Patent ID: 8015933
Filing Date: 2011-09-13
Classification: A01C

Abstract:
1. A furrowing and planting apparatus for use with an agricultural implement and having a frame, the apparatus comprising: a disc mount configured to be coupled to the frame; a rotatable disc coupled to the disc mount and angled relative to a line of travel of the agricultural implement, the disc configured to cut a furrow in a planting surface to define a fertilizer trench; a fertilizer source including a fertilizer tube mounted to the disc mount and configured to deposit fertilizer into the fertilizer trench formed in the furrow; a scraper offset from the rotatable disc; a seed boot coupled to the disc mount rearward of the fertilizer tube and the rotatable disc, the seed boot including a hollow tubular member through which seed is passed and deposited onto the planting surface, and a stationary cutting edge configured to cut a ledge into the furrow onto which seed is deposited; wherein the seed boot is mounted separately and to a rear side of the scraper; and a deflector mounted to a rearward edge of the seed boot and configured to reduce the ingress of soil into the hollow tubular member of the seed boot.