Abstract:
A machine for spreading fertilizer and seed in which the width of the machine with respect to its working direction of travel is greater than its length with respect to the working direction of travel. The machine comprises at least two individual machine units having lateral and transverse sides which units are assembled together in a lateral relationship to each other by means of laterally located hitch elements on each unit. Each unit has a chassis borne at three support points by swivel wheels and is provided with additional hitch elements on the transverse side towards the working direction. On each unit at least one swivel wheel is lockable in both a working direction of travel and in a transport direction of travel which directions are at right angles to each other. When assembled together through paired hitch elements, the machine units are pivotable with respect to each other about a pivot axis parallel to the working direction, and also pivotable about a second pivot axis running transversely to the working direction of travel. One of the swivel wheels on each unit when locked in the working direction is utilized to provide a rotating motion to metering means for the dispensing of fertilizer and seed from each machine unit.
Abstract:
A seed drill for applying seed and/or fertilizer has a frame, reservoir, and sowing shares. The sowing shares are attached to the frame in such a way that they can move in an upright plane by means of superimposed and at least approximately parallel struts on parallelogram mounts. To essentially improve the share mounts, allowing them to be employed on direct-sowing seed drills and especially on soils thickly set with entrenched stones or other obstacles and preventing damage to the shares or share mounts when the shares are laterally overstressed, at least one strut on a parallelogram mount is elastic.
Abstract:
A mounting device for mounting a spreading machine on a tractor. The device (FIG. 2; a front view) comprises an upright frame 2 outfitted with linkages for connection to the tractor and the spreader and a hydraulic system 20 for adjusting the elevation of the spreader on the mounting device for mid-season spreading of fertilizer. The construction is such that an open area 6 is provided to accommodate pivoting of a drive shaft 8 extending from the power take-off of the tractor to the spreader when the spreader is elevated.
Abstract:
A catalytically active composition for the gas phase oxidation of propylene to acrolein and acrylic acid, of the general formulaMo.sub.12 Bi.sub.0.1-10 Fe.sub.0.8-12 [Co,Ni].sub.0.1-10 P.sub.0-2 A.sub.0-10 B.sub.0.001-1 O.sub.xwhere A is arsenic, antimony, tin, thallium, tungsten, an alkaline earth metal, zinc and/or chromium, B is at least one of the metals sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium and/or indium and X is the number determined by the atomic valences of the individual elements, is prepared by introducing all or some of the iron and molybdenum in the form of dried pulverulent iron molybdate gel into an aqueous solution or suspension of the other constituents and gelating the mixture by stirring and possibly heating, then comminuting, drying at elevated temperatures and finally calcining.
Abstract:
A drill for applying seed and fertilizer, with a frame, reservoirs, sowing shares with at least two separate inlets for seed and fertilizer, and a depth-adjustment or pressure roller mounted behind each share, in which the materials to be applied are conveyed in controlled amounts to the shares for application into the soil, in which the shares are connected to the frame with parallelogrammatic mounts and the depth to which the penetrate into the soil can be adjusted by means of a setting device. The drill can be used for zero tillage even on rocky soil to apply seed and fertilizer separately because the sowing share is a chisel share on which a chisel is mounted on the side facing the direction of travel. The chisel share has separate guides for seed and fertilizer inside its body. The outlets for these guides are separated in the direction of travel by a certain distance with the first outlet positioned as close as possible behind the chisel point. The chisel point extends deeper into the soil than the two outlets.
Abstract:
A machine for applying pellets and powder, especially micropellets, to the soil, incorporating, first, a reservoir with outlets, second, ridge wheels that are rotated by a drive shaft at varying rates and the distribute uniform volumes of the material flowing out of the reservoir through the outlets into exit pipes that communicate with a blower and that have outflow openings, and, third, base plates below the ridge wheels. To ensure uniform application of material that tends to clog up the ridge wheels the machine is provided with scrapers that are intended for cleaning the ridge wheels, that engage the depressions between the ridges, which are positioned one after the other in the sense of rotation, and that are appropriately constructed to scrape the depressions out.
Abstract:
A seed drill (FIG. 1 ) having a frame (1 ) with knife hoes (7 ) mounted thereon. The knife hoes are movable in a vertical plane and each has two laterally projecting wings (8 ) bent downwardly toward one another; the outer edges of the wings merge forwardly together to form a point. Each knife hoe has an upright strut (13 ) supporting the leading point of the knife. Further, each knife hoe is disposed on a shank (9 ) which is mounted on the frame with parallel guide means (10 ). The parallel guide means has at least one articulation (19 ) acting in a vertical plane, a stop (21 ) limiting forward swinging movement of the knife hoe about the articulation, and at least one resilient element (22 ) exerting a force on the knife hoe in the direction of the stop. The drill further includes a gauge wheel (16 ) for each knife hoe to limit the depth of penetration of the knife hoe into the soil.
Abstract:
A machine is provided which is mountable on another vehicle for effecting the pneumatic spreading of granular material along a working direction. The machine is of the type that has a central hopper divided in its lower area by a roof shaped middle part disposed in the working direction into two sections which have outlet openings and a metering device driven through a regulating drive which is receptive of material from the outlet openings. Tubes are provided which are receptive of material from the metering device and have a portion overreaching the hopper transversely of the working direction and discharge openings at the outer extremities thereof exposed at intervals from one another transversely of the working direction. A blower is situated forward of the machine and has an impeller shaft which is driveable by the powered take up shaft of the vehicle pulling the machine. An air duct connects the blower to the tube. In order to obtain a compact construction, the blower has the front walls thereof disposed behind the front wall of the hopper and the impeller shaft is mounted at the rear end of the hopper and is driven from the power take off shaft of the vehicle pulling the machine by a shaft disposed underneath the roof shaped middle part of the hopper.
Abstract:
A seed drill having single-disk furrow openers 6 set at an acute angle .alpha. to the direction of travel. The total number of furrow-opener disks is divisible by four, and one half of the furrow-opener disks in each transverse row are set at the acute angle (.alpha.) relative to the direction of travel which is directed to one side, and the half are set at an angle .alpha. which is directed to the other side.
Abstract:
A centrifugal spreader (FIG. 1) for spreading granulated fertilizers has a funnel-shaped hopper, a discharge outlet in the lower portion of the hopper, and adjustor means for adjusting the size of and shutting off the outlet. A drivable agitator is disposed in the hopper, and spreading means 11 is disposed beneath the hopper for receiving fertilizer issuing from the outlet and spreading the fertilizer. The spreader 11 is releasably mounted on a drive shaft 16 and is exchangeable for a different spreading means. The spreader can be set in a position in which the distance (A) between the highest point of the spreader and the part of the hopper situated above said highest point as seen longitudinally of the drive shaft, is greater than the distance (B) between the lower edge of the fastening means 14 which releasably secures the spreader on the drive shaft, and the upper end of the drive shaft. Thereby removal of the spreader is facilitated.