Design and experiment of stratified seed-filling room on rice pneumatic metering device

In order to meet the requirement of 1-3 seeds for each hole using the precise hill-drop drilling technique, a seed-filling stratified room was designed, which was between the seed-metering device and the seed box on pneumatic feed mechanism for precision rice hill-drop sowing. Indic hybrid Peizataifeng was taken as the research object, and the impacts of the seed-filling stratified room on the performance of the pneumatic feed mechanism was studied by the single-factor experiment and orthogonal experiment in this paper. The experimental results showed that there existed an optimization condition on the capability of the metering device to meet the needs of the production. Compared with the existed researches, the results showed that the seed-filling stratified room between the seed-metering device and the seed box on pneumatic feed device, had a good influence on the precision of the pneumatic seed-metering device, improved the fluidity of the seeds and decreased the friction force and extrusion force among the seeds.