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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2014
The Board of Regents for Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK (US);
Adrian A. Koller, Pfeffikon, CH;
Randal K. Taylor, Stillwater, OK (US);
William R. Raun, Stillwater, OK (US);
THE BOARD OF REGENTS FOR OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY, Stillwater, OK (US);
Abstract
A hand-planter for singulation planting of cereal, grain, seed and other crops includes a tapered soil engagement component for striking and penetrating a soil surface. With each planter strike to the soil surface, the planter is actuated to meter a granular material product by reciprocating a drum to rotate, thereby exposing a cavity to a material hopper. As the actuation force is released, the reciprocating drum rotates in an opposite direction to its original location and drops the material that has been metered.