Seedling planter
OwnerArmando P. Centofantiinventor
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A seedling planter for use for a self-propelled tiller or garden tractor comprises a transport trough for the seedlings with a row digger and seedling guide in spaced relation to the lower end of the trough, trailing ground engaging blades direct the ground around the set seedlings firmly positioning the same in the row.
Claims5
The combination of a seedling planter attachment and a ground engaging tiller, said tiller having means for tilling the ground and rearwardly and upwardly extending handles by which said tiller is guided, said seedling planter attachment comprising an inclined transport trough and means on said handles of said tiller supporting said transport trough in spaced relative parallel relation thereto, a row digger positioned forwardly of the lower end of said transport trough and rearwardly of said tiller and means attaching said row digger to said tiller, said row digger being transversely arcuately shaped to form convex exterior and concave interior surfaces and positioned with said convex exterior towards said tiller, and a pair of blades positioned in spaced side by side relation to each other and located rearwardly of said row digger and attached to said handles, said row digger being arranged to form a furrow in the ground and guide the seedlings from said transport trough into said furrow and said blades arranged to hill the ground from the furrow around the seedlings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.