SEED-TAPE MAKING MACHINE Russian patent published in 1998 - IPC

FIELD: equipment for making seed tapes for small farms and enterprises. SUBSTANCE: machine has device for mounting and unwinding strip material rolls, seed meter, tape supplying device and drive. Seed meter is mounted on rocking spring-biased bracket and kinematically connected with tape supplying device. Glue applying device is formed as spring-loaded glue bath mounted for movement on discharge pipes of seed meters which are in contact with strip material. Glue bath has stamps with through annular cavity. When stamps are in their lower position, they are in contact with rubberized supporting plate, whose right half is positioned at higher level than its left half and is spring-loaded in vertical plane. EFFECT: increased efficiency, simplified construction and enhanced reliability in operation. 5 dwg