Singulating meter

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 12096715
APP PUB NO 20230073423A1
SERIAL NO

17987464

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A singulating meter includes a seed disc with seed apertures rotates in a vertical plane through a seed reservoir. A horizontal seed tube has an inlet adjacent to the top of the seed disc and the seed apertures move along a seed aperture path toward the inlet. Pressurized air flows into the tube inlet, and through each seed aperture as it rotates upward out of the seed reservoir pushing a seed into each seed aperture which seed then moves along the seed aperture path through about 180 degrees of rotation to a release position at the top of the path where the seed is carried horizontally into the seed tube. An ejector pushes debris out of the seed apertures into the seed tube. An alignment guide moves the singulator element of the meter into the operating position where same is magnetically secured.

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BOURGAULT INDUSTRIES LTDST BRIEUX

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Crooymans, Brennan St. Brieux, CA 5 27
Hantke, Glenn St. Brieux, CA 7 35
Jagow, Scot St. Brieux, CA 30 256

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