Patent ID: 7555990
Filing Date: 2009-07-07
Classification: A01C,Y02P,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An agricultural implement for injecting at least one type of particulate material namely seed, fertilizer, or inoculant into soil, adapted to travel over an area of ground having both seeded portions which have had said particulate material injected therein and unseeded portions of ground which have not had said particulate material injected therein, and to inject said particulate material only into said unseeded portions of ground, comprising; a plurality of soil-engaging members and associated raising means, each raising means when actuated adapted to raise an associated soil-engaging member from a lowered operating position where said soil-engaging member engages soil to a raised inoperative position; a plurality of material-dispensing means for receiving said particulate material and dispensing said particulate material into furrows created by said soil-engaging members; a metering means for dispensing said particulate material at a metered rate; a distribution manifold, having: said metering means dispensing said particulate material to said distribution manifold at said metered rate proportional to a rate of travel of said implement over the ground.