Patent ID: 6205937
Filing Date: 2001-03-27
Classification: A01B

Abstract:
In an agricultural device for transporting planting units having containers for storing and dispensing material including tillage attachments through a field at different spacings by a motored vehicle, a tongue in communication with a motored vehicle extending rearwardly of the vehicle in a direction parallel to the direction of travel of the vehicle, and a first toolbar having a longitudinal axis extending perpendicularly to said tongue and carrying a plurality of planting units thereon at fixed intervals, the improvement comprising: a second toolbar spaced away and separate from said first toolbar and having a longitudinal axis extending perpendicularly to said tongue and carrying a plurality of planting units thereon at fixed intervals, a motor mechanism in communication with said second toolbar for moving said second toolbar between a first position wherein said first and said second toolbars are positioned with their longitudinal axes generally colinear and a second position wherein said second toolbar is spaced from said first toolbar and the longitudinal axes of the first and second toolbars are parallel, said motor mechanism moving said second toolbar upwardly and inwardly from the first position to the second position, said second toolbar in the second position thereof positioning the planting units carried thereon intermediate the planting units carried on said first toolbar, whereby to provide an agricultural device capable of positioning the planting units carried thereby in at least two different spacings depending upon whether said second toolbar is in the first or the second positions thereof.