...that the first rickshaw was invented in 1869 by an American Baptist minister, the Rev. E. Jonathan Scobie, to transport his invalid wife around the streets of Yokohama?
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7140112 | Head cover trimming system A head cover trimming system for trimming around a ground level head cover includes a head cap and a grass trimmer assembly. The head cap is provided on the head cover and includes a centering member. The grass trimmer assembly includes a head member having a periph... | 11/28/2006 |
| 6957300 | Reducing delay of command completion due to overlap condition Method and apparatus for transferring data between a host device and a data storage device having a first memory space and a second memory space. The host issues access commands to store and retrieve data. The device stores commands in the first memory space pending... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6662880 | Traveling rolling digger for sequential hole drilling and for producing sequential cultivated spots in soil A traveling rolling digger for sequential hole drilling or for producing sequential cultivated spots in soil. The traveling rolling digger includes at least one drilling shaft which is rotatable by a drive mechanism about a longitudinal shaft axis and has... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6227317 | Garden auger having wings and cutters A garden auger having an auger blade with a substantially rectangular body section for use with a drill motor. The preferred auger body including toed-in wings for rapidly clearing earth from the created hole and cutters formed at one end of the auger bla... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6164384 | Method for producing a plurality of cultivated spots for planting of trees and a rolling spot cultivator A method and apparatus for producing a plurality of spaced apart cultivated spots in soil. A spot cultivator (1) is moved across the soil in a direction in which the spaced apart cultivated spots are to be formed. The spot cultivator (1) includes at least... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6125776 | Device for digging planting holes for bedding plants and the like A device for digging holes for setting out bedding plants, including a rotary tool for digging a hole, the tool having a shank adapted to be chucked to a power drill and passing through an inverted bowl shaped transparent plastic cover to contain excavate... | 10/03/2000 |
| 4957391 | Apparatus for setting marker plugs To permit an efficient and inexpensive setting of marker plugs for ground marking, a setting apparatus is provided, which is mounted on an intermittently operable chassis and comprises a piercer, a plug magazine and a plug setter, wherein the piercer lead... | 09/18/1990 |
| 4911089 | Method of and means for positioning root control bags The invention relates to a method of and a machine for substantially automatically positioning root control bags in the ground. The method includes the steps of excavating soil to form a trench, positioning root control bags, supported by formers, in the ... | 03/27/1990 |
| 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 |
| 4026225 | Machine for planting trees, shrubs and the like A horizontal frame coupled to a tractor is provided with a single disc mounted for rotation about a horizontal axis on the center line of the frame and driven by the power take off shaft of a tractor with the disc carrying a plurality of cutter teeth whic... | 05/31/1977 |