Patent ID: 9655297
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: A01B,A01C

Claim:
1. A scraper body adapted to be attached to a furrow opener assembly, the furrow opener assembly comprising a disc rotatably mounted on an arm and oriented at a horizontal angle to an operating travel direction such that a leading face of the disc pushes soil laterally to create a disc furrow in a soil surface, the disc having a trailing face opposite the leading face, the scraper body comprising; an attachment body portion adapted to be attached to the arm of the furrow opener assembly such that a forward scraping edge of the scraper body is located to scrape soil from the trailing face of the disc; a wing member extending from a lower rear portion of the scraper body, the wing member comprising a top wing member edge oriented, when the scraper body is attached to the arm, in alignment with the disc furrow and in alignment with the operating travel direction; and right and left wings extending downward and outward from the top wing member edge to bottom wing edges located above a bottom edge of the disc such that in operation the wings push soil to corresponding right and left sides of the disc furrow to create right and left wing furrows; a first feed tube oriented to direct a first agricultural product into each wing furrow and a second feed tube oriented to direct a second agricultural product into the disc furrow; wherein top wing edges of the right and left wings extend outward and rearward from a rear end of the top wing member edge such that an opening is formed between the top wing edges of the right and left wings, and wherein the first feed tube directs the first agricultural product into the opening and a bottom end of the first feed tube substantially seals the opening, and a deflector with sides sloping downward and outward from a top edge thereof that extends rearward from the top wing member edge along a middle of the opening, the deflector operative to deflect the first agricultural product flowing from the first feed tube substantially equally into the right and left wing furrows.