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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4395846 | Arrangement in boxes holding cellular compartments An arrangement in boxes holding cellular compartments intended to nurse preferably forest tree seedlings until they are ready to be transplanted. The cellular compartment walls consist of paper, pasteboard or similar material coated on one side with plast... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4388035 | Dibble tube soil plug planter A planter is moved through a field to place two rows of four plants on the top of a planting bed between adjacent irrigation furrows. Plants ready for transplant are disposed in trays within polymerized cast soil plugs. Each plug is disposed within the tr... | 06/14/1983 |
| 4355588 | Transplanting machine A machine for transplanting soil plugs with great uniformity and a minimum of manual labor comprising a conveyor having a plurality of soil plug gripping mechanisms mounted thereto, a furrow opening device, and a furrow closing device. The furrow closing ... | 10/26/1982 |
| 4294179 | Dibble tube soil plug planter A planter is moved through a field to place two rows of four plants on the top of a planting bed between adjacent irrigation furrows. The tray carrying the transplants is registered horizontally and vertically to a plug receiving cylinder by respective ca... | 10/13/1981 |
| 4290373 | Seedling tranplanter A tractor towed seedling transplanter includes a main frame with a pair of canted rear wheels, a rearwardly facing operator's seat and a tray for storing a supply of seedlings to be transplanted. A power take-off from the wheels operates a rotary metering... | 09/22/1981 |
| 4289080 | High-speed transplanter A high-speed transplanter is described for mechanical transplanting of seedlings in grow blocks formed into easily handled modules. The transplanter includes cutting blades for separating the modules into files, delivery tubes for downwardly moving the fi... | 09/15/1981 |
| 4253411 | Machine for transplanting seedlings from coiled cassettes The present invention includes a platform with a cassette for seedlings which is vertically arranged on a frame, and provided with an inclined groove for retaining the cassette the coils of which are engaged throughout the entire length. A roller is provi... | 03/03/1981 |
| 4231186 | Group of pots for nursing and replanting plants A group of enclosures for nursing and replanting plants is disclosed comprising several parallel rows of enclosures wherein each two adjoining rows of enclosures have a common wall construction. This wall permits the flow of nutrients and water through th... | 11/04/1980 |
| 4215513 | Field transplant systems and methods and components thereof A field transplant system including a machine for sequentially forming groups of polymerized soil plugs having seed receiving recesses in one end thereof and supported on a carrier, and in certain cases interconnected by strips, the carrier being used to ... | 08/05/1980 |
| 4167911 | Apparatus for separation and transplanting paper tube seedlings from a continuous paper tube seedling assembly The present invention relates to a method wherein seedlings, raised in a paper tube assembly connected together by means of connecting portions having a separating line forming the separation course in each, are continuously pulled out while separating th... | 09/18/1979 |
| 4167910 | Transplanting apparatus for depositing plants directly from a supply tape into an inclined furrow Supporting the forward end of a mobile frame is a rotatable drum having a number of sawtooth-shaped or beveled ribs extending circumferentially around the drum. Owing to the sawtooth configuration of the circumferential ribs, each rib opens a furrow havin... | 09/18/1979 |
| 4156395 | High-speed planting method and machine A high-speed planting method and machine in which a plurality of plants are provided in a plurality of webs. The webs are flexible and each web carries a plurality of plants fixed in an array of a plurality of adjacent rows and substantially perpendicular... | 05/29/1979 |
| 4132337 | Continuous paper cylinder assembly and method of separating the same and transplanting apparatus for the same The present invention relates to a method wherein seedlings, raised in a paper cylinder assembly connected together by means of connecting portions having a separating line forming the separation course in each are continuously pulled out while separating... | 01/02/1979 |
| 4130072 | Field transplant systems and methods and components thereof A field transplant system including a machine for sequentially forming groups of polymerized soil plugs having seed receiving recesses in one end thereof and supported on a carrier, and in certain cases interconnected by strips, the carrier being used to ... | 12/19/1978 |
| 4122784 | Method and apparatus for the regeneration of lawn surfaces in particular of grass sport pitches A wheel supported chassis has a motor driving it intermittently across a lawn or turf surface for predetermined distances between cycles, a drilling means drills holes in the turf area while the apparatus is stationary, a collecting platform feeds tubular... | 10/31/1978 |
