COMBINE COVER CROP PLANTER
    1.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20230095837A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-30

    申请号:US18058462

    申请日:2022-11-23

    发明人: Max Pitt

    摘要: A planting system for a combine in embodiments of the present invention may have one or more of the following elements: (a) a soil opening system having one or more soil openers operably connected to one or more mounting arms operably attached to the combine, (b) a seed handling system having one or more seed dispensers with one or more seed tubes operably connected to the one or more seed dispensers and a seed reservoir adapted for housing cover crop seed, and (c) a control system having one or more actuators operably connected to one or more controllers, wherein at least one of the sets of soil openers and sets of seed dispensers is operably attached to a header of the combine.

    SEED METER
    2.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20230085347A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-16

    申请号:US18055571

    申请日:2022-11-15

    发明人: Derek A. Sauder

    摘要: A seed meter for an agricultural planter in which the seed disc is rotatably mounted within a seed meter housing. As the seed disc rotates, the apertures in the disc rotate along a seed aperture path through a horizontally adjacent seed pool area. The seed disc includes cavities disposed along the seed aperture path to agitate the seeds in the seed pool area. A singulator having multiple co-planar singulator surfaces is biased against the seed side surface of the seed disc.

    Particle delivery system of an agricultural row unit

    公开(公告)号:US11490558B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-08

    申请号:US16726435

    申请日:2019-12-24

    摘要: A particle delivery system of an agricultural row unit includes a shuttle track configured to be disposed adjacent to a particle metering and singulation unit, shuttles movably disposed along the shuttle track, and a track belt disposed inwardly of the shuttle track. Each shuttle is configured to receive a particle from the particle metering and singulation unit at a particle reception section of the shuttle track and release the particle toward a trench in soil at a particle deposition section of the shuttle track. The track belt includes paddles, and each paddle is configured to move a respective shuttle along a particle transfer section of the shuttle track from the particle reception section to the particle deposition section.

    SEED DELIVERY APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20210298225A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-30

    申请号:US17344193

    申请日:2021-06-10

    发明人: Ian Radtke

    摘要: An apparatus and methods for delivering seed from a metering device to a furrow. In one embodiment, a seed meter entrains seeds on a seed disc rotating toward a seed release location. A guide brush assembly guides the entrained seeds toward the seed release location, whereupon the entrained seeds are released from the seed disc into an upper end of a seed conveyor. The seed conveyor conveys the seed toward the soil and releases the seed with a rearward relative velocity.

    Conveyance belt for high speed planting of seeds

    公开(公告)号:US11129325B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-28

    申请号:US16456782

    申请日:2019-06-28

    申请人: Felton, Inc.

    摘要: An endless seed delivery belt includes an inner surface, and an undulating outer surface. The undulating outer surface defines a plurality of alternating, and regularly-spaced peaks and troughs where each peak corresponds to a flight and each space between adjacent peaks defines a cavity that is generally sized and shaped to accommodate one seed. In some implementations, the endless seed delivery belt has a seed ejector between each pair of adjacent flights.

    AGRICULTURAL METERING SYSTEM HAVING MULTIPLE SETS OF METER ROLLERS

    公开(公告)号:US20210251131A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-19

    申请号:US17245816

    申请日:2021-04-30

    摘要: An agricultural metering system includes independently controllable sets of meter rollers. Each set of meter rollers includes at least one meter roller and is configured to rotate about a respective rotational axis, and the rotational axes are generally parallel to one another and not aligned with one another. The agricultural metering system also includes meter boxes configured to receive agricultural product from a compartment of a storage tank. Each set of meter rollers is disposed within a respective meter box, and each set of meter rollers is configured to meter the agricultural product from the compartment of the storage tank. The agricultural metering system also includes distribution lines. Each distribution line is disposed downstream from a respective set of meter rollers and is configured to receive the agricultural product output from the respective set of meter rollers.

    PHOTOELECTRIC SENSOR FOR SEED DISPENSING SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20210243942A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-12

    申请号:US17173647

    申请日:2021-02-11

    申请人: TSI INCORPORATED

    摘要: A seed dispensing system is provided with a photoelectric sensor for monitoring the dispensing of seeds from a seed dispenser comprising a discharge conveyor with conveyor flights that transport seeds through the seed dispenser. The sensor outputs a signal representative of obstructions to the flow of light in an optical path of the sensor, and a computing unit is adapted to distinguish portions of the output signal that are attributable to the passage of one or more seeds from portions of the output signal that are attributable to the passage of a conveyor flight.

    Seed delivery apparatus, systems, and methods

    公开(公告)号:US11058048B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-13

    申请号:US16459153

    申请日:2019-07-01

    发明人: Ian Radtke

    摘要: An apparatus and methods for delivering seed from a metering device to a furrow. In one embodiment, a seed meter entrains and releases seed from a seed disc at a seed release location. The released seed is directed into a seed conveyor by a loading wheel. The seed conveyor conveys the seed toward the soil and releases the seed with a rearward relative velocity.