Patent ID: 7549383

Claim:
A system to reduce vertical acceleration experienced by seed meters of an agricultural planter during planting operations, said system comprising: in an agricultural planter having a plurality of spaced row units, each row unit mounted to a transverse toolbar of the planter main frame independently vertically movable relative to said transverse toolbar, each row unit having a lower bracket operably supporting a furrow opening assembly and a rearwardly extending upper support member disposed above said lower bracket and operably supporting a seed meter; a suspension system for each of said row units, said suspension system disposed to operably vertically support said upper support member vertically movable independently of said lower bracket of each of said row units; whereby each of said spaced row units is vertically independently movable relative to said transverse toolbar and each of said upper support members is vertically independently movable relative to said lower brackets of each of said spaced row units.