Patent ID: 9591799
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: A01B,A01C

Claim:
1. An air cart for use in an agricultural air seeding system, comprising: at least one tank for holding a material; a metering system associated with said at least one tank, said metering system being configured for metering said material from said at least one tank at an output rate and including: a sensor operatively connected to the vertical wall for sensing a parameter associated with an angular orientation of said vertical wall relative to the reference plane, said sensor providing an output signal indicative of said angular orientation; an actuator for adjusting said output rate of said metering system by displacing said trailing edge; and a controller coupled with each of said actuator and said sensor and receiving said output signal from said sensor, said controller being configured for controlling said actuator and thereby adjusting said output rate of said metering system, dependent upon said output signal.