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AssigneeDeere & Company, a Delaware corporation
InventorsBradley John Meyer, Donald Keith Landphair
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A seeding machine is provided with banks of individual seed hoppers for directing seed to auxiliary seed hoppers located on individual planting units. The individual seed hoppers of each bank are provided with adjoining walls. The adjoining walls have notches so that seed in one individual seed hopper can flow into an adjoining individual seed hopper. A portion of the planting units can be disabled by placing them in a non-working position. The individual seed hoppers supplying seed to the disabled planting units are provided with removable baffles. Each removable baffle is provided with a downwardly extending leg that cooperates with the notches to prevent seed in an active individual hopper from entering an inactive individual hopper.
A seeding machine comprising:
A removable baffle for a bank of individual seed hoppers having adjoining walls with notches, the removable baffle comprising:
A bank of individual seed hoppers for a seeding machine comprising a plurality of individual seed hoppers having adjoining walls with notches allowing seed to pass between individual hoppers, the bank of individual hoppers have an open top that is covered by a lid for loading seed through the open top to all of the individual hoppers, each individual hopper is provided with an outlet for directing seed to a planting unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.