Precision seed planter feeder

Claim 1

A PRECISION SEED PLANTER COMPRISING IN COMBINATION: (A) A FRAME, (B) A CONCAVE PULLEY JOURNALED ON THE FRONT END OF SAID FRAME, (C) A CONVEX PULLEY JOURNALED ON THE REAR END OF SAID FRAME, (D) A FLAT PLANTER BELT OPERATING OVER THE CONCAVE AND CONVEX PERIPHERIES OF SAID PULLEYS, (E) A SERIES OF LONGITUDINALLY SPACED PLANTER FINGERS MOUNTED ON THE OUTER PERIPHERAL SURFACE OF SAID PLANTER BELT, EACH FINGER COMPRISING, (F) A PAIR OF LATERALLY POSITIONED SEGMENTS HAVING, (G) A PARTING LINE LYING IN A LONGITUDINALLY DISPOSED PLANE PARALLEL TO THE DIRECTION OF PLANTER BLET TRAVEL AND, (H) MOUNTING FLANGES EXTENDING LATERALLY AWAY FROM SAID PARTING LINE PLANE OUTWARDLY AWAY FROM THE ROOT OF SAID PLANTER FINGER SEGMENTS, (I) MEANS FOR SECURING SAID FLANGES TO SAID PLANTER BELT, A (J) HOLLOWED OUT PORTS FORMED IN EACH OF SAID SEGMENTS ADJACENT SAID PARTING LINE, (K) A SEED PASSAGEWAY FORMED THROUGH SAID PLANTER BELT IN COMMUNICATION WITH SAID HOLLOWED OUT PORTIONS OF SAID SEED FINGER SEGMENTS, (L) AN ENDLESS BELT PRECISION SEED FEEDING UNIT ON SAID FRAME ADAPTED TO PRESENT ACCURATELY METERED QUANTITIES OF SEED TO SAID SEED PASSAGEWAYS IN SAID PLANTER BELT AS SAID PLANTER BELT TRAVELS FROM SAID CONCAVE PULLEY TO SAID CONVEX PULLEY COMPRISING, (M) SEED BOX FIXED ON SAID FRAME, (N) AN INLET PASSAGEWAY IN THE TOP OF SAID SEED BOX, (O) AN OPEN BOTTOM IN SAID SEED BOX, (P) A SEED CHAMBER FORMED WITHIN SAID SEED BOX COMMUNICATING WITH SAID OPEN BOTTOM THEREO, (Q) A SEED HOPPER ON SAID FRAME COMMUNICATING WITH SAID INLET PASSAGEWAY, (R) A PAIR OF FEEDER PULLEYS JOURNALED ON SAID FRAME SPACED LONGITUDINALLY OF AND LOCATED ABOVE THE LOWER GROUND ENGAGING RUN OF SAID PLANTER BELT ADAPTED TO OPERATIVELY SUPPORT SAID ENDLESS BELT OF SAID FEEDING UNIT, (S) A GUIDE PLATE FIXED ON SAID FRAME BELOW THE OPEN BOTTOM OF SAID SEED BOX AND ABOVE SAID LOWER GROUND CONTACTING RUN OF SAID PLANTER BELT ADAPTED TO ENGAGE THE UNDERSURFACE OF THE LOWER RUN OF SAID FEEDER BELT TO MAINTAIN THE BOTTOM OF SAID SEED BOX CLOSED AS SAID FEEDER BELT MOVES OVER SAID OPEN SEED BOX BOTTOM, (T) A DISCHARGE OPENING IN SAID GUIDE PLATE LATERALLY ALIGNED WITH SAID SEED PASSAGEWAYS IN SAID PLANTER BELT AND LOCATED BEYOND THE REAR END OF SAID SEED BOX, (U) MEANS FOR EJECTING SEED FROM SAID SEED DISCHARGE OPENING IN SAID GUIDE PLATE INTO SAID SEED PASSAGEWAYS IN SAID PLANTER BELT, (V) A SERIS OF LONGITUDINALLY SPACED SEED HOLES FROMED THROUGH SAID FEEDER BELT ADAPTED TO MOVE OVER SAID DISCHARGE OPENING IN SAID GUIDE PLATE, (W) MEANS FOR DRIVING SAID FEEDER BELT FROM THE FORWARD TRAVEL MOTION OF SAID PLANTER ALONG A PLANT ROW, (X) AND MEANS IN SAID SEED BOX FOR AGITATING THE SEEDS THEREIN TO CAUSE THEM TO ENTER SAID SEED HOLES IN SAID FEEDER BELT.