MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641049297 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on April 17, for 'manually operated seed drill with indexed spacing and independent seed discharge.'
Inventor(s) include V A Nandica; Deepak P; Sakthivel G; Jegadeeshwaran R; J Lakshmipathi; and K Sudhan.
The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure relates to a manually operated seed drill (100). The manually operated seed drill (100) includes a frame (1), a seed hopper (2) supported on the frame (1) and including a feeder opening (10), a front indexing wheel (3) rotatably mounted on the frame (1) and provided with spaced slots (4), and a pawl assembly (5) operable via a first lever (6) to engage the spaced slots (4) and arrest rotation of the front indexing wheel (3) at indexed positions. A seed gate (8), operable via a second lever (9), is disposed at the feeder opening (10) and is biased to a closed position to discharge seed independently of rotation of the front indexing wheel (3). The manually operated seed drill (100) further includes a furrow opener (15) and a rear wheel positioned as a leveller (12) for covering soil over discharged seed during forward movement."
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