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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6851484 | Wheel track filling apparatus A novel and practical track-filling apparatus for smoothing rutted soil formed by the repeated passage of wheels. This apparatus includes a frame, a system for attaching the frame to a tractor, and a soil moving blade assembly mounted to the frame. This blade assemb... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6321667 | Adjustable gauge wheel for a planter An agricultural planting machine having a frame, a pair of opposite furrow forming disks rotatably mounted on the frame on intersecting axes and a pair of gauge wheel assemblies mounted on the frame respectively adjacent the opposite sides of the pair of ... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6182385 | Rock and material loading system A rock and material loading system that is removably attachable to a loader bucket for loading material such as rocks into the loader bucket. The inventive device includes a pair of brackets attached to the upper rear portion of a loader bucket, a pair of... | 02/06/2001 |
| 5787991 | Adjustable angle ridger for a cultivator An adjustable ridger for a cultivator includes an elongated ridger frame adapted to mount to the sweep member of the cultivator. The frame has a top bracket with an elongated slot extending therethrough. The slot has a width and a longitudinal axis. A plu... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5544709 | Down pressure spring adjustment A series of notches are provided in the upright plates on one end of a parallel bar linkage connecting a cultivator rig or planter assembly to a tool bar. Coil springs are tensioned between the opposite end of the linkage and a rod and trunnion assembly t... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5427038 | Adjustable gauge wheel for a planter An agricultural planting machine has a pair of adjacent furrow opening disks that form a V-shaped furrow as the machine advances and a pair of ground engaging gauge wheels respectively mounted for rotation adjacent the opposite sides of the opening disks.... | 06/27/1995 |
| 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 |
| 4784227 | Agricultural implements Agricultural tilling implements are described. In some embodiments the implements are adapted for deep tilling of soil between growing row crops, in which embodiments a horizontal shield member is detachable secured to a depending shank. The front edge of... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4766962 | Furrow forming apparatus for attachment to a tool bar A furrow forming apparatus for a seed planter is disclosed wherein the construction facilitates convenient adjustment of spring-biasing exerted on furrow forming disks of the assembly. The apparatus includes a parallel linkage which permits relative verti... | 08/30/1988 |
| 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 |
| 4319645 | Variable speed plow with moldboard pivoting about a forward vertical pivot axis A variable speed plow bottom has a moldboard structure (37) pivotally connected to a fixed portion which includes a frog (14) and a share (17). The pivotable moldboard structure (37) includes an arm (53) whose forward end (52) is pivotally journaled on a ... | 03/16/1982 |
| 4051903 | Soil cultivating machines A cultivating machine has one or more working members that are driven to rotate about upwardly extending axes. Each working member is connected to a drive transmission to turn and, spaced apart soil working members mounted for free rotation about respecti... | 10/04/1977 |
| 4050519 | Soil cultivating machines A soil cultivating machine has soil working members that are driven about upwardly extending axes. Each working member has radial arms and a tined cultivating rotor is pivotably connected to the outer end of each arm. Each cultivating rotor is freely rota... | 09/27/1977 |
