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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 1991
Filed:
May. 25, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Harry C Deckler, Williamsburg, IA (US);
Assignee:
Kinze Manufacturing, Inc., Williamsburg, IA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
221254 ; 221263 ; 221185 ; 221251 ; 111 77 ; 111184 ;
Abstract
A seed meter for a row crop planter unit having a seed disc rotating in a vertical plane includes improvements for seating individual seeds in seed cells on the periphery of the seed disc as the seed disc rotates through the seed reservoir. The improvements also include a barrier brush for preventing seeds from entering the delivery tube directly from the reservoir, and a brush holder which limits the effective width of a peripheral retainer brush so that the retainer brush cannot retain two seeds simultaneously in the same seed cell.