Patent ID: 6425725
Filing Date: 2002-07-30
Classification: B60P

Abstract:
A seed handling apparatus for mounting to a vehicle having a tiltable bed tiltable from horizontal to an angle comprising a frame adapted to be attached horizontally onto said bed of said vehicle for holding seed containers on the bed of said vehicle, said seed containers being adapted to carry seed and having bottoms with openings therein for emptying seed from said containers with means to open and close said container openings;said frame having opposing outer side members and a rear member with said members forming a center opening, one of said members having an openable closure that may be opened to receive said containers within the confines of the frame with said containing projecting upward through the center opening, means on said frame members to secure said frame members to the bed of the vehicle, means on some of said frame members to hold said containers to the bed and frame when said containers are mounted on said bed within said frame, guideway means in said frame below the bottoms of said containers when mounted within th frame to the bed to receive seed from the openings in the bottoms of the containers, said rear member of said frame having an opening means adjacent guideway means, means on said frame to receive an auger having remote ends with one of said ends adjacent the opening means in the rear member of the frame; whereby the containers, upon being mounted to the bed of the vehicle within the frame may be moved by the vehicle to a seed drill, and the bed of the vehicle tilted rearward at an angle to horizontal to tilt the frame, the container, and the guideway means rearward at an angle from horizontal toward the opening means in the rear member, so that the openings in the bottoms of the containers, being opened, will cause seed from the containers to flow by gravity out the bottoms of the containers into and along the guideway means and through the opening means in the rear member of the frame to the one end of the auger, and the auger may be operated to auger seed received at the one end of the auger to the other end of the auger with the other end of the auger positioned at the seed drill to deliver the seed to the seed drill.