PLANTING UNIT OF SOWING MACHINE OF PRECISION SEEDING Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC A01C7/14 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: planting unit comprises a seed hopper, a drive drum with seed channels, a device of seeds output. In the drive drum the through holes are made at an angle of 60°-75° to its axis, in which the seed channels are located in the form of pipes which inner diameter is 2-3 times greater than the maximum size of the seeds. At the ends of the seed channels the removable intakes are made in the form of scoops having a shape of quarter of hollow torus.

EFFECT: invention with its relatively simple design enables to provide increased accuracy of metering seeds of different agricultural crops having a rounded shape.

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