Process and device for treating seeds

US6745512B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• UBT Ingenieurbüro GmbH Quedlinburg · DE

Inventors

• Siegfried Panzer · Dresden, DE
• Klaus Gaber · Dresden, DE
• Petra Müller · Kleinmachnow, DE
• Marga Jahn · Kleinmachnow, DE
• Joachim Pflaumbaum · Ahrensfelde, DE
• Friederun Scholze · Quedlinburg, DE
• Manfred Lange · Magdeburg, DE
• Reiner Fischer · Quedlinburg, DE
• Rainer Muller · Penzberg, DE
• Günter Motte · Potsdam, DE
• Michael Leja · Quedlinburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 31, 1992
• Grant date: Jun 8, 2004
• Expiry date: Jul 31, 2012

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G21K5/04
• WIPO field: Environmental technology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Process and device for treating seeds in order to combat harmful organisms. According to the invention, in an initial stage of the process, the seeds are separated and distributed evenly in a free-fall process, subjected in a vacuum to irradiation by low energy electron beams and then immediately treated with fungicides and/or microbial antagonists or metabolic products and spores thereof and/or synergists.