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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2009
Gregory W. Arnett, Solomon, KS (US);
Thomas J. Evans, Salina, KS (US);
Gregory W. Arnett, Solomon, KS (US);
Thomas J. Evans, Salina, KS (US);
Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc., Salina, KS (US);
Abstract
A seed furrow closing wheel has a generally dish-shaped body defined by a central portion and a notched outer flange portion that circumscribes the central portion and projects obliquely outwardly from the plane thereof. The notched flange portion is configured to present a series of circumferentially spaced, non-radial, obliquely projecting teeth that function to fragment and squeeze together opposite sidewalls of the seed furrow when a pair of the wheels are rolled along opposite sides of the furrow outboard of the furrow itself, crumbling the sidewalls and covering the seeds.