US 11,910,738 B2
Seed transportation system and method
Wolfgang Rosenbaum, Rohrbach a.d. Gölsen (AT); Markus Leopold, Rohrbach a.d. Gölsen (AT); Nikolaus Pfaffenbichler, Vienna (AT); and Birgit Mitter, Hinterbruhl (AT)
Assigned to AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH, Vienna (AT); and INDAT MODELLBAU WERKZEUGBAU FORMENBAU GMBH, Rohrbach A.D. Golsen (AT)
Appl. No. 16/649,587
Filed by AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Vienna (AT); and INDAT Modellbau Werkzeugbau Formenbau GmbH, Rohrbach a.d. Gölsen (AT)
PCT Filed Sep. 21, 2018, PCT No. PCT/EP2018/075590
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 20, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/057885, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 28, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 17192678 (EP), filed on Sep. 22, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0275600 A1, Sep. 3, 2020
Int. Cl. A01C 1/00 (2006.01); A01C 1/04 (2006.01); B65G 29/00 (2006.01)
CPC A01C 1/04 (2013.01) [B65G 29/00 (2013.01); A01C 2001/048 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A seed transportation system comprising: a rotatable wheel with at least one seed support for holding a seed; wherein said at least one seed support has one or more fixed support structures configured to restrict movement of the seed in a circumferential direction relative to the rotatable wheel and in a direction away from an axis of rotation of the rotatable wheel; wherein said at least one seed support has an access opening in a radially outer side, said access opening permitting access to the seed; said access opening is a groove in an outer circumference of the rotatable wheel in a plane orthogonal to said axis of rotation, said plane extending through said at least one seed support; said groove permitting access to the seed along a secant line cutting said outer circumference of the rotatable wheel, a groove axis extending along said groove and being transverse to said axis of rotation, said secant line being aligned with said groove axis.