Patent ID: 7273314

Claim:
A self-contained seed treater comprising, a drum having a surrounding wall and a top opening and a central discharge opening ( 56 ), a rotatable shaft mounted in the drum on a vertical axis, a spreader mounted on the shaft adjacent the top of the drum, and adapted to receive seed flowing downwardly through the top opening, and operable for throwing the seed outwardly into engagement with the surrounding wall, the spreader ( 90 ) having a bottom plate ( 92 ) which is of conical shape, an upper bowl below the spreader, and tapering downwardly and having a bottom opening, and being otherwise imperforate and secured to the surrounding wall without space between itself and the surrounding wall, whereby all the seed on the surrounding wall thrown from the spreader will flow into the upper bowl, the construction of the seed treater being such as to enable the seed in the upper bowl to flow through the bottom opening in the upper bowl and through the central discharge opening ( 56 ) of the seed treater into a receptacle, and the seed treater including power transmitting means operably connecting power means for rotating the shaft ( 68 ).