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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110179982 | Transplanter Transplanter which can avoid skips when planting, which skips may occur when seeds in a tray row fail to grow into seedlings. This is accomplished by picking up an entire row of seedlings from a tray, transferring the seedlings to a mechanism which eliminates gaps betwe... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20100170426 | Transplanting Apparatus A transplanting apparatus which can plant virtually 100% of the seedlings from a nursery tray, while avoid skips when planting which may happen when seeds in a tray row fail to grow into seedlings. This is accomplished by picking up an entire row of seedlings from a tra... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20090031935 | Transplanter Transplanter which can avoid skips when planting, which skips may occur when seeds in a tray row fail to grow into seedlings. This is accomplished by picking up an entire row of seedlings from a tray, transferring the seedlings to a mechanism which eliminates gaps betwe... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20070283862 | GRAFTED SEEDLING PRODUCING APPARATUS The present invention is a grafted seedling producing apparatus 10 capable of rotating seedlings W in an alignment direction even if they are those having large leaves and thereafter halting the rotation to align them, or the apparatus 10 having loading po... | 12/13/2007 |
| 20070272133 | DEVICE FOR ASSISTING TRANSPLANTING OF SEEDLINGS, MACHINE INCORPORATING THE DEVICE, AND METHOD USING THE DEVICE Seedlings are typically grown in trays of soil plugs. Once the seedlings have attained a predetermined size, they may be transplanted to the ground for continued seedling growth and development. Several machines are known in the art, which allow automated seedling trans... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070131152 | Planting apparatus and method Embodiments of an apparatus and method for planting plants are disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a vehicle, such as a tractor, and a planting apparatus that is movable across the ground by the vehicle. The vehicle desirably has a guiding system for a... | 06/14/2007 |
| 20060260522 | Automated planter An automated planter includes a locating device arranged to locate a propagation tray; at least one plant extraction device adapted to pull a plant out of a propagation tray located by the locating device; and a delivery assembly arranged to receive a plant extracted by... | 11/23/2006 |
| 20060130720 | Method and apparatus for transporting seedlings in a planting machine The invention relates to a seedling transportation process and apparatus (1) for a transplanting machine to be mounted on a planting vehicle. It includes a seedling tray transportation section that comprises means (35) for guiding and removing an empty tra... | 06/22/2006 |
| 20050016425 | Air-pruning tray/container matrix transfer and transplanting system and methods The present invention entails a plant/seedling/plug growing tray/container plants and their matrix transfer and transplanting systems and methods which includes trays/containers with a plurality of individual plant/seedling/plug cells/pots and manual, mechanical, pneuma... | 01/27/2005 |
| 20050016426 | Device for assisting transplanting of seedlings, machine incorporating the device, and method using the device Seedlings are typically grown in trays of soil plugs. Once the seedlings have attained a predetermined size, they may be transplanted to the ground for continued seedling growth and development. Several machines are known in the art, which allow automated seedling trans... | 01/27/2005 |
