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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2023
Kinze Manufacturing, Inc., Williamsburg, IA (US);
Brad Kruse, Williamsburg, IA (US);
Matthew Wilhelmi, Williamsburg, IA (US);
Stephen Eckert, Williamsburg, IA (US);
Kinze Manufacturing, Inc., Williamsburg, IA (US);
Abstract
An agricultural planting implement uses an air seed meter to meter and singulate seeds before directing them towards the field for planting. The air seed meter includes a seed disc that interacts with the seed to aid in planting the seeds at the desired manner so as to provide best spacing between subsequent seeds. To aid the metering and singulation of the seeds, the seed disc includes ramps positioned generally adjacent seed cell apertures. The ramps interact with tufts of a brush singulator to aid in orienting the seed relative to the seed cell aperture to position the seed at the cell and to mitigate multiple seeds from collecting at one or more of the seed cell apertures.