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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7735572 | Carrier strip system and method for different diameter fasteners A carrier strip system includes a plurality of discrete carrier strips respectively receptive of fasteners of substantially different dimensions the strips having internal features configured to engage the fasteners, the strips further having substantially identical... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7381010 | System and method for removal of buried objects The present invention is a system and method for removal of buried objects. According to one embodiment of the invention, a crane with a vibrator casing driver is used to lift and suspend a large diameter steel casing over the buried object. Then the casing is drive... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7188336 | Multi-platform software interface and documentation generator An interface definition that specifies the functionality of humanly accessed functions within a software program is parsed into statements by a parser in conjunction with a dictionary. The parsed statements are converted to formatted statements by a plurality of for... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7104338 | Sweeper chain support system A sweeper chain support system for allowing efficient removal of debris between a sweeper chain and a digger chain. The sweeper chain support system includes a rear roller supporting a rear portion of a sweeper chain, a pair of rear arms attached to the rear roller ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7013982 | Range-master vehicle for safe recovery of ordnance and land mines This device is a vehicle for scraping earth from regions containing land mines or munitions. The scraped earth is separated into munitions and earth, the earth is allowed to exit the vehicle's scraper bowl. The munitions and land mines are retained in the scraper bo... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6540030 | Method for recovering waste in sandy beach Waste scattered on a sandy beach is recovered in a clean and efficient manner by using a beach cleaner of a simple structure. In a first waste recovery step, a first beach cleaner A is allowed to travel on a sandy beach while being towed by a self-traveli... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6419028 | Ground surface crop harvester and harvesting method A harvester for ground surface crops is an array of bars connected to cross-members, each bar having an obtuse-angulation toward the front end of the bar. The arrays describe surfaces which may be curved or substantially planar on either side of the obtus... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6024178 | Direct harvester device and method A direct harvester includes a cutting portion, a lifting portion and a feeding portion. The cutting portion typically includes a cutter rod for severing plant roots and a kicker rod for encouraging the plant to the soil surface. The lifting portion typica... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5966847 | Pneumatic excavator A portable excavator having a tube to point a supersonic gas stream at a buried object. The excavator includes a movable member disposed within the conduit to pulse gas passing through the conduit and a supersonic gas nozzle at the exit of the conduit. Co... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5775435 | Apparatus for separating potatoes from other materials An apparatus for separating potatoes from other materials such as soil, clods, stones, herbage, etc., particularly for potato harvesting machines, has a number of roller bodies, which are disposed side by side with parallel axes, form revolving groups dri... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5588494 | Crop inverter and method of using same A crop inverter is disclosed for digging and inverting crops, such as peanuts, which have pods disposed below the soil. The inverter typically includes a pair of rotating bars for severing the roots extending downwardly from the pods, and for lifting the ... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5577562 | Harvester for root crops and method of using same The stems and limbs of a root crop plant are lifted from the ground, folded over a gathering bar, and grasped by an auger-paddle. The roots below the crop are severed by a cutter bar which resembles a rod weeder. While the crop is held the soil beneath th... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5431231 | Harvester for root vegetables A harvester for root vegetables has a body, a pair of crawlers for supporting and moving the body, and an engine for driving the crawlers. A picker/conveyer device is longitudinally provided on the body and downwardly inclined for picking up root vegetabl... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5069292 | Method for soil clod/root crop separation A method and related apparatus is provided for size reduction and separation of soil clods mixed with a root crop. The method includes the steps of feeding the mixture along an enclosed operative path, manipulating the mixture so as to change the shape of... | 12/03/1991 |
| 4798248 | Method of harvesting beets During the first pass across a field of row-planted sugar or red beets, the apparatus digs the beets from a specific number of rows (six being illustrated but the apparatus herein disclosed can be structured for four or five rows as well), elevates the be... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4796711 | Apparatus for removing plastic film from raised plant beds An apparatus used in agriculture and more specifically to an apparatus for removing the plastic film cover from raised plant beds in which the edges thereof are tucked under soil placed in overlying relation to the downwardly inclined side edges of the pl... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4633955 | Digger for root crops A digger for root crops, such as peanuts, includes two or more digger units depended from a frame drafted by a tractor. Each digger unit includes a screw conveyor, a guide pair helically wrapped 180° around the screw conveyor, and a hydraulic motor to ro... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4607703 | Peanuts harvester and its harvesting method A peanuts harvester includes a truck body, plant row dividers, stalk straighteners, peanut diggers, a plant feeder, a tilted conveyer, a horizontal conveyer, a peanut stripper and a peanut collector such that the dug peanut plants are conveyed to the hori... | 08/26/1986 |
| 4166505 | Method and apparatus for harvesting green peanuts A method and apparatus for harvesting green peanuts comprising severing the peanut foliage from the peanuts which remain implanted in the ground by means of a vine cutting apparatus and plowing up the green peanuts and cleaning them by means of a novel co... | 09/04/1979 |
| 4060133 | Method for mechanically harvesting tomatoes Tomatoes are mechanically harvested by moving a mechanical harvester through a row of growing tomato plants, severing the plants below ground, and picking up the severed plants along with loose tomatoes and some dirt clods, while returning loose dirt to t... | 11/29/1977 |
| 4007794 | Top desiccation of crop plants The above-ground growth of potatoes and like root crops are contacted with high voltage electricity several days prior to harvesting, the electricity desiccating the above-ground portion of the crops while not harming the tubers. A no-load voltage of abou... | 02/15/1977 |
| 3990217 | Method of mechanically harvesting tomatoes In a tomato field in which the tomato plants are grown in a plurality of substantially parallel rows an apparatus is advanced along a predetermined one of the rows. The apparatus cuts the tomato plants in the row, carries the cut plants rearwardly and dis... | 11/09/1976 |
