"The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys."
Sir William Preece, chief engineer, British Post Office ; 1878
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7175520 | Cab arrangement for harvesting combine A cab arrangement for a harvesting combine includes a harvesting combine having a body and a cab spaced-apart from the body. A platform is positioned between the cab and the body. The cab, the boy, and the platform define a passageway to allow an operator to visuall... | 02/13/2007 |
| 6875103 | Apparatus and method for installing and removing a harvesting combine rotor An apparatus for installing and removing a harvesting combine rotor includes a harvesting combine having a frame portion. A linkage assembly is operatively connected to the frame portion A cab is operatively connected to the linkage assembly to allow the cab to be r... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6800025 | Combine air system for cleanout A pressurized air cleaning system is provided for a harvesting apparatus having a grain tank for holding harvested crop. The cleaning system can include an air manifold and tubing network for receiving pressurized air and distributing the pressurized air to an outle... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6097425 | Device for monitoring overloading of products from working machine to transporting vehicle A device for overloading products from a working machine having a driver's stand to a transporting vehicle has an overloading unit provided in the working machine, and a monitor assembly for monitoring overloading of the product from the working machine t... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6036597 | Combine harvester rotor load control The threshing cylinder or rotor of a combine harvester is driven by a rotor hydraulic motor. A rotor pump, driven by an internal combustion engine supplies hydraulic fluid to the rotor hydraulic motor to drive the rotor. A variable speed traction drive pr... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5993312 | Agricultural vehicle cab automatic temperature control system A combine including an improved HVAC control system. The frame of the combine supports an operator cab, a harvesting head and the other operational systems of the combine. The control system includes an operator control and a heat exchanger located in the... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5779542 | Nylatron support bearing for cage A grain combine for threshing grain from crop has a threshing rotor within a rotor housing, a front plate with a crop entry hole, a stationary ring mounted on the rearward side of the front plate, a plastic bearing pad mounted on the outer surface of the ... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5584167 | Working vehicle A tracked agricultural combine vehicle for harvesting, hulling and sorting grain includes integrated control means for left and right side propulsion track assemblies wherein individual track steering commands in the form of differential track speed contr... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5569079 | Device for sampling grain A portable device as disclosed for threshing grain to obtain a sample to be tested, for example, for its moisture content, disease, and protein content. The grain sampling device includes a housing with a handle enabling the device to be carried, an inlet... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5538472 | Agricultural vehicle cab temperature control system A combine including an improved HVAC control system is disclosed herein. The frame of the combine supports an operator cab, a harvesting head and the other operational systems of the combine. The control system includes an operator control located at the ... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5529537 | Grain bin monitor A combine grain bin monitoring system includes a pair of detectors mounted on the upper edges of opposing side walls of a combine grain bin, for detecting the presence of grain. A visual display module mounted outside of the bin has a visual indicator whi... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5484336 | Tank structure for a harvester A lubricant tank structure for a cotton harvester wherein the tank is located at the rear of a harvester behind the engine and near the fuel and water tanks. The tank shares support with an adjacent tank and is shaped to optimize use of available space. A... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5405292 | Harvester shield A harvester shield includes horizontal overlapping shingled panels supported by a framework between the drive tires and behind the cross axle of a harvester such as a cotton picker to protect otherwise vulnerable machine components and to allow the plants... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5326319 | Device for preparation of straw materials A device with which mowed straw material is prepared, that is, broken up into fibers, in order to speed up the drying process. In order to create a compact device that effectively prepares the straw material, there is an aggregate 3 provided with a centra... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5269724 | Arrangement for obtaining grain samples A sampling arrangement for a grain stream to extract a grain sample for analysis from the grain conveyed into a grain tank. The sampling arrangement comprises a closed crop guide that is provided with a closing arrangement that can be operated for the con... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5125221 | Grain tank cover apparatus A cover apparatus for use with a combine harvester of the type including a grain tank having an opened top. The cover apparatus includes a cover for covering the opened top of the grain tank, the cover having a top portion for being positioned over the to... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5096499 | Slitting apparatus for sugarcane rind A sugarcane rind-slitting apparatus of the type having a pair of counter-rotatable cylindrical members with a multiplicity of intermeshing annular projections. The apparatus includes disks on each cylindrical member, each disk having axially-recessed side... | 03/17/1992 |
| 4622803 | Header flotation The hydraulic circuit of the present invention allows flotation of the header without extensive use of accumulators and is readily adaptable to present open center hydraulic systems. The present invention is also adaptable to closed center hydraulic syste... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4441512 | Combined air intake screen and access door for combine A double door fan inlet screen (56, 57) on the bottom of a combine serves to screen foreign material from air flowing to a fan (46) and provide access for service personnel to an interior cavity (103) of the combine. The screen doors (56, 57) are held in ... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4417593 | Hand portable grain threshing apparatus A portable hand carryable device for threshing a sample of grain and separating the kernels of grain from the chaff which inclues two separate chambers one having a beater therein for threshing the grain and the other a fan for causing air to flow through... | 11/29/1983 |
| 4344443 | Cleaning apparatus of combine harvesters A combine harvester with a threshing, separating and cleaning device, the cleaning device comprising a grain pan (6), at least one cleaning sieve (7, 8) and a cleaning fan (9) operatively positioned relative to each other and pivotable in unison about a g... | 08/17/1982 |
| 4284086 | Threshing and separating apparatus A threshing unit is arranged in a concentrically spaced relation within a perforated rotatable grain separating cylinder. An elongated axially fluted impeller located below the threshing unit and within the separating cylinder accelerates the speed of tra... | 08/18/1981 |
| 3999359 | Tobacco harvester having a hydraulic control system for automatically and continuously controlling the speed of a leaf defoliator assembly in relation to the harvester ground speed A tobacco harvester having a hydraulic control system for automatically and continuously controlling and maintaining the speed of a leaf defoliator assembly relative to and in proportion to the ground speed of the tobacco harvester. The hydraulic control ... | 12/28/1976 |