Runner apparatus for orientation planting

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR PLANTING SEEDS WITH THEIR FLAT SIDES DISPOSED VERTICALLY, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING: GROUNDENGAGING MEANS INCLUDING FURROW-FORMING BLADE MEANS HAVING A HEEL PORTION AND HAVING FIRST AND SECOND WALL MEMBERS EXTENDING REARWARDLY OF SAID HEEL PORTION IN HORIZONTALLY SPACED, GENERALLY PARALLEL RELATIONSHIP, SAID HEEL PORTION INCLUDING APERTURE MEANS OPENING INTO THE SPACE BETWEEN SAID WALL MEMBERS AND SEED-STOP MEANS GENERALLY OVERLYING SAID APERTURE MEANS, ONE OF SAID WALL MEMBERS INCLUDING A LOWER PORTION EXTENDING VERTICALLY BEYOND THE LOWER EDGE OF THE OTHER WALL MEMBER, SAID LOWER PORTION BEING RELATIVELY STATIONARY WITH RESPECT TO SEEDS PASSING DOWNWARDLY BETWEEN SAID WALL MEMBERS, THE EARTH EXPOSED BENEATH SAID LOWER EDGE BEING RELATIVELY MOVABLE WITH RESPECT TO SAID SEEDS UPON FORWARD TRANSPORT OF SAID GROUND-ENGAGING MEANS, WHEREBY THE RELATIVE MOTION OF SAID EARTH AND SAID LOWER PORTION ORIENTS SAID SEEDS GENERALLY WITH THEIR FLAT SIDES DISPOSED VERTICALLY; SEED SUPPLY MEANS, INCLUDING A DELIVERY CHUTE ALIGNED WITH SAID WALL MEMBERS TO DROP SEEDS THEREBETWEEN; AND SEED-DROP REGULATING MEANS FOR CONTROLLING THE PASSAGE OF SEEDS FROM SAID CHUTE TO THE SPACE BETWEEN SAID WALL MEMBERS, INCLUDING A LEAF ELEMENT NORMALLY SITUATED BETWEEN SAID WALL MEMBERS TO INTERCEPT SEEDS FROM SAID CHUTE AND HORIZONTALLY SLIDABLY DISPOSED IN SAID APERTURE MEANS, SAID REGULATING MEANS FURTHER INCLUDING PERIODIC DRIVE MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID LEAF ELEMENT AND OPERATIVE TO PULL SAID LEAF ELEMENT FORWARDLY OF SAID SEEDSTOP MEANS WHEREBY TO DUMP SEEDS PREVIOUSLY COLLECTED ON SAID LEAF ELEMENT INTO THE SPACE BETWEEN SAID WALL MEMBERS.