Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Removing opener force to reduce soil disturbance
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Application No.: US15866522Application Date: 2018-01-10
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Publication No.: US10681858B2Publication Date: 2020-06-16
- Inventor: Norbert Beaujot
- Applicant: SEEDMASTER MANUFACTURING LTD.
- Applicant Address: CA Saskatchewan
- Assignee: SEEDMASTER MANUFACTURING LTD.
- Current Assignee: SEEDMASTER MANUFACTURING LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: CA Saskatchewan
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@518bfbda
- Main IPC: A01C7/08
- IPC: A01C7/08 ; A01C7/20 ; A01C5/06 ; A01C21/00

Abstract:
An agricultural seeder has furrow opener assemblies spaced along a width of the implement frame. Each furrow opener assembly has an opener arm pivotally attached to the implement frame, and a furrow opener attached to the opener arm. A product delivery system delivers agricultural products to the furrow opener assemblies, and a product control controls the product delivery system such that agricultural products are delivered only to active furrow opener assemblies. A bias force system is operative, when activated in a transport mode, to exert an upward bias force on the active and idle furrow opener assemblies, and operative, when activated in an operating mode, to exert a downward bias force on the active furrow opener assemblies, and to exert substantially no force on the idle furrow opener assemblies.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180199505A1 REMOVING OPENER FORCE TO REDUCE SOIL DISTURBANCE Public/Granted day:2018-07-19
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