公开(公告)号：US20170359950A1

公开(公告)日：2017-12-21

申请号：US15187693

申请日：2016-06-20

申请人： Tim C. Van Horlick Forestry Inc.

发明人： Timothy Charles VAN HORLICK

IPC分类号： A01C11/02 ,  A01C5/04

CPC分类号： A01C11/02 ,  A01C5/04

摘要： An automated planter device for planting seedlings in an obstacle-strewn and/or uneven terrain. A laterally extendable boom is provided at the end of a vertically-moveable arm, which arm may also be swung from side to side. The boom has a plurality of spaced-apart seedling injectors thereon for planting seedlings. Advantageously, due to variably adjustable positioning of the seedling injectors on the boom, obstacles encountered such as tree stumps or medium sized rocks capable of being traversed but which otherwise create an obstacle to a typical seedling planter, may be avoided. The seedling injectors are each coupled via vacuum hoses to a bin mounted on the planter, which vacuum hoses supply seedlings from the bin to the injectors. A powered gantry at the rear of the planter unloads the bin from the planter when empty, and engages and lifts a re-stocked bin containing additional seedlings onto the rear of the device.