US 12,477,974 B2
Device for separating planting material
Henrik Wulferding, Ehrenburg (DE)
Assigned to Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG, Damme (DE)
Filed by Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG, Damme (DE)
Filed on Nov. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/520,359.
Claims priority of application No. 202020106359.6 (DE), filed on Nov. 5, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0132727 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. A01C 9/02 (2006.01)
CPC A01C 9/02 (2013.01) 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for separating planting material, comprising:
a hopper forming a storage space; and
at least one conveyor device configured for placing a row of the planting material, which conveyor device comprises:
at least one carrier element rotating in operation in a direction of rotation and about a deflection axis, and
a plurality of conveying elements arranged on the carrier element, which, in operation, each run through the storage space for receiving a planting material component being in a first position relative to the carrier element and through a dispensing area for dispensing the planting material component,
wherein at least a first conveying element is mounted so as to be movable relative to the carrier element from the first position into a second position at least proportionally parallel to the deflection axis, and wherein the first conveying element is associated with a movement device which comprises at least one fixing element that is fixed in a stationary manner to the carrier element and coupled at least indirectly to the first conveying element.