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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7188447 | Machine for laying ground cover on seeded areas A machine that quickly lays a cover over a freshly seeded area and at the same time anchors the cover to the ground. The cover helps prevent moisture from escaping from the ground and holds the seeds in place during watering the area, during heavy rains and/or durin... | 03/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 5443023 | Seed furrow closing apparatus for agricultural planters A furrow closing apparatus for an agricultural planter producing an open seed furrow in the soil into which seeds are sequentially deposited, comprising a pair of rotary forks mountable on the planter on opposite sides of the open seed furrow and at a loc... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5226376 | Machine for laying agricultural plastic film An improvement in machines for laying agricultural plastic film is disclosed which provides means forcing the plastic film against the seed bed and inclined sides and bottom of oppositely situated furrows utilizing a forced air fan to blow air downwardly ... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5158411 | Seed planting device An improved device for planting seed in the soil, a sowing machine and combined machine for preparing a seedbed and for sowing using the device. According to the invention, an outside part of active part of a tool is provided which includes a carrying ele... | 10/27/1992 |
| 4953482 | Mulching and seeding apparatus and method with film severing and covering An agricultural machine and method for applying and securing a plastic film onto a seed bed. The machine includes a cutter that severs the plastic film at the end of a row or other area for which covering is desired, while covering the severed ends so as ... | 09/04/1990 |
| 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 |
| 4396068 | Soil preparation implement An upstanding housing is provided and mounted in trailing relation to a depending tool shank by generally horizontal upper and lower pivot links having their forward ends pivotally supported from the tool shank and their rear ends pivotally supported from... | 08/02/1983 |
| 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 |
| 4212254 | Tiller planter with modified seed bed finishing implement A tractor-drawn machine adapted to perform tilling, seed bed preparation, and planting in a single operation, comprises a frame from which plow units, a reel unit, a seed bed finishing implement and seed planting units are mounted seriatim. The attitude o... | 07/15/1980 |
| 4180005 | Tiller planter with modified soil leveling and pulverizing unit A tractor-drawn machine adapted to perform tilling, seed bed preparation, and planting in a single operation, comprises a frame from which plow units, a soil leveling and pulverizing unit, a seed bed finishing implement and seed planting units are mounted... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4057111 | Soil cultivating machines A soil cultivating machine has a row of driven rotatable soil working members and a tool bar at the rear thereof to which tools, such as seed drills can be attached. The machine is connectable to a tractor lift and the members are driven via a p.t.o. At l... | 11/08/1977 |
| 4057110 | Rotary harrows A harrow attachment has side-by-side rotary soil-working members mounted on upright axes journalled in a frame. A delivery mechanism with an elongated hopper and agitators and/or other feeding mechanisms can be connected to be rotatable and driven by the ... | 11/08/1977 |
| 4036304 | Wheel mounting for cultivator planter A self propelled apparatus providing a cultivator, planter units and fertilizer tanks. A traction wheel assembly composed of a plurality of wheels adapted to propel the entire apparatus forwardly by pushing. The plurality of traction wheels being mounted ... | 07/19/1977 |
