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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 1988
Filed:
Jun. 25, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Roy J Kangas, Dodgeville, MI (US);
Edsel D Matson, Hancock, MI (US);
Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
111-3 ;
Abstract
A stick planting apparatus (10) includes a storage and singulating unit (18) and a picker/placer unit (22). Sticks (S) having at least one viable bud thereon are stored in the storage unit and are automatically singulated in that unit. Operation of the picker/placer unit is synchronized with movement of a vehicle (12) towing the units and each singulated stick is automatically removed from the storage unit and planted as the towing vehicle moves.