Kickout wheel assembly for a seed meter
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsElijah B. Garner, Beth A. Wolfs, Jerry Samuelson
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Abstract
A kickout wheel assembly for removing seeds from a seed metering member. The kickout wheel assembly includes a first kickout wheel configured to rotate to remove seeds from the seed metering member, and a second kickout wheel configured to rotate to remove seeds from the seed metering member. The second kickout wheel is journaled independently from the first kickout wheel.
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A kickout wheel assembly for a seed meter having a metering member, the metering member including a first circumferential array of apertures for picking up seeds from a seed reservoir under the influence of a pressure differential, and a second circumferential array of apertures for picking up seeds from the seed reservoir under the influence of the pressure differential, the metering member being rotatable about a rotation axis at a metering member speed, the first circumferential array of apertures being disposed at a first radial distance from the rotation axis and the second circumferential array of apertures being disposed at a second radial distance from the rotation axis, the second radial distance being different than the first radial distance, the kickout wheel assembly comprising:
- a first kickout wheel configured to remove seeds from the first circumferential array of apertures, wherein the first kickout wheel is configured to be driven by the metering member at a first kickout wheel rotational speed that is proportional to the metering member speed;
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- a second kickout wheel configured to remove seeds from the second circumferential array of apertures, wherein the second kickout wheel is configured to be driven by the metering member at a second kickout wheel rotational speed that is proportional to the metering member speed, wherein the second kickout wheel rotational speed is different than the first kickout wheel rotational speed.
A kickout wheel assembly for a seed meter having a metering member including a first circumferential array of apertures for picking up seeds from a seed reservoir under the influence of a pressure differential, and a second circumferential array of apertures for picking up seeds from the seed reservoir under the influence of the pressure differential, the kickout wheel assembly comprising:
- a first kickout wheel configured to remove seeds from the first circumferential array of apertures, wherein the first kickout wheel is journaled for rotation;
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- a second kickout wheel configured to remove seeds from the second circumferential array of apertures, wherein the second kickout wheel is journaled for rotation independently from the first kickout wheel.
A kickout wheel assembly for removing seeds from a seed metering member, the kickout wheel assembly comprising:
- a first kickout wheel configured to rotate to remove seeds from the seed metering member;
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- a second kickout wheel configured to rotate to remove seeds from the seed metering member, wherein the second kickout wheel is journaled independently from the first kickout wheel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.