Potato Planter Improvement to Reduce Skips and Rolling

摘要

An improved cup-style potato planter that corrects seed “skips.” Cups on a continuous belt conveyor sometimes fail to pick up potato seeds from a bin, or the seeds drop from the cup due to vibration. The design disclosed here puts replacement seeds in empty cups before the conveyor reaches a point in conveyor travel where the seed is supposed to be dropped into the ground.