US 8,985,036 B2Granted

Soil gathering module for soil opener

AssigneeCNH Industrial Canada, Ltd.

InventorsRussell J. Memory, Martin Roberge, Jim W. Henry

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Abstract

A soil opener has a frog mount adapted to be coupled to a shank or other mounting member of a farm implement. A spreader is removably coupled to the frog mount and includes forward and rearward product delivery channels that are intended to be flow-coupled to product delivery tubes or hoses of the farm implement. A tip is removably coupled to the spreader. The leading edges of the frog mount, the spreader, and the tip, as well as the geometry between these components are such that drift is minimized even when the soil opener is pulled through the soil at higher speeds, e.g., excess of 5 mph. The soil opener may be equipped with an optional soil gathering module that gathers soil lifted by the tip and redirects the soil to a position generally rearward of the opener.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A soil opener adapted to be attached to an agricultural implement for placement of product in a furrow formed in soil, comprising:

a mount configured to be coupled to a shank of the agricultural implement, the mount having a leading edge for separating the soil as the soil opener is pulled through the soil;
a spreader coupled to a lower end of the mount, the spreader including a lower surface configured to be directed at the soil and an upper surface configured to be directed away from the soil;
a tip removably coupled to the spreader and configured to cut a furrow into the soil, and wherein the product is deposited into the furrow;
and
a soil gathering module attached to the mount at a location axially spaced along the mount from the spreader so as to be positioned above and partially overlap the upper surface of the spreader, the soil gathering module configured to gather soil lifted by the spreader and the tip and redirect the gathered soil to a position rearward of the soil opener.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.