Hand held seed planter with roller wheel structure

Claim 1

A row seed planter for planting seeds in a prepared furrow in home gardens and the like, comprising a ground-engaging wheel-like seed reservoir and dispenser rotatable subassembly, an elongated handle member adapted to be hand-grasped near an upper end thereof and extend upwardly and rearwardly from the rotatable subassembly and provide rotary journal support therefor, the rotatable subassembly comprising a rigid flat annular ground-engaging disc member having a large diameter center hole there-through, a seed housing shell structure encircling said axis along a circular cross-section path concentric with said axis joined to and extending from one side of said ground-engaging disc member defining a seed chamber of predetermined capacity communicating with said center hole and having a removable closure covered fill opening at an end portion thereof spaced from said disc member, a seed elevating disc fixed to the opposite side of said ground-engaging disc member from said seed chamber forming an opposite side closure wall for said center hole, and having an apertured center bushing, a horizontal center shaft rotatably journaled in said bushing and having a threaded portion projecting from said seed elevating disc through and journaled in the lower end portion of said handle member, a single apertured seed discharge disc plate concentric with said axis mounted closely adjacent said seed elevating disc on the threaded portion of said shaft and restrained against rotation relative to said handle member to locate the aperture therein as a seed discharge opening at a predetermined level above the lowermost portion of said chamber, and said seed elevating disc having a plurality of seed transfer openings therethrough bounded along trailing edges thereof by inclined lift tabs projecting into said chamber and located in circumferentially spaced relation along a circular path registering with said seed discharge opening to lift seeds from the lowermost zone of said chamber to said discharge opening for single-seed discharge therethrough at spaced intervals along the furrow as the planter is rolled therealong.