GB428709A - Improvements in seed sowers and the like - Google Patents

Abstract

428,709. Distributers for seeds &c. WAKEHAM, G. W., Werribee, Victoria, Australia. Jan. 3, 1934, No. 260. [Class 6 (i)] [See also Group II] Appliance for sowing or delivering seeds, &c., are provided with interchangeable rotary seed-conveying rims or wheels mounted in containers so as to raise seeds one or more at a time to an elevated outlet, the rims being set at an adjustable inclination and being provided with spaced edge recesses each having an entrance space and an outlet space or pocket. The elongated outlet A<1> is at the upper part of the lower end of the inclined container A, and has one end sloped to facilitate escape of large beans &c. It may be partly closed by a removable plate A<3>, or may be adjustable by means of an apertured coverplate and a movable shutter. The inclined seed wheel B is mounted on a spindle G driven by chain and bevel gearing. It is provided with interchangeable rims, such as shown in Figs. 4, 8, 14, having seed-receiving recesses in the rims provided with relatively large inlets S<2>, T<1>, Z and small outlets or set-back seed pockets S'. The rims raise the seeds to the outlet A<1> and drop them into a shoot P ending in a planting tube R. An adjustable tongue may be mounted in the container to engage the rims and expel the seeds. The container A is pivoted and its inclination is adjustable by means of a handle L. The inclination may be indicated by a loosely suspended plumb plate K and a pointer, k<1>, which may be bolted together when desired. Springs a, b may be provided in the recesses to yield when extra large seeds enter. They carry shaped parts a', a<2>, b<1>, b<2> as shown.