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Agricultural implement for forming planting rows

US5524711A · kind A · utility

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13Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateOct 24, 1994
Grant dateJun 11, 1996
Priority date
Expiry dateOct 24, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02P60/20
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

The present invention entails an agricultural implement for forming planting rows with a minimum of tillage. The implement of the present invention is designed to form a multiplicity of rows and accordingly includes a series of side-by-side row units. Each row unit includes a front colter, a ripper which follows the colter, a rotor tiller assembly disposed behind the ripper, a pair of laterally spaced soil confining panels extending between the ripper and the rotor tiller assembly, and a final following soil packer. Once the agricultural implement has traversed a certain area of the land, there is formed a multiplicity of planting rows with the area between the formed planting rows being untilled.

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