Garden seeder
OwnerRex B. Drouhardinventor
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Abstract
A garden seeder having a seed bin; a seed wheel having a plurality of circumferentially attached seed dispensing cups; a first axle mounting the seed wheel within the seed bin for orbital movements of the seed cups through scooping and dispensing positions; a ground wheel; a second axle mounting the ground wheel upon the seed bin; a Geneva drive connecting the seed wheel to the ground wheel for translating rotation of the ground wheel to intermittent orbital motions of the seed dispensing cups through the seed scooping and seed dispensing positions; and a handle connected operatively to the seed bin.
Claims23
A seeder for planting seeds within a garden, the garden having a surface, the seeder comprising:
- (a) a seed bin having a seed storing end and having a seed dispensing end, the seed dispensing end overlying the seed storing end;
- (b) a seed wheel having a plurality of circumferentially attached seed dispensing cups;
- (c) a first axle rotatably mounting the seed wheel within the seed bin;
- the first axle facilitating orbital movements of the seed dispensing cups through seed scooping positions, and through seed dispensing positions, the seed dispensing positions overlying the seed scooping positions;
- (d) a ground wheel and a second axle rotatably mounting the ground wheel upon the seed bin, the ground wheel being positioned for rolling carriage of the seed bin over the garden's surface;
- (g) a geneva drive operatively interconnecting the seed wheel and the ground wheel, the geneva drive being adapted for, upon the rolling carriage, translating non-intermittent rotation of the ground wheel to intermittent rotation of the seed wheel, the intermittent rotation intermittently orbitally moving the seed dispensing cups through the seed scooping and seed dispensing positions;
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- (h) driving means connected operatively to the seed bin, the driving means being adapted to facilitate the rolling carriage of the seed bin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.