Air entrainment device for seed delivery
AssigneeKinze Manufacturing, Inc.
InventorsMathew Wilhelmi, Kenneth E. Shoup, Daniel Koop
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Abstract
A seed delivery device including a frame defining at least one seed chamber. The frame includes a sidewall and an air permeable floor. Seed can be received and deposited on the air permeable floor through an input port. An air input channel is utilized to introduce an air stream into the seed chamber and direct it through the air permeable floor such that seed is lifted from the air permeable floor to an outlet port. An air bypass channel is configured to separate the air stream into a first stream that is directed through the air permeable floor and a second stream that is directed through the bypass channel and recombined with the first stream, at a point prior to the output port.
Claims15
A seed delivery device, comprising:
- a frame defining a seed chamber having an air permeable surface, wherein the seed chamber includes at least one sidewall;
- a seed input port through which seed is received into the seed chamber;
- an air input channel through which flowing air is input into the seed chamber;
- an outlet port;
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- an air bypass channel coupled to the air input channel and the outlet port;
- wherein the air bypass channel and the air input channel are configured such that the flowing air is separated into a first air stream that enters the seed chamber where the first stream of air agitates and mixes with seed such that the seed is directed to the outlet port and a second air stream that is directed through the bypass channel and is recombined with the first air stream at a point prior to the outlet port;
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- wherein the first air stream is directed through the air permeable surface to agitate and mix the seed.
A seed delivery device, comprising:
- a frame defining a seed chamber having an air permeable floor therein, wherein the seed chamber includes at least one sidewall;
- a seed input port through which seed is received into the seed chamber;
- an air input channel through which flowing air is input into the seed chamber;
- an outlet port;
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- an air bypass channel coupled to the air input channel and the outlet port;
- wherein the air bypass channel and the air input channel are configured such that the flowing air is separated into a first air stream that enters the seed chamber where the first stream of air agitates and mixes with seed such that the seed is directed to the outlet port and a second air stream that is directed through the bypass channel and is recombined with the first air stream at a point prior to the outlet port;
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- wherein the first air stream is directed through the air permeable floor to agitate and mix the seed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.