Patent ID: 6715433
Filing Date: 2004-04-06
Classification: A01C,Y10S

Abstract:
An agricultural seeding machine for planting a crop, the seeding machine comprising:a frame; a seed hopper for holding seed is mounted to the frame; a seed meter is mounted to the frame for metering seed received from the seed hopper; a furrow opener is mounted to the frame for forming a seed trench in a field into which metered seed from the seed meter is directed; a flexible rotatable drive shaft having a first coupling with a drive shaft output; a gearbox having a gear receiving portion and a flexible rotatable drive shaft receiving portion, the gear receiving portion has a gearbox output for driving the seed meter, the gearbox output defines a gearbox drive axis, the flexible rotatable drive shaft receiving portion has a second coupling for receiving the first coupling of the flexible rotatable drive shaft, the drive shaft output of the flexible rotatable drive shaft is drivingly coupled by the gearbox to the gearbox output when the first coupling is coupled to the second coupling; a gearbox restraint extends outwardly from the seed hopper for engaging the flexible rotatable drive shaft receiving portion of the gearbox preventing rotation of the gearbox about the gearbox drive axis.