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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4342365 | Soil crumbling rollers A roller for crumbling soil has round support plates arranged at spaced apart intervals along the axis of rotation of the roller. The plates are profiled with a saw-tooth configuration having folds and projections. Elongated elements, preferably bars, are... | 08/03/1982 |
| 4325435 | Drive transmissions for use in agricultural implements A drive transmission for a soil working implement includes spaced apart elongated tined beams that extend horizontally transverse to the direction of implement travel. The beams are driven to move vertically and horizontally through generally circular pat... | 04/20/1982 |
| 4301568 | Refuse collection devices A refuse collection device comprises a refuse inlet for connection to a suction duct of a refuse collecting container mounted on a vehicle. Resilient elements surround the periphery of the refuse inlet and form a seal between the refuse inlet and a surfac... | 11/24/1981 |
| 4291946 | Mirror arrangements to provide side and rear vision for tractor with implements A tractor which is towing two agricultural implements extending transversely relative to the longitudinal axis of the tractor and having a width which is substantially greater than that of the tractor's width, the two implements being coupled to the tract... | 09/29/1981 |
| 4291637 | Freely rotatable soil cultivating implements with liquid dispensing A cultivating implement has rows of tined soil working members that are freely rotatable about upwardly extending shafts. Each soil working member has tines positioned around the shaft which defines its axis of rotation. At the lower end of the shaft, a c... | 09/29/1981 |
| 4288433 | Cosmetic compositions having a slimming action The invention provides compositions which have a slimming and anti-cellulitis action when applied to the body, topically with massage or using trans-cutaneous electrophoresis. The compositions contain, in combination, a thioether and a xanthine derivative... | 09/08/1981 |
| 4287853 | Milking device A milker has a lower base with a concave bottom and a lower exit under vacuum that can be closed by a float with valve until the milk level pivots and/or raises the float to open the exit. An enclosure body is fitted on the base and includes a main vacuum... | 09/08/1981 |
| 4287710 | Hay machine for working crop lying on the ground A hay machine for working crop lying on the ground, such as a side-delivery rake, a tedder or a combined hay-making machine has a tined carrier for redepositing worked crop on the ground and comprises rows of tines which, in operation, are rotated in a fo... | 09/08/1981 |
| 4285404 | Soil working machine with resilient support and trailing, rigid control arm A soil working machine, such as a cultivator, has a frame beam to which a working element is connected by a support. The support is resilient or resiliently mounted and can deflect when the working element meets an obstruction, or heavy ground resistance,... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4285284 | Seeder with pivoting soil breakers A soil cultivating implement has a row of pivotable soil working members linked to a transverse beam of the frame and individual eccentrics are connected to the members to raise and lower soil engaging portions thereof. The portions are pivoted so that th... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4285095 | Channel strut for stage equipment support system A supporting grid system for installation under a stage ceiling which includes a plurality of struts suspended from the stage ceiling. Each strut has a centrally vertically disposed I-beam portion and a pair of spaced-apart upper arms extending upwardly a... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4284146 | Soil working machine A soil working machine pivotably mounts at least one rotor having serrated working elements. The rotor is pivotally connected at each end to a frame beam by a pin which can be inserted into either one of two holes located one above the other. The hole cho... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4283626 | Methods and apparatus for analysis of mixtures by mass spectrometry Apparatus for analyzing components in a mixture by the steps of introducing the mixture into the ion source of a mass spectrometer, ionizing some of the individual molecules representative of the mixture, using the mass spectrometer to select a beam of io... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4282774 | Torque converter A torque converter has a housing for an input shaft and output shaft drivenly connected to one another with friction elements rotatably mounted on arms on pivotable holders. The holders are interconnected by the members so that rotation of the input shaft... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4281882 | Vehicle track with I-shaped ground engaging profiles A tractor provided with three sets of twin pneumatic tires mounted on wheels on each side of the tractor, a track being received around three, in one embodiment and two in the other embodiment, pneumatic tires. In each embodiment only the rearmost set of ... | 08/04/1981 |
| 4279310 | Soil working machine A soil working machine has at least one, preferably two rotors, one of which is at a higher working level than the other to achieve a relatively large working depth. The rotors are driven through a drive gear transmission located about midway along the le... | 07/21/1981 |
| 4279138 | Vehicle with a lifting device responsive to ground irregularities An agricultural tractor with a hitching or lifting device which carries a farm implement. A control mechanism is provided on the tractor for adjusting automatically the height of the hitching device to enable the implement to follow irregularities in the ... | 07/21/1981 |
| 4257578 | Oil well service rig An oil well service rig having three reels, two of the reels actuated by a hydraulic pump through a gear box which provides for selective engagement or disengagement and a two speed gear ratio change for either reel, the hydraulic pump being driven by a g... | 03/24/1981 |
| 4254834 | Soil working machine A soil working machine has spaced apart groups of soil working tines mounted along the length of an elongated carrier that is driven to rotate through the soil in the normal direction of travel and about a horizontal transverse axis. A hood partially surr... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4254609 | Machines for working mown crop An agricultural implement for carding, combing and/or teasing crop lying on the ground by receiving same from the ground by comb-like structures and then engaging and conveying the crop through the implement by a rotating drum with tines extending therefr... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4252199 | Soil working machines A soil working machine has elongated carriers that extend transverse to the direction of travel, one behind the other. Eccentric mechanisms are attached to each carrier to move tools depending from the carriers, back and forth in directions parallel to th... | 02/24/1981 |
| 4244307 | Broadcast seeder including driven tools and roller A soil working machine has an elongated frame portion that supports a row of soil working tools that extends transverse to the direction of travel. The machine is partly supported by rear wheels that are located adjacent the lateral sides of the machine a... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4243103 | Rotary harrows A rotary harrow has a plurality of soil working members mounted in a row and each of the members is rotatably mounted on an upwardly extending shaft. Each soil working member includes a downwardly extending support on the lower end of a corresponding shaf... | 01/06/1981 |
| 4227580 | Implement with side screening plates and soil roller A harrow has an elongated frame beam supporting a row of rotatable soil-working members mounted side-by-side on upwardly extending shafts. The frame beam and row of soil-working members extend transverse to the direction of travel of the harrow. At each l... | 10/14/1980 |
| 4227365 | Mowing machine A mowing machine has an elongated beam that supports side-by-side rotors with pivoted cutters positioned to cut overlapping paths in front of the beam. The rotor units include an upper rotatably hub with pivoted blades and lower bodies which house corresp... | 10/14/1980 |
| 4224999 | Soil cultivating implements An implement has rotatable cultivating members that are driven to rotate about upwardly extending axes. Each member includes a horizontal support arm and downwardly extending tools journalled at each end of the arm for free rotation. Along the length of e... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4224997 | Soil cultivating implements A soil cultivating implement has an elongated frame portion and a plurality of rotatable members mounted at the lower ends of respective elongated shafts. Each member includes a carrier and tools on radial arms are connected to the carrier. The carrier is... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4222441 | Agricultural implements An implement has a hollow frame portion and tool means on shafts journalled for rotation on the frame portion. The upper ends of the shafts are held in bearings in housings located in the top wall of the frame portion and pinion gears are housed within th... | 09/16/1980 |
| 4219086 | Soil cultivating implements An implement has rotatable soil working members that are driven to rotate about upwardly extending axes. The members each have a downwardly extending carrier that is releaseably connected to a driven shaft, and spaced apart soil working elements mounted a... | 08/26/1980 |
| 4218896 | Overload couplings An overload coupling includes an automatically positioned frangible portion to replace a just fractured frangible portion. A first coupling member caused to rotate by the power take-off of a tractor, or the like, has a rotary advancing spring connected th... | 08/26/1980 |
| 4215526 | Mowing machine A mowing machine which extends laterally of a tractor and is connected to the lifting device of a tractor which has a frame and two rotors driven through gearing from the power take-off of the tractor. Each rotor includes a hollow tube driven by gears in ... | 08/05/1980 |
| 4214635 | Implement An implement mounts a plurality of working members through couplings, each coupling having a first member that can turn relative to a second member, upon overload. A shear pin normally prevents relative turning between the two members until overload and t... | 07/29/1980 |
| 4211283 | Soil cultivating implements A soil working member is journalled in the bottom of an elongated implement frame portion and driven to rotate about an upwardly extending axis. The member includes a horizontal support, that normally is rotated adjacent the frame portion bottom, and tine... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4210209 | Agricultural implement An implement is connectable to the lifting hitch of a tractor and at least one rotary tool is driven to rotate about an upwardly extending axis. The tool or a trestle frame has an overload connection that allows the tool or frame to pivot to an inoperativ... | 07/01/1980 |
| 4209887 | Sectional multi-purpose cargo container A multi-purpose cargo shipping container having provision for optional individual unit use or plural interlocked use. On the one hand the individual unit may be utilized for carrying relatively high density cargo, while on the other, a pair of interlocked... | 07/01/1980 |
| 4209696 | Methods and apparatus for mass spectrometric analysis of constituents in liquids Methods and apparatus for mass analysis of molecular constituents of liquids, including minor constituents, in which an electrospray technique produces electrically charged droplets which divide and evaporate to form gaseous ions of the molecular constitu... | 06/24/1980 |
| 4209693 | Surface ionization monitor for particulates and method A method and apparatus for monitoring particulates which are borne by a surrounding gaseous medium, such as found in smokestack or the like, through interception of the particulates by a hot filament having a bias potential in the range of about 100 to 10... | 06/24/1980 |
| 4208863 | Agricultural machine An agricultural machine, such as a haymaker, for the displacement of stalks, comprising a movable air-permeable screen and air displacing means arranged to induce a pressure difference across the screen thereby to cause stalks to adhere to the screen unde... | 06/24/1980 |
| 4206825 | Agricultural tractor with narrow rear body having lifting device links which function as scrapers for mud or the like on the rear tires An agricultural tractor having at least four side-by-side pneumatic rear tires which provide a relatively narrow path of travel, there being a narrow rear portion of the tractor's body having about the same width or less as seen in plan of each of the tir... | 06/10/1980 |
| 4205793 | Spreader A spreader which is for fertilizer or seed is adapted to be carried by a three-point hitch of a tractor, the spreader having two side-by-side hopper portions, each hopper portion having eight triangular-shaped wall parts terminating in a circular flat par... | 06/03/1980 |
