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1. A seed delivery mechanism for an agricultural planter that receives seeds from a seed meter of the planter and delivers the seeds to a seed trench as the planter moves in a planting direction, the seed delivery mechanism comprising:
a first endless belt trained about a first drive pulley; and a second endless belt trained about a second drive pulley, the first and second drive pulleys rotating the first and second endless belts to provide confronting belt segments that form a seed delivery path between a conveyor entry point and a release point; wherein the first and second endless belts comprise a downward reach oriented to move seeds predominantly downward and a rearward reach oriented to move the seed predominantly rearward, and wherein the rearward reach provides a rearward velocity component to seeds at the release point that offsets a forward velocity of the planter as it moves in the planting direction. |
