Seed planter

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SEED PLANTER COMPRISING: FRAME MEANS INCLUDING AN UPWARDLY AND REARWARDLY INCLINED SUPPORTING PLATE; CONVEYOR DRIVE WHEELS POSITIONED AT OPPOSITE ENDS OF SAID PLATE; A SEED CONVEYOR CHAIN OPERATIVE TO BE TRAINED ABOUT SAID WHEELS IN DRIVING RELATIONSHIP AND SUPPORTED ALONG ITS UPWARD FLIGHT BY SAID PLATE; A HOPPER FRAME PIVOTALLY MOUNTED TO SAID FRAME MEANS ABOVE THE SAID PLATE, SO THAT THE UPPER FLIGHT OF SAID CONVEYOR CHAIN DEFINES WITH SAID HOPPER FRAME A SEED CHAMBER, SAID CONVEYOR CHAIN BEING FORMED OF PLATE LINKS PIVOTALLY JOINED TO ONE ANOTHER, SAID LINKS BEING OF OBLONG, GENERALLY RECTANGULAR CONFIGURATION AND POSITIONED CLOSELY ADJACENT ONE ANOTHER DURING MOVEMENT ALONG SAID UPPER FLIGHT, THE TOP SURFACES OF SAID LINKS THEREBY BEING SUBSTANTIALLY CONTINUOUS SO THAT SEEDS CARRIED IN SAID HOPPER TEND TO FALL DOWNWARDLY ALONG SAID TOP SURFACES, SAID CONVEYOR CHAIN HAVING TWO SETS OF SEED RECEIVING RECESSES, ONE SET LOCATED ON EACH SIDE THEREOF, SAID RECESSES BEING DEFINED BY THE REARWARD WALL OF ONE LINK AND THE REARWARD WALL OF THE ADJACENT FORWARD LINK SO THAT SAID RECESSES OPEN UP AT THE END OF SAID UPPER FLIGHT; AND A FIRST SPRING BIASED DEFLECTING MEANS POSITIONED IN THE PATH OF TRAVEL OF EACH OF SAID SETS OF RECESSES ALONG THEIR UPPER FLIGHT TO DEFLECT EXCESS SEEDS OUT OF SAID RECESS; AN UPRIGHT DISPENSING TUBE AT THE END OF SAID UPWARD FLIGHT FOR RECEIVING SEEDS FROM SAID OPEN RECESSES TO DIRECT THE SAME TO THE GROUND; A SECOND DEFLECTING MEANS POSITIONED ADJACENT THE MOUTH OF SAID DISPENSING TUBE TO ASSURE IN COOPERATION WITH SAID FIRST DEFLECTING MEANS THAT ONLY A SINGLE SEED IS RECEIVED BY SAID DISPENSING TUBE FROM EACH OF SAID RECESSES; AND FURROW-FORMING PLATE MEANS AT THE BOTTOM OF SAID FRAME MEANS OPERATIVE TO SEPARATE THE SOIL AS THE STRUCTURE IS MOVED ALONG THE GROUND.