Patent ID: 9192095
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: A01B,A01C

Abstract:
1. A fertilizer knife, comprising: (a) a knife blank having an upper portion and a lower portion, the upper portion having bolt holes for receiving bolts common to the bolt holes of a shank of a multi-point fertilizer implement, the lower portion of the knife blank having a leading edge and a trailing edge, (b) a knife point welded to the leading edge of the lower portion of the knife blank, the knife point having a leading edge portion for braking and cutting through soil, and, (c) a tube receiving portion fixed to the trailing edge of the lower portion of the knife blank, the tube receiving portion having a tube channel operable to securely receive a flexible polymer fertilizer tube, the tube receiving portion fashioned to register with the flexible polymer fertilizer tube such that the flexible polymer fertilizer tube is able to be frictionally inserted into the tube receiving portion such that the flexible polymer fertilizer tube is retained in the tube receiving portion, the tube receiving portion presenting at least one opening at a lower end thereof to allow liquid fertilizer to escape from the flexible polymer fertilizer tube.