RIDGING FERTILIZER APPLICATOR

• Main Authors: SAKUMA DAISUKE, NINOMIYA KOJI, ISHIMARU MASAKUNI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 29.11.2012
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION ORPROCESSING OF GOODS; FERTILISING; FISHING; FORESTRY; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; PARTS, DETAILS, OR ACCESSORIES OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES ORIMPLEMENTS, IN GENERAL; PLANTING; SOIL WORKING IN AGRICULTURE OR FORESTRY; SOWING; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINSTCLIMATE CHANGE; TRAPPING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To scatter an application agent nearly uniformly on a cross-section of a ridge in a partial tilling fertilization.SOLUTION: A tilling rotary 6 and a ridge former 7 to receive tilled soil and form a ridge are attached at the back of a tractor body 1. A plurality of tilling tines 23, 23, ... and a pair of disks 25, 25 corresponding to the width of the ridge formed by the ridge former 7 are attached to a tilling shaft 15 of the tilling rotary 6, and a powdery or granular application agent delivered between or in front of the oppositely placed disks 25, 25 is stirred together with soil. The ridging fertilizer applicator having the construction is provided with an interdisk diffusion means K for diffusing the powdery or granular agent in the lateral direction of the ridge formed by the ridge former 7 and between the pair of disks 25, 25, and the diffusion amount is set to be different in the lateral direction to achieve nearly uniform application of fertilizer or pesticide in the lateral direction between the disks 25, 25 even after soil covering treatment with the tilling tines.