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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181602 | Compressed straw material Bedding material for livestock is produced by extruding straw through a conventional cubing system rather than a conventional pellet mill. The cubing process generates friction in turn changing the properties of the straw making the straw particles highly absorbent.... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8162090 | Powered foldable scooter A scooter has a platform on which a rider can stand, a front wheel attached to a steering system including an upstanding handle bar and rear wheel which is driven. The scooter can be folded at a hinge line across the platform so to allow it to collapse. A case for t... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161719 | Rotary disk crop harvesting header with an auger and impellers for converging the crop A crop header has generally horizontal flail disks mounted for driven rotation about generally upright axes. A pair of conditioner rolls is mounted in a discharge opening. A crop converging system includes two over-shot auger elements defined by a common auger shaft... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8136445 | Swath Roller A swath roller is attached to a tractor and includes a first frame with two arms each independently connected to the tractor on an adjustable bracket allowing at least up and down movement of the arm relative to its bracket and a transverse bean across the arms. A s... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8122974 | Apparatus for drilling machine alignment Apparatus for controlling a drilling machine to drill a series of parallel holes, where the drilling machine comprises a carrier vehicle movable over the terrain, a boom mounted on the vehicle for movement side to side on the vehicle, a mast carried on an outer end ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120528 | Apparatus for satellite telecommunications A portable communication device has a first system for receiving signals from GPS satellites and a second system for communication with multiple satellites of a low orbit communications system. The device is arranged, at a time of required transmission, to monitor t... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117812 | Header transport A swather tractor has ground drive wheels at a first end, castor wheels at a second end and a header lift arms at the first end and can be driven with the first end forward for harvesting and with the first end rearward for towing. A transport for the header include... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8113353 | Harvesting corn cobs A cart is towed behind a combine harvester for collecting corn cobs and includes a conveyer belt feeding into a system for separating cobs from residue to be discharged and a tank for receiving and transporting the cobs. An unload auger is provided from the tank to ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8098163 | Birth monitoring system for piglets The number of piglets dying at birth is reduced by providing a temperature sensor in a farrowing crate at the piglet area thereof on a movable cover so that, when the sow is expected to give birth, the sensor is located in the crate at a location to detect the prese... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094977 | Intrusion detection system for use on single mode optical fiber using a simplified polarimeter A telecommunications optical fiber is secured against intrusion by detecting manipulation of the optical fiber prior to an intrusion event. This can be used in a non-locating system where the detection end is opposite the transmit end or in a locating system which u... | 01/10/2012 |
| D652123 | Water supply pipe | 01/10/2012 |
| 8074570 | Printing of lottery tickets In a row of lottery tickets each ticket has variable image printing game data printed onto a base layer on a substrate and a series of covering layers including at least one sealing layer and at least one scratch-off layer. Onto the scratch-off layer is a multi-colo... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073524 | Control of magnetic field homogeneity in movable MRI scanning system A patient imaging system includes a patient support table and an MRI system including a cylindrical magnet. The magnet defines a cylindrical bore for receiving the patient on the table where the magnet is mounted for rotation about a vertical axis on a slew ring car... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069640 | Rotary disk crop harvesting header with an auger member A crop header has generally horizontal flail disks mounted for driven rotation about generally upright axes. A pair of conditioner rolls is mounted in a discharge opening. A crop converging system includes two over-shot auger elements defined by a common auger shaft... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8066447 | Wood mat and apparatus and method for assembling same A wood mat has a first layer of timbers extending parallel to one another in a longitudinal direction and a second layer timbers spanning across the first timbers parallel to one another and transversely to the first timbers such that each second timber intersects a... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8066321 | Structural shear plate for a vehicle A structural shear panel for forming a floor panel for support by a vehicle frame is formed by a composite of top and bottom sheets and a core with a vacuum infused resin. The panel is mainly planar and terminates at its side edges at a portion which lies in a commo... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8062728 | Composite material formed from foam filled honeycomb panel with top and bottom resin filled sheets A composite panel is formed from a honeycomb core panel with a foam material filling the tubular cells and a fibrous reinforcing cover sheets extending over the top and bottom of the panel. The cover sheets are filled with a set resin material which extends from the... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8061929 | Rig mat system using panels of composite material A rig mat is formed by rectangular panels fastened end to end by cooperating connectors. In one arrangement the first connector is C-shaped shaped to form a slot and the second T-shaped shaped with a flange of the T wider than the mouth inserted through the mouth. I... | 11/22/2011 |
| D649317 | Recycling and refuse curbside cart | 11/22/2011 |
| 8056311 | Tensioning of the top roll of a crop conditioner A crop conditioner includes a frame mounting a bottom fixed roller and a top liftable roller. The top roller is liftable at each end on a pivot member tensioned by a tension link, a tension spring and a bell crank connected between the tension link and the spring. T... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8020648 | Windrower tractor with rear wheel suspension A tractor has front wheels mounted on the frame at fixed angles and a pair of rear wheels each mounted on a respective castor assembly. Each of the castor assemblies has a vertical pivot axis mounted in a swivel support of an axle of the frame and a bottom transvers... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8020363 | Rock guard for the cutter bar of a rotary disk header A crop header includes a cutter bar carrying rotary cutter disks spaced along a gear case. A support beam extends behind the gear case and carries rock guards side by side along the cutter bar and each extending from the beam forwardly underneath the gear case in fr... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8016524 | Trailer for transporting golf carts and recreational vehicles A semi-trailer for is converted for transporting motorized golf carts and side by side recreational vehicles which are loaded onto the floor and an upper support level with detachable two tier loading ramps and receivers. The upper support level includes transverse ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8015784 | Rotary disk crop harvesting header with an auger and impellers for converging the crop A crop header has generally horizontal flail disks mounted for driven rotation about generally upright axes. A pair of conditioner rolls is mounted in a discharge opening. A crop converging system includes two over-shot auger elements defined by a common auger shaft... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8006469 | Crop harvesting header with rotary disks and impellers for transferring the crop inwardly to a discharge opening A crop header has generally horizontal flail disks mounted for driven rotation about generally upright axes. A pair of conditioner rolls is mounted in a discharge opening and a transfer roller is mounted behind the disks and in front of the nip. At each end, two dis... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7993719 | Assembled structure of a sandwich panel and a connecting member using adhesive attachment A vehicle primarily a mass transit vehicle is formed primarily of composite materials which define a roof section and a floor section of two fiber reinforced sheets connected by an integral core and two rigid side wall sections each formed from welded steel or optio... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7980199 | Containment apparatus for containing gestating sows Gestating sows are housed in a series of gestation stalls arranged in a row and backing onto an open alley along a rear of the row of stalls into which the sow can enter by backing out of the stall. A common trough extends along the front of the stalls and is fasten... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7975648 | Animal feeder with adjustment of a feed discharge opening An animal feeder includes a hopper above a shelf onto which feed can fall to be taken by the animal or dropped into a trough below the shelf. The height of the shelf is adjustable in a course movement to move the shelf from a low height for smaller animals to a rais... | 07/12/2011 |
| D641287 | Automobile | 07/12/2011 |
| 7967542 | Bin sweep auger A discharge system for a grain storage bin has a discharge auger extending from the center of the bin floor to an exterior location and a sweep auger pivotally supported at an inner end on a post at the center and extending across the floor to the periphery of the b... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7959790 | Method and electrode construction for electro-coagulation treatment of water and waste water An improved method for the electro-coagulation c treatment of water and waste water includes an electrolytic cell having an anode and a helical cathode mounted longitudinally within a duct for receiving the contaminated water or waste water at one end and for discha... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7959786 | Cathodic protection Cathodic protection of a structure including a steel member at least partly buried in a covering layer, such as steel rebar in a concrete structure, is provided by embedding sacrificial anodes into the concrete layer at spaced positions over the layer and connecting... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958706 | Swather with automatic reel control In a swather formed by a tractor and attached heeder for cutting standing crop to form a swath, reel speed and optionally draper speed are controlled relative to ground speed by a control system including a manually operable input and display available to the operat... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7525306 | Magnetic encoder with separation of sensor from the environment A magnetic encoder for detecting for example movement of a continuous pipe, wire line, pipe joints, rod, etc. into a well includes a wheel in the contaminated environment of the well with a permanent magnet mounted on the wheel such that the magnet moves past a sens... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7520974 | Cathodic protection of a concrete structure having a part in contact with a wetting medium and a part above the medium Corrosion of steel in a concrete structure such as a column in sea water occurs primarily at the zone which is subject to a wetting and drying action and is inhibited using cathodic protection by attaching to the column at the zone an impervious sealed sleeve which ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7520094 | Mullion joint between two frame members of a window or door frame A mullion for a window frame is formed by two frame members back to back to form the mullion. The facing surfaces are connected by providing aligned first and second recesses therein where each of the recesses has a mouth at the which is narrower than a base and has... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7514135 | Pultruded part reinforced by longitudinal and transverse fibers and a method of manufacturing thereof A method for forming a pultruded part includes collating reinforcing fibers by providing a first layer of reinforcing rovings extending in the longitudinal pultrusion direction, applying onto the first layer an intermediate layer of reinforcing fibers at least some ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7503888 | Centrifugal separator of heavier particulate materials from light particulate materials in a slurry using a stepped lead-in surface A centrifuge bowl for separating heavier particles from lighter particles and water comprises a conical lead-in wall leading of the bowl to a single recess or a pair of annular recesses at axially spaced positions. Each recess is generally V-shaped with an upper sid... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7500943 | Centrifugal separator of heavier particulate materials from light particulate materials in a slurry using a ring in the collection recess A centrifuge bowl for separating heavier particles from lighter particles and water comprises a conical lead-in wall leading of the bowl to a single recess or a pair of annular recesses at axially spaced positions. Each recess is generally V-shaped with an upper sid... | 03/10/2009 |
