Abstract: A planting unit for depositing fertilizer and seed in a single pass, double shoot manner includes a rotating disc that cuts a furrow in a planting surface and a trailing seed boot, having a cutting edge, that cuts a vertically and horizontally offset trench in the furrow to form a seed bed in the planting surface. The disc has a mounting frame for mounting the disc to a linkage assembly that is, in turn, coupled to a toolbar mount. The seed boot is also attached to the mounting frame. This common attachment provides a relatively short and compact device without sacrificing fertilizer and seed stratification.

Abstract: A seed treating apparatus used to inoculate and treat seeds, which consists of a portable tank, pump, valve and nozzle system. This system can be mounted on any agricultural hauling vehicle or seeding implement to apply inoculant to seeds before or during the planting process. On a seeder having a transfer duct with a feed hopper at one end for receiving seed from a supply, the spray nozzle is mounted above the duct for spraying the material into the seed as it enters the hopper.

Abstract: A cylinder 16 has a piston 19 slidable therein, to force liquid from the cylinder out through a hollow needle 18. A pair of handles 11 extend outwardly from the cylinder, substantially normal thereof. Each handle carries a lever 30 pivoted thereon. In use, movement of the piston is less than the corresponding movement of a manually operable portion 32 (FIG. 1).

Abstract: This invention relates to a deep remediation injection system for in-situ remediation of contaminated soil and ground water capable of progressive penetration both vertically and horizontally in contaminated soil and ground water having a soil penetrating lance for injecting air and oxygen and liquid with suspended biologicals into the contaminated soil as said soil penetrating lance is inserted for penetration in the soil, an air compressor for compressing air and delivering the air under pressure to the soil penetrating lance on one end, a liquid pump for pressurizing the liquid and suspended biologicals and delivering said liquid and suspended biologicals under pressure to the soil penetrating lance on one end, a gas connector control for connecting the gas compressor to the lance and for controlling the compressed gas flow, and a liquid connector means for connecting the liquid pump to the lance and controlling the pressurized liquids; and the method of developing a treatment grid both as to the depth of

Abstract: A sprinkler and root feeder valve assembly useful for directing the flow of liquid in one of two directions for use as either a sprinkler or a root feeder for plant maintenance is disclosed. The valve assembly includes a one-piece valve housing body having a central hub and two diametrically opposite arm members for receiving and transporting liquid. The central hub is adapted for receiving a valve drum which is rotatable into several positions and adapted for controlling the volume and directing the flow of liquids through the assembly.

Abstract: An applicator is illustrated for introducing a flow of chemical adjacent the roots of a plant without supplying chemical to adjacent plant material utilizing a tubular guide (A) which acts as a cover for a needle (D) which is carried by an inner tubular support (B) which carries a dispensing tube for connection to a source of pressurized chemical (F). The dispensing tube is connected through the handle (E) and a compression spring (G) is provided to urge the tubular guide (A) downwardly for acting as a guard for the needle.

Abstract: In order to place dry granular materials into the subsurface of the soil without mechanical tillage, minute charges of the material are carried by high pressure jets of liquid, such as water, down into the ground from a series of side-by-side nozzles that simultaneously fire the jets toward the ground at regular intervals as the nozzles advance along a path of travel. Instead of passing through the water pump and the sensitive jet-producing nozzles, the granular materials remain separated from the water until the jets have issued from their nozzles and are passing through a ceramic mixing chamber in which a venturi is located. During the short pauses between successive blasts from the nozzles, material is continuously fed into a collecting chamber for each nozzle to form a small charge. As the water blast takes place, the charge is automatically drawn into the venturi and carried out of the machine by the high pressure jet.

Abstract: The process serves for the loosening of soil in the subsoil and topsoil areas and for introduction of fertilizers as well as subsoil loosening and/or for soil cultivation as well as the introduction of other additives with the use of digging tools 2, 2', and 2" by which the soil is broken up. In this case, the digging edge of digging tool 2, 2', and 2" is guided in an elliptical motion and this motion is superimposed by a straight motion, i.e., the driving motion. A cycloid is therefore produced for the digging edge. The longer axis of the ellipse in this case is directed from the soil surface into the soil in this manner and exhibits an angle to the travel direction. The additive, such as, for example, fertilizers, can be blown into the fissure forming behind tool 2.

Abstract: A seed drill is provided including opposite side ground engaging support wheels journaled from opposite ends of a transverse beam of the seed drill. The longitudinal center of the beam includes a horizontal, forwardly directed towing tongue and the opposite ends of the beams include forwardly and upwardly inclined support arms from whose opposite ends the remote ends of a pair of axially aligned and spaced apart drums are journaled, the adjacent ends of the drums being journaled from the upper portion of upstanding support structure carried by the tongue a spaced distance forward of the beam. The ground engagable wheels are drivingly connected to the drums and the latter include axially spaced circumferentially extending rows of openings through which seeds may be dispensed and longitudinally spaced portions of the beam have drag-type link chain sections anchored relative thereto in registry with the axially spaced circumferential rows of openings formed in the drums.

Abstract: An applicator for particulate carpet-cleaning compositions having a cylindrical body formed of relatively rotatable inner and outer concentric cylindrical members in 360.degree. frictional nested engagement, separately attached non-rotatably to opposite wheel members of greater diameter than the body, and having dispensing apertures in cylinder which may be closed by the other depending on relative rotational positions. The cylindrical members are relatively rotatable very easily be opposed manual rotation of the wheels to dispensing positions, a closed position, and a filling position in which major filling openings in the cylindrical members are aligned. The cylindrical members are indexed to exact relative positions for accurate dispensing, spill-free filling and air-tight closure.

Abstract: In a manual sowing apparatus a cell wheel 132 is provided which is drivable by a wheel disk 116 directly or via a reduction gear and which conveys the grain seeds from a receiving chamber via pockets disposed in the wheel to a discharge station. A plurality of cell wheels are associated with each apparatus and can be fixed via a bayonet coupling on a support drum 72. Cell wheels which are not in use can be accommodated in a receiver 104. A resilient scraper is disposed at the discharge end of the receiving chamber and prevents jamming of the cell wheel by scraping off grains when they are too large or when there are too many in a pocket, while grains projecting a slight extent can pass beneath the scraper.

Abstract: A row seed planter for planting seeds in a prepared furrow in home gardens having a ground-engaging wheel-like seed reservoir and dispenser rotatable subassembly rotatably journaled on the lower end of an elongated handle member adapted to be hand-grasped near an upper end thereof and extend upwardly and rearwardly from the rotatable subassembly. The rotatable subassembly includes a rigid flat annular ground-engaging disc member having a large diameter center hole therethrough, a seed housing shell structure defining a seed chamber of predetermined capacity communicating with the center hole, a seed elevating disc fixed to the opposite side of the ground-engaging disc member from the seed chamber forming an opposite side closure wall for the center hole, and a single apertured seed discharge disc plate mounted closely adjacent the seed elevating disc and restrained against rotation relative to the handle member.

Abstract: An apparatus for continuously metering seeds onto a seedbed and simultaneously pressing the seeds into the soil. The seed planting apparatus includes a drum adapted to be moved in rolling contact across the seedbed, and which transports seeds on its peripheral wall from a hopper to the seedbed. The seeds are retained against apertures in the peripheral wall by means of a vacuum transmitted to the apertures through manifolds within the drum that are interconnected with a vacuum pump by means of individual hoses. A cam interrupts the vacuum by compressing the hoses when the seed-bearing apertures contact the seedbed, thereby releasing the seeds and pressing them into the soil. The seeds are preferably placed on the seedbed in a uniformly spaced array predetermined by the uniform alignment and spacing of the apertures on the wall of the drum.

Abstract: A cane dipper-planter where the pre-cut cane setts are conveyed from a supply hopper to a rotary drum which contains the treatment liquid and a series of lifting members around its internal wall which lift the treated setts out of the liquid and discharges them via an outlet chute to the furrow for planting.

Abstract: A root feeder wherein a closed housing defining a mixing chamber has a restricted water feed inlet and a fertilizer feed inlet and a plurality of tines communicating with the chamber and extending outwardly therefrom, the tines having outlet ports at their outboard ends and having open inboard ends so disposed relative to the mixing chamber as to insure a thorough mixing within the chamber due to a generated churning of the water and fertilizer before charge into the tines and feed from the ports thereof to the soil in which the root feeder is embedded.

Abstract: A hand-propelled cultivator implement having a frame with a wheel journaled on the front of the frame for rollingly supporting the implement as it is moved over the ground. A cage is provided on the frame for rigidly mounting a selected cultivating tool on the frame in a cultivating position for cultivating the soil as the cultivator is moved over the ground and for permitting quick change of one cultivating tool for another. The cultivating tool mounting arrangement further includes a locking member manually movable from a retracted position in which a cultivating tool may be removed from its cage and replaced by another tool and a locking position in which the locking member positively retains the cultivating tool within the cage. In another embodiment, a plurality of tools are rigidly mounted on a rotatable turret, the latter being positively retained in any selected one of a plurality of positions by a movable locking member.