Indexed seedbed tillage arrangement
AssigneeCNH Industrial America LLC
InventorDean A. Knobloch
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Abstract
An agricultural tillage implement, comprising at least one section including a plurality of attachment bars; and a plurality of indexed seedbed tillage arrangements distributed on the at least one section, each indexed seedbed tillage arrangement including a first horizontal tillage apparatus coupled to a first attachment bar; a second horizontal tillage apparatus coupled to a second attachment bar and offset in the travel direction from the first horizontal tillage apparatus; and a vertical tillage apparatus coupled to a third bar of the plurality of bars and offset in the travel direction from the first and second horizontal tillage apparatuses, positioned such that it processes soil not disturbed by the first and second horizontal tillage apparatuses.
Claims20
An agricultural tillage implement, comprising:
- at least one section including a plurality of attachment bars;
- and
- a plurality of indexed seedbed tillage arrangements distributed on the at least one section, each indexed seedbed tillage arrangement including:
- a first horizontal tillage apparatus coupled to a first attachment bar;
- a second horizontal tillage apparatus coupled to a second attachment bar and offset in the travel direction from the first horizontal tillage apparatus;
- and
- a vertical tillage apparatus coupled to a third bar of the plurality of bars and offset in the travel direction from the first and second horizontal tillage apparatuses, positioned such that it processes soil not disturbed by the first and second horizontal tillage apparatuses.
An indexed seedbed tillage arrangement of an agricultural tillage implement, the implement including at least one section including a plurality of attachment bars;
- the indexed seedbed tillage arrangement including:
- a first horizontal tillage apparatus coupled to a first attachment bar;
- a second horizontal tillage apparatus coupled to a second attachment bar and offset in the travel direction from the first horizontal tillage apparatus;
- and
- a vertical tillage apparatus coupled to a third bar of the plurality of bars and offset in the travel direction from the first and second horizontal tillage apparatuses, positioned such that it processes soil not disturbed by the first and second horizontal tillage apparatuses.
A method of tilling an agricultural field to prepare a seedbed, the method comprising:
- providing a plurality of indexed seedbed tillage arrangements of an agricultural tillage implement, the implement including at least one section including a plurality of attachment bars, each indexed seedbed tillage arrangement including:
- a first horizontal tillage apparatus coupled to a first attachment bar;
- a second horizontal tillage apparatus coupled to a second attachment bar and offset in the travel direction from the first horizontal tillage apparatus;
- and
- a vertical tillage apparatus coupled to a third bar of the plurality of bars and offset in the travel direction from the first and second horizontal tillage apparatuses, positioned such that it processes soil not disturbed by the first and second horizontal tillage apparatuses;
- and
- operating the agricultural tillage implement along at least one path of the agricultural field.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.