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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5255617 | Ridge preparation tool for seed planting equipment The ridge preparation tool is adapted to be attached to a seed planter directly ahead of the trench-forming structure of the planter so as to skim off the crest of the ridge for the production of a clean, relatively narrow strip of prepared soil in which ... | 10/26/1993 |
| 4964351 | Dry soil spreader for disk furrow opener In an agricultural drill having a frame plurality of pairs of furrow opening disk equipped supporting arms and pressure wheels are connected in trailing relation with the frame. A dry soil parting share is vertically adjustably connected with the respecti... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4762075 | Seed/fertilizer minimum tillage planter Apparatus for seed and fertilizer placement in the ground comprises a knife followed immediately by a first tube for depositing fertilizer and a second tube spaced therefrom for depositing the seed. The second tube can be adjusted horizontally and vertica... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4760804 | Air injection cultivator A cultivator has a blade downwardly projected from a frame, an injector provided at a lower portion of the blade, a compressor mounted on the frame and an air tank for storing air compressed by the compressor. An unloading valve provided in a hydraulic ci... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4750441 | Furrow opening assembly A towable, furrow opening assembly has an intermediate opener and delivery tubes for deposit of materials such as seed into the opened furrow, together with a trailing press wheel and an aligned, leading wheel such that furrow depth is controlled by the w... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4745978 | Mounting arrangement for a coulter and knife A mounting arrangement for a coulter and knife which are mounted on separate collars on a vertical shank with the knife movable in the same vertical plane as the coulter including a locking mechanism which connects the mounting collars of the knife and co... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4726303 | Zero-till drill This invention is directed to a novel zero-till seed drill which has a shortened wheel base and can thus closely follow the contours of a field which is being seeded, is capable of being raised and lowered at the beginning and end of each pass on the fiel... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4671193 | Planting tool A planting tool especially for minimum tillage operations has a leading rolling coulter and an elongated, rigid knife behind the coulter to hold open a slot cut in the soil by the coulter. Blades mounted on the vertical knife cut lateral slices in the soi... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4601248 | Minimum tillage planting apparatus A minimum tillage planting apparatus includes a soil conditioning device comprising a coulter for cutting through surface residue and slicing into the soil, a plow element behind and in alignment with the coulter for penetrating and lifting the soil, and ... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4596200 | Row crop planter A row crop planter unit (12) has seed trench forming dixc openers (31, 32) followed by a pair of equalizer mounted planter unit support and gauge wheels (50, 64) having slicing discs (61, 66) secured to the laterally inner sides serving to cut the banks o... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4574715 | Agricultural fertilizer applicator An improved fertilizer applicator includes a rolling coulter and a knife both mounted to a single tool bar mount but with separate spring cushions for independent clearing action and designed for improved clearance suitable for use in heavy residue.... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4562780 | Trash farming means and method A trash farming implement is provided with a plurality of tillage assemblies on an implement, each tillage assembly having a tillage disc arranged to rotate about an axis which is inclined slightly from the vertical both in end elevation and in side eleva... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4550122 | Attachment for removing residue in front of a planter An attachment for a minimum tillage planter which is mounted forwardly of the planting shoe for removing residue from in front of such planting apparatus for the purpose of allowing consistency in the making of a trench and for the depositing of seeds the... | 10/29/1985 |
| 4506609 | Trash seeder An agricultural implement for seed planting having a series of independent planter units at the rear of a frame with the planter units connected to the frame in such a manner that the press wheels of the planter units form the rear wheels of the implement... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4502547 | Soil working device with cleaner The presence of rank vegetation or loose crop residue on the soil surface (straw, maize stalks etc.) is always troublesome to ploughs, cultivators, seed drills and other agricultural implements required to slice vertically through and penetrate the soil. ... | 03/05/1985 |
| 4466364 | Planter attachment The invention relates to agricultural implements for planting. Increased efficiency of planting in general and incorporating fertilizer in particular in no-till situations is achieved by frame, disk and knife assemblies (14, 15, 16) mounting a disk (44) i... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4461355 | Cultivator row unit with ridger/bedder implement An inter-row crop cultivator for use particularly in severe residue conditions such as in minimum tillage conservation applications is disclosed. A leading gauge wheel providing support and soil surface tracking is immediately trailed by two laterally dis... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4409912 | Agronomic implement A cultivating implement include a soil working tool having an elongate substantially planar blade. The blade extends sidewardly and downwardly at an acute angle to the vertical so that its plane is substantially parallel to the direction of movement throu... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4407371 | Coulter attachment for seed planting apparatus Apparatus is disclosed which facilitates the ready attachment and detachment of coulters to a standard seed planting device. The seed planting device is typically of a type that is towed behind a tractor and automatically furrows the ground, deposits the ... | 10/04/1983 |
| 4377979 | Conservation tillage row crop planter system The planter includes a number of forward tillage units each followed by an aligned planting unit. Both units are independently mounted by four-bar linkages to the planter frame. Each tillage unit includes a leading banded coulter followed by a pair of rol... | 03/29/1983 |
| 4338872 | Multiple section grain drill A multiple section grain drill has a main frame with a transverse segment; a grain container mounted on the frame for receiving grain; an auger mounted on the main frame and in communication with the grain in the container for bidirectionally moving the g... | 07/13/1982 |
| 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 |
| 4214537 | Grain drill furrow opening assembly A seed drill has a frame, a transverse hopper and a series of triple disc coulters mounted on the frame below the hopper. The coulters are each mounted on the frame by a parallelogram linkage which maintains the proper relative positions of the front and ... | 07/29/1980 |
| 4196679 | Disc opener and adjustable seed tube assembly Apparatus for preparing and seeding ground in which seeds from a seedbox mounted on a frame assembly for connection to a towing vehicle are delivered through seed tubes to slits which are cut and opened in the ground by a plurality of disc mounted on the ... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4191262 | Agriculture light tillage implement and tool mounting mechanism therefor A light soil tillage implement is adapted to be drawn by a farm tractor, and is designed to perform a light tillage immediately preceeding fertilizing, planting, and/or other farming operations. The implement comprises a frame having support wheels thereo... | 03/04/1980 |
| 4187916 | Soil conditioning and seed bed preparing apparatus Soil conditioning apparatus is disclosed which has a front coulter assembly, preferably with a fluted coulter, for preparing a narrow path wider than the following subsoiler shank by cutting trash and breaking and slitting the topsoil. Following the front... | 02/12/1980 |
| 4149475 | Seed and fertilizer drill with spring loaded coulters counter-mounted on vertically adjustable beam Seed drill has a row of coulters which are raised and lowered by a beam positioned above the coulters and connected to the coulters by spring assemblies. The beam is journalled for pivotal movement about its longitudinal axis and the spring assemblies are... | 04/17/1979 |
| 4141302 | Furrow opener and apparatus for no-tillage transplanters and planters A new apparatus for opening furrows in soil is disclosed. Specifically, this apparatus consists of an opening mechanism, a closing mechanism, an automatic seed planting mechanism, an automatic seedling planting mechanism, a driving means, a towing means, ... | 02/27/1979 |
| 4135457 | Seed drilling units A towable seed drilling unit of the kind having a hopper-fed seed chamber whose base is constituted by a proportion of the lower run of an endless belt driven by a belt drive roller in a direction contrary to towing direction from a ground-contacting whee... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4070974 | Disc trench filler for a no-till planter A disc-like device, the peripheral edge of which is formed in a plurality of oppositely turned curved segments is attached to a no-till planter as used in planting seed crops in fields which have not been plowed. The disc-like device is arranged to follow... | 01/31/1978 |
| 4055126 | Sub-soil breaking, surface-soil conditioning and planter machine In a preferred embodiment of the invention, a trailer-like multi-sectioned frame is mounted on supporting spaced-apart wheels adjustable intermittently of the height of the frame and having mounted on the various sections of the frame, functional elements... | 10/25/1977 |
| 4029028 | Device for metering granular material A metering device is described which provides for very accurate metering of granular material such as seeds or fertilizer. The device incorporates two main components: a solid casing having a slot with an open side and decreasing cross-section, and a corr... | 06/14/1977 |
