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AssigneeCNH Industrial America LLC
InventorsMartin J. Roberge, Travis L. Harnetiaux, Chad M. Johnson, Marvin A. Prickel, Frank C. Legner, III
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A row crop planter has a pneumatic system for conveying seeds to individual row units employing three-way splitters above certain master row units for supplying seed to each master row unit and a pair of associated slave row units. Each three-row splitter has an upper inlet chamber of annular shape with an offset inlet coupled to a conveying hose for receiving an air entrained seed flow, and an annular passageway extending downwardly from the inlet chamber to an outlet for delivering seeds to the master unit below. A pair of laterally extending slave outlet conduits extend obliquely upward and each has a jumper hose connecting with an adjacent slave unit. The flow circulating within the annular region allows seeds to fall downwardly and air to spiral upwardly into a supplemental air conduit. An air bypass passageway conveys air flow from the supplemental air conduit toward the slave outlet conduits.
An agricultural implement for distributing an agricultural product having at least one centralized source of product and a plurality of spaced apart product dispensing locations, a pneumatic system for transporting product from the source to the dispensing locations including a number of product conveying hoses extending from the source to certain ones of the dispensing locations, the certain ones of dispensing locations each including a three-way flow splitter for supplying product to the certain dispensing location and to two additional dispensing locations.
A row crop planter having at least one seed hopper, a plurality of laterally spaced apart row units, and a pneumatic seed distribution system for delivering seeds from the hopper to the row units, certain ones of the row units each comprising a master row unit having an associated pair of slave row units, each master row unit having a three-way splitter supported above the row unit for supplying seed directly to the master unit below and to the associated pair of slave units.
A flow splitter for supplying product to individual row units of a row crop planter comprising:
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