Precision planter for plastic sheet plant rows

Claim 1

A PERCISION SEED PLANTER OPERABLE IN CONTACT WITH THE GROUND SURFACE OF A FIELD COMPRISING IN COMBINATION: (A) A FRAME, (B) A CONCAVE PULLEY JOURNALED ON SAID FRAME, (C) A CONVEX PULLEY JOURNALED ON SAID FRAME, (D) A LATERALLY FLEXIBLE BELT OPERATING OVER SAID PULLEYS WITH ITS OUTER PERIPHERAL SURFACE IN CONTACT WITH THE GROUND SURFACE SO AS TO SUPPORT SAID FRAME THROUGH SAID PULLEYS, (E) A SERIES OF LONGITUDINALLY SPACED PLANTER FINGERS MOUNTED ON THE OUTER PERIPHERAL SURFACE OF SAID BELT PRESSED IN AND REMOVED FROM THE GROUND BY THE ROLLING OF SAID PULLEYS WITHIN SAID BELT WHILE SAID BELT IS SUPPORTED ON THE GROUND SURFACE, (F) EACH OF SAID PLANTER FINGERS BEING SPLIT TO FORM A PAIR OF LATERALLY DISPOSED SEGMENTS HAVING A PARTING LINE INTERMEDIATE THE SIDES OF AND PARALLEL TO THE DIRECTION OF TRAVEL OF SAID BELT AND HAVING HOLLOWED OUT SEED COMPARTMENTS FORMED THEREIN ADJACENT SAID PARTING LINE, (G) SAID PLANTER FINGER BEING MOUNTED ON THE OUTER PERIPHERAL SURFACE OF SAID BELT SO THAT SAID PARTING LINE CLOSES LATERALLY WHEN SAID BELT APPROACHES SAID CONCAVE PULLEY AND OPENS LATERALLY WHEN SAID BELT APPROACHES SAID CONVEX PULLEY.