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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 24, 2019
Cnh Industrial America Llc, New Holland, PA (US);
Chad Michael Johnson, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Brian John Anderson, Yorkville, IL (US);
Trevor Philip Stanhope, Oak Lawn, IL (US);
Christopher Schoeny, Minooka, IL (US);
Kregg Jerome Raducha, Oak Park, IL (US);
CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);
Abstract
A particle delivery system of an agricultural row unit includes a shuttle track configured to be disposed adjacent to a particle metering and singulation unit, shuttles movably disposed along the shuttle track, and a track belt disposed inwardly of the shuttle track. Each shuttle is configured to receive a particle from the particle metering and singulation unit at a particle reception section of the shuttle track and release the particle toward a trench in soil at a particle deposition section of the shuttle track. The track belt includes paddles, and each paddle is configured to move a respective shuttle along a particle transfer section of the shuttle track from the particle reception section to the particle deposition section.