Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7231756 | Device for mowing plants A device for mowing plants has a frame, deflection rollers connected to the frame, and a circulating endless cutting belt provided with cutting teeth and guided about the cutting belt. A lower guide rail is connected to the frame for guiding the cutting belt. Guide ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7181899 | Machine for collecting and pressing an agricultural harvest A machine for collecting and pressing a crop to roll-shaped bales has a crop collecting device and a bale-forming device with a winding chamber arranged downstream of the crop collecting device. The bale-forming device is guided about first and second stationary def... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181898 | Machine for collecting and pressing an agricultural Harvest A machine for collecting and pressing a crop to roll-shaped bales has a crop collecting device and a bale-forming device defining a winding chamber arranged downstream of the crop collecting device. At least a first and a second stationary deflection devices are pro... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7152521 | Method and device for compressing square bales for stalk material In a method and a device for compressing square large bales for stalk material on large baling presses by using twines that engage across longitudinal sides and end faces of bales and are tied together, wherein compressed large bales can be formed by a number of adj... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7140170 | Device and method for measuring and controlling bale length A device for determining and controlling a bale length on a pick-up baler for agricultural harvested material has a pick-up device, a feed channel connected to the pick-up device, and a pressing channel with pressing piston connected to the feed channel. A conveying... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7121070 | Harvester A harvester for harvesting stalky crops has an intake and conveying device having an endless conveyor provided with outwardly oriented cutting, holding, and conveying elements that form cutting planes and holding planes. The endless conveyor has a supply area for tr... | 10/17/2006 |
| 6925790 | Harvesting equipment for stalk plants A harvesting apparatus for harvesting corn or other such stalked vegetation includes at least one circulating endless conveyor for gathered plants, which forms an area at an end thereof for delivery of the plants to an inlet opening of a further processing apparatus... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6837034 | Harvesting equipment Harvesting equipment (1) for harvesting corn or similar stalk-like harvested products, the harvesting equipment (1) having at least one link chain (4; 5), which is provided with holding means for the cut-down harvested products (3), and h... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6668532 | Harvesting machine for stalk crops having a stepped cutting blades A harvesting machine for harvesting corn and similar crops on stalks has at least one circulating endless conveyor for engaging a crop, wherein the endless conveyor forms a crop feed area for feeding the crop to an inlet opening of a processing device for... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6644001 | Implement combination An implement combination has a self-propelled support vehicle moveable in a travel and working direction. At least one front-mounted implement is connected to a front end of the self-propelled support vehicle in the travel and working direction. At least ... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6638159 | Harvesting machine having a rotatable ejection elbow A harvesting machine, especially a self-propelled pick-up chopper for picking up and chopping corn, wilted grass, green feed and similar harvested produce, including an ejection elbow arranged after pulling in and chopping devices for transferring harvest... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6607204 | Self-propelled harvesting machine, especially a pick-up chopper A self-propelled harvesting machine, especially a pick-up chopper, for picking up and chopping harvested material, such as corn, green crops, etc., including a machine frame, a horizontally situated floating axle arranged parallel to a direction of travel... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6594983 | Cutting device for an agricultural harvester A cutting device for agricultural harvesting machines, such as, for instance, self-loading forage boxes or baling presses with a conveyor channel, in which a number of cutting blades mounted in rotatable fashion, arranged at least in a single row and prot... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6594979 | Self-propelled agricultural harvesting machine A self-propelled harvesting machine has an attachment for picking up cut crop or for harvesting stalked crop and a processing device for chopping the crop. A curved spout is arranged downstream of the processing device for picking up the crop at a pick-up... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6550231 | Harvesting machine, especially a self-propelled pick-up chopper A harvesting machine such as a self-propelled pick-up chopper including a feeder housing having supplying elements and which can be transferred from a swiveled-in operating position about an axle into a swiveled-up maintenance position. In order to be abl... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6539693 | Harvesting machine, especially a self-propelled pick-up chopper Harvesting machine for picking up and chopping corn, wilted grass, green feed and similar harvested material including a feeding device, a chopping device arranged after the feeding device and a conditioning device for conditioning the harvested material ... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6510679 | Harvesting machine, especially a self-propelled pick-up chopper A harvesting machine, especially a self-propelled pick-up chopper for picking up and chopping corn, wilted grass, green feed and similar harvested material includes a feeding housing, which is disposed ahead of a chopping device and accommodates feeding r... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6508050 | Device for harvesting agricultural, stalk-like material A device (1) for mowing agricultural, stalk-like material and forming a windrow from the mown stalk-like material, which is to be deposited next to the device, the device having a mowing unit (10), a preparer (11) and a transverse conveyor (12), the trans... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6425234 | Pick-up baler for harvested agricultural produce A pick-up baler for agricultural produce with a compression piston 9 and a rotary conveyor, which rotates about an axis of rotation 18, comprises rakes 21, 22, which have axes 23 extending approximately parallel to the axis of rotation 18 of the rotor, co... | 07/30/2002 |
| 5791133 | Rotary rake for a hay making machine A rotary rake for a hay making machine has prong brackets rotating about a substantially vertically aligned axis and having prongs at their outer ends and provided with respective eccentrically positioned cam rollers within the gyro casing and with respec... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5205105 | Machine for receiving and compressing agricultural harvested crops A machine for receiving and compressing agricultural harvested crops, such as hay, straw or grass, to roll-shaped bales with a coiling chamber, which can be swung open and moved by means of a chassis comprises a front chamber housing and a rear chamber ho... | 04/27/1993 |
| 4771592 | Machine which is pulled or provided with a three-point attachment to a tractor and used for the harvesting of corn and similar stalk-like crops The invention relates to a machine which is pulled or attached to a three-point attachment on a tractor and used for the harvesting of corn or similar stalk-like crops. The machine has a cutting device and a chopping blower arranged subsequent thereto wit... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4622804 | Machine which is pulled or provided with a three-point attachment to a tractor and used for the harvesting of corn and similar stalk-like crop The invention relates to a machine which is pulled or attached to a three-point attachment on a tractor and used for the harvesting of corn or similar stalk-like crops. The machine has a cutting device and a chopping blower arranged subsequent thereto wit... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4610123 | Apparatus for covering bales in baling presses An attachable apparatus for covering round bales of agricultural harvested goods with a section of a covering inside a molding chamber of a baling press includes a supply roll freely rotatable about a tranversal axis and having an adjustable braking force... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4604855 | Wrapping apparatus for round bales in baling presses Wrapping apparatus for use with a baling machine of the type having a forming chamber in which a round bale is formed and into which a wrapping material is fed to wrap the bale, includes a housing, a feeding device mounted on the housing for feeding a wra... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4212149 | Crop baling machines A crop baling machine of the kind for producing wound bales has a hollow cylindrical winding compartment having a bottom gap in the compartment cylindrical wall through which the crop is fed by a pick-up device. Conveying rollers then convey the crop to a... | 07/15/1980 |
| 4125987 | Row crop harvester A machine for cutting and harvesting of crops having stalks which is pulled by a tractor in a direction of travel. The machine includes a guide casing which has vertical cylindrical wall means. A vertical drum with gripper teeth is rotatably mounted on th... | 11/21/1978 |