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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 1976
Filed:
Oct. 23, 1974
Philip B Knapp, Lynbrook, NY (US);
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to apparatus for automatically fabricating environmental seed cells, e.g. tablets incorporating two or more layers of material which will protect the seed during transportation and facilitate its growth after the same is planted, the apparatus including a tableting machine for feeding the environmental surround material into compression mold cavities, a singulator mechanism whereby individual seeds are separated from a bulk supply, and transfer mechanism for receiving separated seeds from the singulator and depositing them in the molds of the tableting machine. After loading, the aggregate comprising the environmental material and seed are subjected to compression, to produce the finished environmental seed cell.