PLANTER Russian patent published in 1996 - IPC

FIELD: agricultural engineering. SUBSTANCE: planter has frame, supporting drive wheels, draft bar beam, long and short draftbars hinge-mounted on brackets installed for movement along draftbar beam, double disk openers with rods and springs secured on hollow square shaft with opener depth adjuster, seed tubes, seed box with planting units in its lower part and planting unit shaft drive mechanism, and agitator placed in seed box. Placed before double-disk openers for rotation in longitudinally vertical planes are disk knives whose axles are secured by means of levers on hinge brackets of long and short draftbars. Mounted on axles of rotation of disk knives is mechanism to provide displacement of knives along axles; double-arm lever is mounted on hinge joint of bracket of short or long draftbar and is connected by second arm with each of guides of disk knife travel adjuster mechanism, the latter bring furnished with power regulator. EFFECT: enhanced reliability of operation. 5 cl, 9 dwg