rows ensures a steady supply of nitrogen or other fertilizers throughout the growing period. In addition, since the fertilizer is placed a fair distance from each of the seed rows, it will not scorch or burn the roots of the growing crop.
Abstract:
A one pass seedbed preparation device having two fluted coulter assemblies per seedbed. The coulter assemblies are attachable to existing seed planting apparatus at their bias spring housings and are offset to provide self-cleaning action. Fertilizer delivery is then provided to an area surrounding the seedbed raised by the coulter wheels. The fertilizer may be delivered by a knife-blade cultivator, an injector or a rolling-disc drive.
Abstract:
A seeding device principally for no-tillage seeding conditions comprises a drag arm carrying two disk blades and transmitting the necessary forces thereto to cut through crop residues at the ground surface and to open a furrow for seed placement in the soil. The smaller disk is oriented vertically, whereas the larger disk extends at a compound angle from a lower front contact point between the two disks which thus define a V-shaped opener. The larger disk is angled relative to both the direction of travel and to a vertical axis to cut through residues and the soil and to displace a volume of soil for forming a trench. The smaller disk retains soil on a side of the furrow to allow a tube to deliver seeds therein. The smaller blade can also cut residues at the point of contact between the two disks to avoid trash buildup thereat. A depth control wheel which follows the ground surface in order to maintain the disk blades at a constant depth during furrow opening can be adjusted to obtain various seed depths in the soil. At the rear end of the seeding device, a press wheel closes the furrow by replacing the disturbed soil into it and firms the soil around the seeds. The press wheel can be spring biased towards the ground and the spring force adjusted so that the press wheel exerts the appropriate pressure on the soil surrounding the seeds.
Abstract:
A seed drill includes a conventional single or double disc blade soil opener for creating seed trenches for the deposition of seeds by a seeder. A scraper/soil firming assembly is attached to the outside of each disc blade axle. The scraper/soil firming assembly includes a bracket for mounting a scraper/soil firming blade and a locking plate for locking the mounting bracket and blade at a selected angle relative to the disc blade axle. The scraper/soil firming blade is a flat bar extending downward and rearward from the respective disc blade and positioned alongside the disc blade and to act both as a blade scraper and as a soil firmer.
Abstract:
A coulter fertilizer applicator for use with a frame adapted to be moved over soil to be tilled and fertilized includes a linkage arm connected to the frame, and a coulter wheel secured to the linkage arm to form a seedbed in the soil. Included is a fertilizer tine formed of a single spring element having a forward end secured to the linkage arm. The single spring element further includes a free end opposite the forward end which is in the plane of rotation of the coulter wheel and adjacent the top surface of the soil. A fertilizer dispenser is attached to the single spring element adjacent the free end for applying fertilizer within the seedbed.
Abstract:
An agricultural planting machine has a pair of adjacent furrow opening disks that form a V-shaped furrow as the machine advances and a pair of ground engaging gauge wheels respectively mounted for rotation adjacent the opposite sides of the opening disks. The gauge wheels are journaled on the lower ends of a pair of arms having their upper ends attached to the planter frame by mechanisms that permit easy lateral adjustment of the arms to optimize the close spacing between the gauge wheels and the opening disks. Each adjusting mechanisms includes an externally threaded bushing mounted on a shaft and engaging an internally threaded bore in the gauge wheel arm so that rotation of the bushing laterally shifts the arm and the gauge wheel mounted thereon. A locking device is operative between the bushing and the shaft to selectively lock the adjusting mechanism in the desired position.
Abstract:
Apparatus for laying seeds includes a towable frame from which one or more blades are supported for cutting a slot in the ground surface below, a seed and fertiliser chute feeds seed into the cut ground surface via a channel formed between the frame and blade(s) and tines which make a horizontal branch cut from the slot. A scraper device continually cleans the blade(s).
Abstract:
A device for placing seed into the soil at a specific pitch in which radiating spikes of two star wheel formed discs are brought together by rotating the discs synchronously at an angle and that each of the radiating spikes has on its inner side a hollow channel forming an internal closed funnel when the spikes are brought together and opens when by further rotating the spikes move away from each other. The means for placing seed or small objects into the funnels consists of a hub disposed about the axis of rotation of the disc and mounted to rotate with the discs which hub is provided with cells adapted to receive the seed or the other small objects and to release them upon rotation of the discs so they can fall under gravity into the funnel. The device is particularly suitable for the sowing of seed in soil covered by a thick crop residue.
Abstract:
The mixing head comprises a pair of opposed, spaced apart, generally vertical discs that are generally aligned with the direction of travel, although they are slightly angled so as to be wider apart at their front ends than at their rear ends. The discs are rotatably mounted to a free floating frame. Each disc has a plurality of radially extending, elongated, broad, rigid, chisel-like teeth which extend from the disc central portion out beyond its circumferential rim. The discs are driven to rotate against the direction of travel. When rotating, the disc and teeth formations operate to cut down into the coil and excavate it in portions carried by the teeth. The portions are moved inwardly by the angled formations and then thrown and dropped to the rear. The furrow formed has a flat-topped ridge overtopped with a loose mix of excavated soil and humus. The furrow is a good growing site for implanted seedlings.
Abstract:
The invention comprises an adjustable scraper device for scraping the disc blades of a grain drill. The device has a fixed mounting on the mounting for supporting the disc blades and a slidable mounting slidable along the fixed mounting to a selected adjusted position relative to the disc blade support mounting and the disc blades. Scrapers are mounted to the slidable mounting between the disc blades to be slid with the slidable mounting toward the center axis of the disc blades so that as the disc blade outer circumferential edge wears down, the scrapers, which act to scrape the disc blades, may be adjusted toward the center axis of the disc blades to keep the entire scraping portion of the scrapers within the confines of the outer circumferential edge of the disc blades, so that the scraping portion of the scraper will not wear on the outer edge of the disc blades and cause damage to the scraping portion of the scraper.