Metering system for an agricultural system
AssigneeCNH Industrial America LLC
InventorJohn Henry Posselius
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Abstract
A metering system for an agricultural system includes a singulator. The singulator includes a hopper configured to provide a flow of plantlet casings from a storage tank of the agricultural system, a pair of counter-rotating rods configured to receive the plantlet casings from the hopper at a feed rate, where the pair of counter-rotating rods are spaced apart from one another to form a gap, and where the gap is configured to direct the plantlet casings from a first end of the pair of counter-rotating rods to a second end of the pair of counter-rotating rods, and a drive assembly configured to drive rotation of the pair of counter-rotating rods.
Claims20
A metering system for an agricultural system, comprising:
- a singulator, comprising:
- a hopper configured to provide a flow of plantlet casings from a storage tank of the agricultural system;
- a pair of counter-rotating rods configured to receive the plantlet casings from the hopper at a feed rate, wherein the pair of counter-rotating rods are spaced apart from one another to form a gap, and wherein the gap is configured to direct the plantlet casings from a first end of the pair of counter-rotating rods to a second end of the pair of counter-rotating rods;
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- a drive assembly configured to drive rotation of the pair of counter-rotating rods.
A metering system for an agricultural system, comprising:
- a singulator, comprising:
- a pair of counter-rotating rods configured to receive plantlet casings from a storage tank of the agricultural system at a feed rate, wherein the pair of counter-rotating rods are spaced apart from one another to form a gap, and wherein the gap is configured to direct the plantlet casings from a first end of the pair of counter-rotating rods to a second end of the pair of counter-rotating rods;
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- a drive assembly configured to drive rotation of the pair of counter-rotating rods;
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- an inductor, comprising:
- a receiving portion configured to receive the plantlet casings from the second end of the counter-rotating rods of the singulator;
- a conduit coupled to the receiving portion and configured to receive the plantlet casings from the receiving portion, wherein the conduit is configured to convey the plantlet casings to at least one row unit;
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- an air source fluidly coupled to the conduit and configured to provide an air flow through the conduit to convey the plantlet casings to the at least one row unit.
A metering system for an agricultural system, comprising:
- a singulator, comprising:
- a plurality of pairs of counter-rotating rods configured to receive plantlet casings from a storage tank of the agricultural system at a feed rate, wherein each pair of counter-rotating rods of the plurality of pairs of counter-rotating rods is spaced apart from one another to form a gap, and wherein the gap is configured to direct the plantlet casings from a first end of the plurality of pairs of counter-rotating rods to a second end of the plurality of pairs of counter-rotating rods;
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- a drive assembly configured to drive rotation of at least one pair of counter-rotating rods of the plurality of pairs of counter-rotating rods.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.