Patent ID: 9591798
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: A01C

Claim:
1. A distributing unit for granular material comprising a housing with at least one inlet opening for the conveyance of granular material and an outlet opening and a rotating conveying device having at least one rotating conveying element extending approximately axially to an inner circumferential surface of the housing for taking hold of a plurality of grains of the granular material, the grains being held by centrifugal forces on the inner circumferential surface of the housing are crowded together there and are aligned against each other and in a line or in a row at an angle which corresponds to an angular position between the inner circumferential surface and the conveying element, with the result that only a single grain of the granular material at the end of this alignment runs in a predefined path along the inner circumferential surface and leaves the outlet opening approximately tangentially to the inner circumferential surface; wherein the rotating conveying device has at least one radial free space between a shaft of the rotating conveying device and the conveying element through which excess grains carried along by the conveying element may pass so that an approximately linear grain alignment can be formed on the conveying element.