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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7673570 | Row-clearing unit for agricultural implement An agricultural row-clearing unit for use with an agricultural row unit attached to a towing frame hitched to a tractor comprises an attachment frame adapted to be rigidly connected to the towing frame, a support element having a leading end pivotally connected to t... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7392754 | Down pressure adjuster for seed planter A down pressure adjustment mechanism for a planter provides a self-contained spring cartridge holding a preloaded compression spring that may be moved between a limited number of mounting points to provide for convenient and significant changes in down pressure with... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7297186 | Tethered, inflatable holder for flowable material A flexible bag for receiving flowable material is suspended, as from a gantry, and is tethered transversely and yet has substantially free movement along three sides for complete filling. The length of the tethers may be selected to prevent complete collapse of the ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 6935255 | Auxiliary seed hopper having a removable screen A pneumatic seed on demand delivery system comprises a frame having a main hopper and an individual planting unit. An air pump directs pressurized air to a nozzle located at the base of the main hopper. The seed in the main hopper is taken up by the air stream passi... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6935254 | Split seed hoppers for seed on demand seeding machine A seeding machine comprising a transversely extending main frame and left and right transversely extending wing frames. The main frame and the wing frames are provided with a plurality of planting units. Left and right main seed hoppers are mounted to the main frame... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6675728 | Vented mini-hopper for bulk feed particle delivery system A particulate distribution apparatus for receiving seed or other particulate from a pneumatic source and temporarily storing the seed for subsequent use by a metering device where the particulate is characterized by a particulate size, the apparatus compr... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6595148 | Individual seed hoppers forming banks of seed hoppers A seeding machine is provided with banks of individual seed hoppers for directing seed to auxiliary seed hoppers located on individual planting units. The individual seed hoppers of each bank are provided with adjoining walls. The adjoining walls have not... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6581532 | Baffle for unit hopper A seeding machine having a main seed hopper is in communication with a planting unit by a flexible tube. The planting unit has a horizontal working position and a vertical transport position. The main hopper supplies seed by gravity to the planting unit t... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6308645 | Seeding machine with bulk seed supply container and independent, opener-mounted metering devices A seeding machine has a common, bulk seed container that supplies a number of independent openers, each of which is provided with its own separate metering device. Each metering device is gravity-fed through a telescoping supply tube connected between the... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6230636 | Agricultural machine Disclosed is a cultivator mounted to roll about a horizontal axis transverse to the direction of travel of the machine in combination with a hopper. The cultivator and hopper are mounted on a frame which is adapted to be connected to a three-point hitch o... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6035942 | Full truss tool bar A full truss tool bar is disclosed comprising an elongated main tool bar section having right and left tool bar wing sections positioned at the right and left ends of the main tool bar section. An elongated main truss member is positioned above the main t... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5709271 | Agricultural planter An agricultural planter comprises a frame with a plurality of wheels and adapted to be towed by a tractor. The planter has a plurality of row planting units mounted on the frame and carrying planting implements, and the planting units are vertically movab... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5479992 | Agricultural implement controller to compensate for soil hardness variation An apparatus for generating a signal indicative of the hardness of soil. The apparatus has a frame to be moved relative to soil on which a hardness analysis is to be conducted and a sensing element mounted to the frame so that the sensing element engages ... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5361712 | Cultivating apparatus for leveling, cultivating, and resowing lawns or fields Cultivating apparatus for leveling, cultivating, and resowing lawns or fields. The cultivating apparatus includes: a row of ripping tines arrayed across the front of the apparatus, which are arranged to freely pivot forward and upward in use, to release c... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5072676 | Hoppers for planters A multi-row seed planter has a seed hopper for each row and may also have a herbicide and/or insecticide hopper for each row. The hoppers have generally rectangular top openings the rims of which are tubular in cross-section and referred to as "perimeter ... | 12/17/1991 |
| 5024173 | Clutch for chemical dispenser for planter A clutch arrangement for a particulate chemical meter for use in a planter includes an axially and rotationally moveable shaft having a coupler on a first end and a knob on a second end thereof. The clutch shaft is inserted through and coupled to a chain-... | 06/18/1991 |
| 4359952 | Planter quick attachable granular chemical hopper assembly A planter having a frame, a drive train supported from the frame and having a forward end adapted to be connected to a drive and the other end having drive structure rotatably supported on the frame, the frame also having a pair of laterally spaced horizo... | 11/23/1982 |
| 4059160 | Rotary harrows A rotary harrow has a transverse frame, including an elongated hollow beam, and rotatable soil working tined members are mounted on upwardly extending shafts journalled in the beam. A supporting elongated roller has arms that adjustably connect to the fra... | 11/22/1977 |
| 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 |
| 4042041 | Rotary harrows A rotary harrow has soil-working members that are protected and, to some extent, supported from the ground by an elongated transverse beam that is pivoted to the front of the frame. The beam is spring biased to an operative location adjacent the soil-work... | 08/16/1977 |
| 3999690 | Metering apparatus for a seed planter An improved seed metering apparatus for use in a seed planter of the type having a seed storage hopper and a drop chute for depositing seeds into an underlying furrow comprises a rotatably driven seed metering disc having a plurality of seed receiving poc... | 12/28/1976 |
