Portable pressure spray liquid seed treater

Claim 1

A portable pressure spray liquid chemical seed treater comprising a vertically extending support frame, defining an open upper end and a bottom external mounting means, and further comprising: A. an upwardly open hopper positioned proximate said open upper end of said frame, said hopper further including a horizontally disposed rectangular bottom opening having a length elongate with respect to its width; and B. an adjustable gate assembly below and upwardly communicating with said rectangular opening, said gate assembly further comprising a horizontally slideable gate member operable to define a variable open dimension to said width of said rectangular bottom opening wherein said gate assembly further includes a gate operating lever, and said lever further includes a gate width opening guage means; and C. a liquid chemical seed treating chamber having an upper entrance port below and upwardly communicating with said variable width rectangular gate opening, said chamber further including liquid chemical spray nozzle means horizontally positioned below said entrance port and operable to impinge a liquid chemical spray horizontally against either side of a vertical plane parallel to said length dimension of said variable width rectangular gate opening wherein said spray nozzle means further includes a valve means, operably connected with said gate width opening guage means, wherein said lever controls both the width of said gate opening and the liquid pressure to said nozzles, whereby seed placed in said hopper will fall by gravity in a variable width curtain past a regulated liquid chemical spray from said horizontally disposed nozzles and be thereby coated with said chemical spray; and D. a rectangular exit port operable for directly communicating said coated seed curtain with a planting means for said seed.