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US 12,317,770 B2Granted
Transplanter
AssigneeSubversive Tools Inc.
InventorsCarson McNeal, Conor Crickmore
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Abstract
A transplanter including a frame structure that is configured to support a tray, an operating handle structure, and a base structure including a chute. The frame structure can include a furrower to from a furrow in soil and the transplanter can also include a furrow closing structure configured to close the furrow at a location beyond an end of the chute. The operating handle structure can enable one or more attributes of the operating handle to be selectively reconfigured. The base structure can be fabricated from one or more injection molded parts.
Claims20
A transplanter comprising:
- a guide wheel structure including a set of guide wheels;
- a frame structure including a longitudinal support structure and a set of frames configured for supporting a tray including a chain of paper pots including a plurality of seedlings;
- an operating handle structure connected to at least one of:
- the guide wheel structure or a first end of the longitudinal support structure, the operating handle structure including:
- a fixed extension attached to the frame structure;
- an adjustable extension configured to be attached to the fixed extension, wherein at least one of:
- an angle between the fixed extension and the adjustable extension or a length of the adjustable extension extending from an end of the fixed extension, is selectively adjustable;
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- a grip for pulling the transplanter attached to the adjustable extension;
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- a base structure connected to the longitudinal support structure and extending beyond a second end of the longitudinal support structure, the base structure including a back end, a funnel-like shaped back portion, and a chute, wherein the tray is supported above the back end and the base structure is configured to guide the chain of paper pots from the tray along the funnel-like shaped back portion to the chute and off the transplanter as the transplanter is pulled by a user to plant a single row of the seedlings in a field, and wherein the base structure is fabricated from at least one injection molded part.
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A transplanter comprising:
- a guide wheel structure including a set of guide wheels, wherein the set of guide wheels includes two guide wheels configured to be selectively configured with any one of a plurality of different spacings there between, wherein the plurality of different spacings between the two guide wheels includes at least two preconfigured spacings;
- a frame structure including:
- a longitudinal support structure;
- a set of frames configured for supporting a tray including a chain of paper pots including a plurality of seedlings;
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- a furrower configured to form a furrow in soil;
- an operating handle structure connected to at least one of:
- the guide wheel structure or a first end of the longitudinal support structure;
- a base structure including a back end, a funnel-like shaped back portion, and a chute extending from the funnel-like shaped back portion, wherein the tray is supported above the back end and the base structure is configured to guide the chain of paper pots from the tray along the funnel-like shaped back portion to the chute and off the transplanter into the furrow as the transplanter is pulled by a user;
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- a furrow closing structure configured for closing the furrow, wherein the furrow closing structure is mounted to the base structure at a location beyond an end of the chute, and wherein the transplanter enables selection of any one of a plurality of different spacings for the furrow closing structure.
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A transplanter comprising:
- a guide wheel structure including a set of guide wheels, wherein the set of guide wheels includes two guide wheels configured to be selectively configured with any one of at least two preconfigured spacings there between;
- a frame structure including:
- a longitudinal support structure;
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- a set of frames configured for supporting a tray including a chain of paper pots including a plurality of seedlings;
- an operating handle structure connected to at least one of:
- the guide wheel structure or a first end of the longitudinal support structure;
- a base structure including a back end, a funnel-like shaped back portion, and a chute, wherein the tray is supported above the back end and the base structure is configured to guide the chain of paper pots from the tray along the funnel-like shaped back portion to the chute and off the transplanter as the transplanter is pulled by a user;
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- a furrow closing structure configured to push soil onto the paper pots as the transplanter is pulled by a user, wherein the furrow closing structure is mounted to the base structure at a location beyond an end of the chute, and wherein the transplanter enables selection of any one of a plurality of different spacings for the furrow closing structure.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.