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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7909687 | Device and method for stripping leaves from herbs and plants A device and method for stripping leaves from the stems of herbs and plants and a method of stripping leaves using the device. The device includes a container that supports a lower plate carrying a number of closely spaced flexible tines. An upper plate is pivotally... | 03/22/2011 |
| 6510679 | Harvesting machine, especially a self-propelled pick-up chopper A harvesting machine, especially a self-propelled pick-up chopper for picking up and chopping corn, wilted grass, green feed and similar harvested material includes a feeding housing, which is disposed ahead of a chopping device and accommodates feeding r... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6044636 | Corn harvester A farm implement for harvesting corn (sometimes called maize). The harvester is usable with a farm type combine and is particularly designed to be used in fields that have been planted either by a broadcast method at ground level or from the air, or in cl... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5463856 | Whole stalk sugar cane harvester that tops, cuts, cleans and loads The invention provides self propelled harvester that tops, cuts, cleans and oads "whole stalk green sugar cane". The canes are flexed forward by the movement of the harvester by means of a roller, while the base is cut with a pair of counter rotating disk cutte... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5331980 | Tobacco stripper apparatus A tobacco stripper includes coplanar first and second stripper plates having confronting semi-cylindrical recesses coaxial relative to one another. The first stripper plate is arranged in a spring-biased relationship for contiguous communication with the ... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5044115 | Floral stem cleaner and method of cleaning floral stems A flower stem cleaning device includes a body through which a cleaning opening extends. The opening is defined by a flexible surface portion of the body to prevent damage to the plant stems. A slit extends between the opening and a perimeter edge of the b... | 09/03/1991 |
| 5026322 | Threshing device The device has a first threshing rotor bearing a first number of radial blades, and a second counter-rotating loading rotor having a different number of radial blades. The rotors are arranged side by side and adapted to be driven in phase at different spe... | 06/25/1991 |
| 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 |
| 4509536 | Tobacco stripper Two gears or cogwheels rotating in opposite directions and constructed so that the cogs of each fit most of the way, but not all of the way, in to the grooves or notches of the other, but not enough to intermesh or completely fill the gaps to strip leaves... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4493330 | Tobacco stripper and grading machine A device for grading and stripping tobacco leaves or the like from its associated stalk which includes a supporting instrumentality for holding the stalk and a plurality of partitions defining both the stalk support and the areas of demarcation between on... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4455814 | Seed harvester A seed harvester is provided for harvesting seeds from a standing crop without cutting the crop. The harvester is particularly designed for harvesting grass seed. The harvester includes a header assembly for stripping from the crop, and a seed separator f... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4373323 | Tobacco leaf stripper A tobacco stripper has a pair of counter-rotating gear belts which are used to separate tobacco leaves from tobacco stalks when the stalk is advanced into a nip formed by the counter-rotating belts.... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4232506 | Method and apparatus for recovering tomatoes from severed vines, employing a rotated and oscillated shaker Method and apparatus for mechanically removing tomatoes from their vines after the vines have been severed from their roots and lifted aboveground. The severed and lifted vines are fed in between a rotary shaker and stationary guides, for example, a rotar... | 11/11/1980 |
| 4149544 | Device for stripping and sorting out plant leaves, particularly of tobacco plants A process for stripping and sorting out the leaves of a plant such as a tobacco plant, comprising the steps of introducing the plant in a stripping element, displacing the assembly formed by the plant and its stripping element in relation to the feed stat... | 04/17/1979 |
