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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2016
Flow International Corporation, Kent, WA (US);
Gregory Dean Butler, Clare, AU;
Jeffrey Evan Martel, Grimsby, CA;
Mohamed A. Hashish, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jean-Christophe Vidil, Redmond, WA (US);
Flow International Corporation, Kent, WA (US);
Abstract
Land cultivating systems and methods utilizing high-pressure fluid jet cutting techniques are disclosed. An example system includes a mobile unit, a traveler arrangement operably coupled to the mobile unit to ride on the surface of stubble residues as the mobile unit moves across land to be cultivated, and a fluid jet cutting head supported by the traveler arrangement. The cutting head is configured to selectively discharge a high-pressure fluid jet to make a cut through the stubble residues and underlying soil as the mobile unit moves across the land. A soil opening device is provided to form a furrow in the ground in line with the cut made by the high-pressure fluid jet, and a liquid injector nozzle is provided to discharge fertilizer or other chemical(s) into the soil.