Seed firmer
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsElijah B. Garner, Jacob D. Salowitz, Kamalakannan Natarajan, Mark Underwood, Drew Whitcomb, Charles T. Graham, Dnyanesh Dhobale
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Abstract
A seed firmer for pressing seeds into soil during planting. The seed firmer includes a mount for attachment to a row unit of a planting machine. An arm defines a ground-facing surface having at least one point of contact with the ground, including a rearmost ground contact point with respect to a direction of forward travel during planting operation. The ground-facing surface has a transition section directly trailing a rearmost ground contact point, the transition section can extending upwardly from the rearmost ground contact point with a radius no less than 25 mm.
Claims9
A seed firmer for pressing seeds into soil during planting, the seed firmer comprising:
- a mount for attachment to a row unit of a planting machine;
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- an arm defining a ground-facing surface having at least one point of contact with the ground, including a rearmost ground contact point with respect to a direction of forward travel during planting operation,
- wherein the ground-facing surface has a transition section directly trailing a rearmost ground contact point, the transition section extending upwardly from the rearmost ground contact point with a radius no less than 25 mm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.