Planting unit for a seeding machine having a seed meter and seed delivery system
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsElijah B. Garner, Lee E. Zumdome, Nathan A. Mariman, Michael E. Friestad
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Abstract
A planting unit for a seeding machine having a frame member and a seed meter mounted thereto. The seed meter has a housing and a metering member rotatably mounted therein. The metering member has a sidewall with an inner surface and an outer surface with a rim portion of the sidewall adjacent an outer edge of the sidewall. The inner surface of the side wall and the housing form a trough at a bottom portion of the metering member to hold a seed pool. A mechanical seed delivery system takes seed from the metering member and moves seed to a discharge location adjacent a seed furrow formed in soil beneath the seeding machine.
Claims8
A planting unit for a seeding machine comprising:
- a seed meter having a metering member mounted for rotation, the metering member having a sidewall extending to an outer edge, the sidewall having inner and outer surfaces, a rim portion of the sidewall adjacent the outer edge having apertures extending through the sidewall for adhering seed to the inner surface of the metering member to sequentially move individual seeds to a release position wherein seed adhered to the metering member are moving in a first direction at the release position;
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- a mechanical seed delivery system having a conveyor member, the conveyor member receiving seed from the metering member at the release position, moving seed in a second direction substantially cross-wise to the first direction, and carrying seed to a discharge location adjacent a seed furrow formed in soil beneath the seeding machine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.