Meters for particulate farming products and related systems

Abstract

Meters for fertilizers, small seeds, and chemicals include a housing defining a loading chamber, a rotatable metering disk provided with a receiving surface and a discharge surface, the disk including metering orifices; a ring including a discharge opening, and an insulating barrier arranged in the interior of the housing, the insulation barrier forming an insulating chamber on the rotatable disk and defining an inlet region of the disk and an output region of the disk; a metering bulkhead associated with the insulating barrier in the inlet region of the rotating disk with metering orifices loaded, the metering bulkhead being arranged on the rotatable metering disk so that a lower portion of the metering bulkhead is coplanar to the receiving surface of the rotatable disk.

1 . A meter system for particulate farming products, comprising:
 a meter for particulate farming products, comprising:
 a housing defined by a base, a side wall portion, and an upper inlet portion, the housing defining a loading chamber; and 
 a rotatable metering element comprising metering compartments for receiving particulate farming products from the loading chamber; and 
   a density gauge configured to measure a density of material entering or within the loading chamber.   
     
     
         12 . The meter system of claim  11 , wherein the density gauge is integrated to an inlet region of the loading chamber and comprises a housing of predetermined volume and at least one load cell, and wherein the density gauge is operatively coupled with a processing and metering control center.