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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2020
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Elijah B. Garner, Bettendorf, IA (US);
Stanley R. Borkgren, Geneseo, IL (US);
Dnyanesh Dhobale, Pune, IN;
Beth A. Wolfs, Tiffin, IA (US);
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
A seed meter for metering a plurality of seeds includes a seed meter housing defining a seed inlet, a seed outlet, and a chamber therebetween, a hub rotatably mounted to the seed meter housing about a rotational axis and extending from a first end positioned within the chamber of the seed meter housing to a second end positioned outside of the seed meter housing, a metering element mounted to the hub within the chamber, a plurality of drain apertures located in the seed meter housing adjacent to the hub, and a handle mounted to the second end of the hub, the handle extends over the plurality of drain apertures in an axial direction parallel to the rotational axis of the hub.