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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7360728 | Hay bale processor A hay bale processor (10) having a cylindrical rotatable drum (14) adapted to displace a bale of hay (156-157) over a grill (26) which has a plurality of spaced-apart parallel slot openings (27) which are adjustable to defin... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7341024 | Apparatus, method and business methods for processing animal waste in a farm building A mobile apparatus is used to process animal waste in a farm building and to spread the processed animal waste back on the floor of the farm building as the apparatus moves through the farm building. The apparatus includes a processing mechanism that heats the anima... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7331855 | Wide-spread impeller spreader for harvesting combine A chopper and wide-spread impeller spreader that feeds crop residue from the chopper into the spreader at a specific upward angle to more fully utilize the momentum the crop residue achieves in the chopper. The spreader incorporates air intake holes and air fins abo... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7322174 | Crop processor roll assembly A forage harvester is provided with a crop processor roll assembly that comprises a shaft and a removable crop processor roll having a fluted surface for cracking maize kernels. The roll has end plates, to which the shaft is connected by sleeves. The interior of the... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7186059 | Padding machine and method of use An integrated padding machine that incorporates a front digging auger that is preferably mechanically as opposed to hydraulically powered, which in conjunction with a breaker bar assembly provides for digging and crushing capabilities, and that incorporates several ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7174660 | Snow removing machine A snow removing machine has an auger for plowing and collecting snow, a rotatable blower for throwing snow collected by the auger, and a shooter for guiding the snow thrown by the blower so that the snow reaches a selected point. The blower has a central shaft part ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7156333 | Bale processor with fork lift An apparatus for disintegrating bales of agricultural materials such as hay. The apparatus includes a processing tub and is provided with a novel adjustable fork-lift adapted to raise bales of different size and configuration into the processing tub. ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7100647 | Forestry machine A forestry machine with devices for felling, trimming and cutting trees includes a control system with operating devices which are actuable by an operator. The operating devices control the felling, trimming and cutting devices, as well as the movements of the fores... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7086445 | Cover for an elongate opening Waste materials are composted in an elongate pit which is maintained covered to retain odors. The pit includes two rails each arranged along a respective side of the opening for receiving operating machines and a carriage for supplying a covering sheet. Each side ed... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7044233 | Combined digger and mushroom compost compacting assembly A combined digger and compost compacting assembly comprises a digger unit and a compacting unit. The digger unit has a drive shaft which includes a plurality of outwardly extending digger tines for digging into the compost in a mushroom bed as the assembly is moved ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7017842 | Bale manipulator drive system for a bale processor A bale processor with a processing chamber includes a manipulator driven by a drive system that includes a hydraulic motor. The hydraulic motor of the drive system drives a drive shaft with an axis of rotation offset from a driven shaft of the manipulator. A rotatio... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6948669 | Apparatus for mixing and aerating material This invention generally relates to reduction drive assemblies and, more particularly, to belt and pulley reduction drive assemblies and related support structure for portable equipment to mix and aerate materials. The support structure is adapted to provide support... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6918238 | Preloadable, externally installable and removable bearing and shaft assembly An externally installable and removable bearing and shaft assembly for supporting an end of a rotatable member for rotation relative to a support member or structure, which when installed, applies an axial preload force against a shaft of the assembly, for reducing ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6634581 | Field shredder with a friction base A field shredder comprises a friction base, a housing, a rotatable blade drum provided in the housing and having a rotary axis, and a plurality of blades attached to the blade drum, which cooperate with the friction base to finely chop harvested material.... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6588691 | Mobile document shredder with retractable loading tunnel and load cell A mobile shredding system is used mounted on a vehicle. The system has a hopper, for receiving material to be shredded, a shredder communicating with the hopper, and a holding space for shredded waste into which the shredder feeds shredded material. A bin... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6499681 | Crushing device in a crusher of an earthmover for crushing chunks of concrete into fine pieces A crushing device in a crusher includes a bucket-shaped body frame; plural ring members provided in the body frame in such a manner as to form steps at predetermined spaced intervals while diminishing their sizes gradually from the upper position toward t... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6237865 | Apparatus for screening and/or crushing screen materials Apparatus for screening and/or crushing screen materials, includes a bucket articulated to an excavating machine and swingable about a horizontal rotation axis. The bucket has a back wall formed as a screening bottom and supporting screening shafts provid... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6131837 | Segmented crop processor roll for forage harvester A pull type forage harvester including a header, a cylindrical cutter head having rotating knives operatively associated with a shearbar, feed rolls for receiving crop material from the header and conveying it to the cutterhead, and a blower remotely loca... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6109552 | Agricultural feed bag unloading apparatus An apparatus for unloading compacted agricultural feed from an elongated storage bag of the type formed from sheet plastic material. The apparatus includes a wheeled framework having a front part for facing an open end of the bag and a transversely extend... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6102312 | Rotary hammer mill A rotary hammer mill for breaking, cutting and crushing frangible or fracturable solid materials. The hammer is formed by a shaft rotatable about a horizontal, longitudinal axis. A plurality of swinging hammers are aligned along the shaft and each is posi... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6088968 | Baled insulation material blowing apparatus and method A wheeled system and a method for installing insulation from bound insulation bales. At least one movable wall that continually moves unbound insulation bales by a drive means toward a dispensing end of the base where shredding of the insulation from the ... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6082647 | Mounted chopper in a combine harvester A combine harvester has a mounted chopper with a wide-distributor discharge, designed such that the need for impeller blowers for distributing the chopped material across the entire cutting width of the combine harvester is eliminated. In the mounted chop... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6070816 | Straw chopper A straw chopper arrangement for an agricultural combine wherein the chopper is provided two vertically arranged rotors. The rotors are provided with a number of circumferentially spaced radially extending impeller blades. The outer ends of the impeller bl... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6052978 | Ensilage harvester variable speed feed roll drive A drive transmission for the feed rolls of a forage harvester includes a planetary gear set arranged such that an input shaft drives the sun gear while a further input shaft is provided by a reversible, variable speed motor that is connected to the ring g... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5950938 | Method and apparatus for treatment of hay before dried on spot A fixed roller is laterally axially supported by a movable body so as to ow an axial center line of the fixed roller to extend in parallel to a lateral direction, and driven to rotate an upper peripheral surface of the fixed roller backward, and a plural... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5875980 | Traveling rock crusher A traveling rock crusher has a vehicle body adapted to travel along the ground in a horizontal travel direction, a drum mounted at a front end of the body and rotatable about a horizontal axis generally perpendicular to the direction, an array of radially... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5865589 | Bale feeder The present invention provides a bale feeder for breaking down large cylindrical bales of hay and like animal feeds and spreading it in rows for feeding. The bale feeder comprises a feeder body, a bale lifting means for lifting and positioning a bale with... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5863005 | Forage harvester including selectively operable crop processing and conveyor arrangements A forage harvester includes a crop processing arrangement as well as a conveyor arrangement which can be selectively positioned in respective operating positions in a cutout in the duct extending between the crop chopping assembly and the blower for disch... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5823707 | Self-propelled remote-controlled stone crusher designed to operate inside trenches A self-propelled stone crusher includes systems designed to operate the various machine functions by remote control (30), for operating on open ground or inside trenches, collecting and crushing rocks and stones which are then unloaded and levelled behind... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5806685 | Confinement house cleaner An apparatus for use in cleaning confinement houses, to be pulled within the confinement house by a small tractor, providing motive force to the apparatus and to its components, is constructed on a wheeled frame, the front of which is connected to the tra... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5803379 | Composting apparatus An improved composting apparatus is provided which includes a rotating drum and paddle assembly which generates a plurality of air streams to mix and aerate the composting material. The composting apparatus is configurable for being for being towed withou... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5788168 | Self-loading mobile crusher system A self-loading mobile crusher system for reducing the size of debris disposed in a pile includes a vehicle having first and second sides adapted for movement on the surface of the debris pile. The vehicle includes first and second surface engaging devices... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5676320 | Mobile tire shredder A motor truck for use in collecting and processing solid waste material such as scrap tires. The truck includes a chassis including a cab; a body structure positioned on the chassis behind the cab and defining a storage chamber; a shredder mounted on top ... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5664907 | Apparatus and method for removing and pulverizing steel reinforced pavement A self-propelled pavement remover removes and pulverizes concrete reinforced with steel rod. The machine drives a wedge under the pavement to lift it up and feed it into a hammer mill. The hammer mill pulverizes both the concrete and steel rod into a comp... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5653394 | Disintegration of baled crop materials Apparatus for disintegrating bales comprises a hopper with vertical end walls and two side walls which converge inwardly and downwardly to a part cylindrical base portion extending longitudinally of the hopper. The upper face of the hopper defined at the ... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5645232 | Tank cleaning apparatus and method A knockdown tank-cleaning apparatus that is easily broken down and reassembled is provided. The tank-cleaning apparatus, when knocked down, easily fits through a standard man-way opening in the side of the tank. The tank-cleaning apparatus includes a knoc... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5622320 | Foilage compactor apparatus A foliage compactor includes an impeller assembly supported on a frame and including an enclosure having an inlet and an outlet, and an impeller supported for rotation within the enclosure to produce suction at the inlet and positive pressure at the outle... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5560551 | High speed skip hoist system A high speed skip hoist handles heavy payloads, such as bulk solids, and includes a bucket for handling the bulk material and a control system which regulates the acceleration and deceleration of the payload as it moves between a first position to a secon... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5558282 | Crop discharge means for a forage harvester A forage harvester comprises a rotatable cutterhead (36), operable to comminute crop material and to deliver the same to a blower assembly (48, 49), which propels the material upwardly into a duct (52), which in turn directs it into a collecting vehicle, ... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5544822 | Hay cutter with fork lift A hay cutter and fork lift implement are mounted on the three point hitch of a tractor with a hydraulic cylinder interconnecting the inner ends of the hay cutter assembly and the fork lift assembly for applying equal and opposite pressure on each, such th... | 08/13/1996 |
