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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 24, 1998
Cornelis Johannes Gerardus Bom, Rozenburg, NL;
Adrianus Petrus Maria Brabander, Naaldwijk, NL;
Maasland N.V., Maasland, NL;
Abstract
Disclosed is a cultivator mounted to roll about a horizontal axis transverse to the direction of travel of the machine in combination with a hopper. The cultivator and hopper are mounted on a frame which is adapted to be connected to a three-point hitch of a tractor. The cultivator is connected to the frame under and behind the hopper and by a pivotal shaft which interconnects bearings confined fore and aft by U-profiles. The cutivator is thus tiltable within limits relative to the frame and hopper and is also turnable within limits so that the cultivator turns with the tractor. It also provides support for the hopper. A centrifugal air pump is mounted on the hopper which, via a pair of venturi-type devices, draw in granular material, such as seed, from the hopper for distributing same on the soil, the hopper having a pair of metering devices which meter granular material received by the venturi-devices. The venturi-type devices are mounted at the bottom of the metering devices to be hingeably or slidably removable so that granular material can be collected in buckets or the like directly from the metering devices to ascertain the rate that granular material is being dispensed by the metering devices.