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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7433059 | Device for treating bulbous or tuberous plants Device for treating bulbous or tuberous plants, particularly onions, provided with a green end and a root end and a bulb axis extending therethrough, comprising means for holding the bulbs, means for cutting the green end and the root end off from the bulbs, means f... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7325512 | Method for harvesting and dispensing crops A new method for collecting and dispensing cut crops. The feed crop is cut as in the prior art. A vacuum is used to lift the dried feed crop off the ground and blow it into a mobile storage container. The feed is allowed to compress under its own weight within the s... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7007449 | Onion harvester with leaf topper An orientation system for vegetables includes a plurality of rotating rollers that both pull the vegetable into an inverted position, with leafy top down, and advance the vegetable along the length of the rollers to deliver the vegetables to a cutting system. The or... | 03/07/2006 |
| 5660034 | Folding root crop defoliator A foldable root crop defoliator wherein the implement has a central frame with lateral wings pivotally attached to the central frame. The front end of the central frame is adjustably attached to a hitch for towing the defoliator. Plant top cutting and shr... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5501067 | Selective harvesting machine A harvesting machine particularly useful in harvesting pyrethrum flowers has picking fingers resiliently mounted on a rotatable drum so as to capable of flexions in response to contact with plants during harvesting. The spacing between fingers in one arra... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5479764 | Nonpowered disc scalping apparatus for sugar beets and like plants A scalping apparatus (10) is disclosed including a disc (32) having a circular periphery rotatably mounted upon a pivot post (46) located below and behind the lower surface of the disc (32). The axis (34) of the disc (32) is tilted at an acute angle in th... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5253468 | Crop chopping machine A machine for chopping strawberry plants or other row crops consisting of a rotating blade that describes a plane approximately parallel to the plane formed by the top of the beds on which the crop is planted, with a spacer rigidly attached to the underne... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5107664 | Vegetable topper and method for topping tuber vegetables A vegetable topper for cutting the leafy tops off of tubers, such as onions, as they lie in the field. This improved topping system is designed to be mounted on a wheeled moveable frame towed by a tractor, which uses a vacuum to lift the tops and snip the... | 04/28/1992 |
| 4691507 | Polyurethane flail for use in defoliating sugar beets and the like The disclosed flexible flail is molded from polyurethane. The flail has a relatively thin shank with a hub at one end so that the flail can be attached to the rotor of conventional defoliating apparatus and has a thicker portion at the end thereof opposit... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4691506 | Apparatus for defoliating sugar beets and the like utilizing flexible flails with rigid cutting members at the free ends thereof A defoliator for detopping sugar beets and the like includes at least one laterally extending rotor on which a plurality of flails are mounted. The flails are of polyurethane and have a hub at one end provided with a bore so that they can be pivotally att... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4272947 | Topping cutter for a cane harvester A topping cutter for a cane harvester, supported and vertically adjustable in front of the harvester for severing tops of cane to be harvested, has a frame with two adjacent counter-rotatable feed drums with radiating fingers to engage the cane tops and f... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4263773 | Beet topping device A beet topping device transportable over the ground, comprising a frame, a polygonal construction, in particular a quadrangular construction or quadrangular linkage movably connected to the frame, via at least one pivot shaft and variable in position rela... | 04/28/1981 |
