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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7493745 | Intake and plucking arrangement An intake and plucking arrangement comprises a rotatable intake device that grasps a standing plant and directs it to a plucking gap. The plucking gap is located above parallel first and second stalk rolls that pull the stalk of the plant downwardly so that the pluc... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7395649 | Gathering and picking device A gathering and picking device comprising a picking gap, which is used to separate fruits from plants standing on a field. The gathering and picking device is provided with a first feed element operating at a first feeding speed and a second feed element operating a... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7350344 | Lawnmower rotary cutting apparatus and grass guide A lawnmower consisting essentially of a rotary cutting apparatus comprising a plurality of small blades and a grass guide for bending and constraining the grass for ease of cutting. The grass guide is mounted substantially parallel to the drive shafts which extend b... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7320202 | Stacking of lumber pieces An apparatus for picking, conveying, stacking and bundling lumber pieces from the ground for example for removing stacked support lumber during laying of a pipe line comprises a tracked vehicle to which is attached a frame carrying a transport conveyer along the sid... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7316104 | Arrangement for reducing soybean losses in soybean headers An arrangement for reducing soybean losses in soybean headers, includes a plurality of retainers which may be engaged to a tray edge and each retainer comprises a plate having a substantially planar central portion ending at a lower end which is curved downwardly fo... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7237373 | Stalk roll with oppositely tapering body and drivers A stalk roll for a harvesting device for harvesting crop heads of stalk-like plants. The stalk roll is provided with a roll body having projecting drivers distributed around its periphery. The pull-in speed of the stalk rolls in a picking region where the crop heads... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7222479 | Curved support arm for reel assembly A crop harvesting mechanism having a reel assembly with a reel that is rotatably supported at each end by a respective reel support. A reel carrier arm is provided for each of the reel supports and the supports are movable along the reel carrier arm. A horizontal ad... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7204074 | Wide pickup header for a round baler When harvesting forage in the form of a large round bale, for instance, there are times in which a windrow of forage material lies outside the side boundaries of the bale-forming chamber. This may be due to the windrow being made wide by machinery having driven thro... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7185480 | Machine and method for bunching plant stems A flexible band is tensioned between fingers, capable of gripping together, of a gripper. In the bunching of plant stems, the band is held in an opening between fingers of the gripper behind a pair of rollers. The plant stems are carried along between the pair of ro... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7146789 | Walk-behind cotton harvester The cotton harvester includes a cotton picker housing having at least one plant lifter defining a plant row channel extending back into the housing to a plant compressor sheet. A picker rotor is mounted in the cotton picker housing adjacent to the plant row channel ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7073432 | Binding device and a method for forming a stock of brushwood A method for binding logging waste or small timber material by using an automatic binding device, wherein the material is collected in a continuous bundle of brushwood and fed in the longitudinal direction. The material of the bundle of brushwood is compressed furth... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7062897 | Gathering and picking device A gathering and picking device having a gathering element arranged on a first side of a picking gap. The gathering element is rotated about a predominantly vertical axis and is provided with carrier elements arranged to grasp standing plants and to introduce them in... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7036295 | Aquatic growth harvester A deck slotted into a left and a right deck halves in spaced apart positions so as to provide a slot therebetween. On each of the deck halves a pair of drums are mounted for rotation. Around each of the pairs of drums a rubber belt is engaged so that the rubber belt... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7021038 | Conditioner rolls A pair of conditioning rolls is disclosed that comprise one steel and one rubber/urethane roll. The steel roll has raised ribs formed thereon or attached thereto in a spiral configuration, while the rubber/urethane roll contains grooves therein that intermesh with t... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6925790 | Harvesting equipment for stalk plants A harvesting apparatus for harvesting corn or other such stalked vegetation includes at least one circulating endless conveyor for gathered plants, which forms an area at an end thereof for delivery of the plants to an inlet opening of a further processing apparatus... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6837034 | Harvesting equipment Harvesting equipment (1) for harvesting corn or similar stalk-like harvested products, the harvesting equipment (1) having at least one link chain (4; 5), which is provided with holding means for the cut-down harvested products (3), and h... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6807799 | Sugarcane harvester and harvesting system A harvester for harvesting stalks of sugarcane having a plurality of harvest chambers. Each harvest chamber has a pair of opposing side walls that forming a V-shaped forward opening for receiving sugarcane stalks to be cut for harvest and a plurality of revolving, o... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6568163 | Conveyor arrangement positioned within mower suspension links A vehicle, in the form of a self-propelled forage harvester, has a three-point hitch assembly mounted to its forward end in place of the cutter head. A mower together with a rotary tine crop conditioner is coupled to the three-point hitch. Located in a zo... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6425232 | Crop processor roll arrangement for a forage harvester A forage harvester and a method of operating the same which comprises a crop processor unit located in a crop flow between a cutterhead and a blower rotor, the crop processor unit being for handling crop material including kernels, the crop processor comp... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6272822 | Upstream implement for combined harvester-thresher for harvesting soybeans and peas A front-mounted attachment (2) for harvester-threshers (1) for harvesting soy-beans and peas has a resiliently mounted additional cutting mechanism (4), whose cutter drive (5) can be derived from the drive of the cutting mechanism of the harvester-threshe... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6230476 | Row crop gathering belt for combine heads A combine gathering belt assembly has a pair of continuous sprocket chains each supported on rotatable sprockets at their opposite ends, and having spaced parallel inner traveling chain portions. A plurality of flexible spaced belt segments are secured to... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6050510 | Switching device for cutter blades in agricultural harvesting machines The invention relates to an agricultural harvesting machine having a switching device for cutter blades for comminuting crop material before the pressing or gathering operation. It is particularly applicable for round and square baling presses as well as ... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6029431 | Vehicle A vehicle comprises a structure 10 including an elongate section 11 connected to chassis sections 12,13 at its ends. Each chassis section 12,13 carries two steerable drive wheels 18,20. Two engines 16 are provided, one carried by each chassis section 12, ... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5964080 | Harvesting machine An ensilage harvester is equipped with a blower including a rotor equipped with paddles for conveying crop along a housing wall surrounding the rotor. The paddles include cutting edges that reach close to the wall so as to cut crop that may enter the roto... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5934054 | Row crop header A row crop header for cutting row crops beneath the ground surface thereby increasing the percentage of brittle and bent over row crop harvested. The inventive device includes a pair of frames defining a slot therebetween, a hydraulic motor, a pair of cor... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5816036 | Apparatus and method for harvesting cane A two-row cane harvester 10 simultaneously harvests two rows of sugar cane in a green tropical cane field. Gatherer chains 62, 64 lift fallen cane stalks upwardly and support the fallen cane stalks as the harvester 10 moves through the cane field. A pair ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5485716 | Double row cane harvester A cane harvester having at least two basecutter assemblies disposed so as to harvest cane stalks from at least two rows simultaneously. The harvester comprises a first basecutter assembly for severing a first row of cane stalks and at least a second basec... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5467585 | Brushwood clearing machine capable of cutting and recuperating the cut brushwood material A brushwood clearing machine comprises two mutually adjacent brushwood cutting units rotating in opposite directions about respective parallel axes lying in a generally horizontal plane. The cutting units are elongate and comprise cylindrical surfaces cen... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5428946 | Row crop cutter and conveyor A harvesting apparatus for use with fragile row crops such as tobacco where the produce or leaves must be handled with great care to avoid breakage or bruising. The apparatus has a conveyor system and gathering chains which receive the tobacco from a cutt... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5379577 | Cane harvester and method An improved two-row, four-wheel cane harvester includes first and second front carrier assemblies for carrying cut cane rearward in first and second passageways each passing between the pair of front wheels and then outwardly between the respective front ... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5377479 | Method and apparatus for harvesting and bundling plants The present invention relates to a method for harvesting and bundling plants, preferably energy forest plants and the like planted in rows. The plants may be harvested from one or several planting rows by a harvesting assembly. The harvesting assembly is ... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5354003 | Trash plant stem shredding apparatus A trash plant stem shredder having vertically stacked pairs of parallel, frictionally engaged contra-rotating uprooting rollers are carried by a frame and towed behind a vehicle. The uprooting rollers are tilted forward such that, when a trash plant stem ... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5303533 | Cane harvester and method An improved two-row, four-wheel cane harvester includes first and second front carrier assemblies for carrying cut cane rearward in first and second passageways each passing between the pair of front wheels and then outwardly between the respective front ... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5157904 | Sugar-cane harvesting machine In a sugar-cane harvesting machine with a mobile machine base frame and a chopping mechanism (8), harvesting attachments which can be optionally fixed on the machine base frame are provided for adapting to different harvesting circumstances and terrain co... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5058369 | Automated device and method for harvesting plants with uniform stem length A device and method for automated, mechanical harvesting of plants having differing heights and stem lengths, wherein a stem portion of the plant must be severed at a uniform, predetermined length from the top of the plant. The inventive method comprises ... | 10/22/1991 |
| 4965991 | Crop feeding system A crop feeding system is provided for a crop gathering implement and includes a frame assembly mounted on the crop gathering implement above a transverse crop cutting mechanism thereof. A pair of wheel subassemblies are mounted on the frame assembly and e... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4958482 | Mowing machine The mowing machine, of the seated operator type, comprises a supporting frame which supports, at its central portion, a casing including a grass cutting assembly, and a seat for the operator. The main feature of the machine is that it further comprises, associ... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4921050 | Plant extractor and cultivating apparatus Plant extracting apparatus is provided by the present invention which utilizes spaced pairs of endless belts having adjacent runs which extend from an inlet adjacent the ground towards an elevated outlet above a cutter assembly. The adjacent runs of the b... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4771592 | Machine which is pulled or provided with a three-point attachment to a tractor and used for the harvesting of corn and similar stalk-like crops The invention relates to a machine which is pulled or attached to a three-point attachment on a tractor and used for the harvesting of corn or similar stalk-like crops. The machine has a cutting device and a chopping blower arranged subsequent thereto wit... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4751812 | Stalk puller and shredder machine A machine for shredding stalk, particularly that of cotton, is disclosed which comprises a wheeled frame adapted to be trailed along crop rows, a power driven unit, and a stalk puller device. The device comprises a pair of frictionally coupled rollers, at... | 06/21/1988 |
