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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2003
Michael G. Kovach, Morton, IL (US);
Rickey L. Gerber, Roanoke, IL (US);
Case, LLC, Racine, WI (US);
Abstract
An agricultural tillage implement is disclosed employing a series of apparatus to perform one-pass primary tillage. A coulter is the first apparatus that works the field. These coulters cut, size and part the residue without mixing it into the seedbed. Next, a tillage shank runs a point through the compaction layer to fracture and loosen the soil, providing proper soil aggregate size and air pore space relationship throughout the shank tillage profile. Next is a pair of soil-gathering blades that capture and gather the loose soil and residue together and to create a berm of a mixture of soil and residue. The last apparatus to work the field is a rotary reel that conditions the strip of soil to give ideal seed-to-soil contact and uniform berm size.