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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7877972 | Automatic connection mechanism for mid-mounted implement An automatic connection mechanism for a mid-mounted implement to a tractor. The automatic connection mechanism includes a rear lift linkage pivotably attached to the tractor, that automatically and releasably engage the rear of the implement. The forward lift linkag... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7877973 | Riding mower A mid-mount riding rotary mower which has a two-piece frame. The frame includes a front section that is pivotally connected to a rear section. The mower deck is carried beneath the mower between the front and rear wheels and is attached to the front frame and follow... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7762051 | System for removal of agricultural header A control system for the header flotation and lift hydraulics of an agricultural windrower that manages the effective and efficient removal of the header. ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7610739 | Riding mower A mid-mount riding rotary mower which has a two-piece frame. The frame includes a front section that is pivotally connected to a rear section. The mower deck is carried beneath the mower between the front and rear wheels. The mower deck is attached to the front fram... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7552578 | Method and device for automatically coupling a combine feeder interface and a combine header An automatic latch assembly for coupling a combine feeder and combine header, said latch comprising a slidable gearbox and a telescopic jack shaft assembly extending therefrom, a hydraulic activation assembly, and spring-loaded couplers. ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7549279 | Mechanism for mounting agricultural equipment to a multi-purpose self-propelled straddle carrier The mounting mechanism comprise: on the straddle carrier side, a main frame mounted on wheels and suitable for selective lifting and lowering of the main frame in relation to the ground; on the equipment side, an auxiliary frame suitable for fixing to the main frame... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7222480 | Forage harvester with positionable operator's cabin A self-propelled forage harvester includes a chassis, an operator's cabin arranged on the chassis, a chopper drum, an ascending lower discharge chute extending from the chopper drum inside the chassis to a level above the chassis, a front attachment, a drive unit, a... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7165384 | Crop picking head with road travel support device A combination of a harvesting machine, a crop picking head, and a vehicle to support the crop picking head. The vehicle features a mount and at least one wheel extending down from the mount that supports the crop picking head and alleviates the weight on the front w... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7118141 | Apparatus and method for securing an exit device to a door A securing mechanism for coupling an exit device to a door. The securing mechanism comprises a bracket coupled to the exit device and a shaft having a first end and a second end and defining a longitudinal axis. The bracket defines a first aperture and a second aper... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7028456 | Mower with flip up mowing deck A mower deck assembly which essentially “flips up” or raises from a mowing configuration to an access configuration with minimal manipulation of controls and manual lifting. A deck is connected to a frame by a parallelogram suspension which includes front and re... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6912833 | Pivoting hooks for parallelogram lift linkages Pivoting hooks usable with four bar parallelogram implement lift linkages are provided. The hooks are pivotally attached at the forward edge of the implement to receive the cross bar of a suspension mechanism such as that taught in U.S. Pat. No. 5,025,617. The pivot... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6698174 | Tool lifting apparatus for gardening vehicles, such as lawn mowers or the like A tool lifting apparatus for gardening vehicles such as lawn mowers or the like, of the type that comprises a lever-type frame, which supports the tool and is associated with hydraulic-cylinder lifting actuators, coupled between the frame and the vehicle ... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6684615 | Hinge system for articulating mower decks A hinge assembly hingedly connects a first mower frame member defining a first frame hole to a second mower frame member defining a second frame hole, wherein at least one of the first and second frame members is a frame member of a mower deck of the mowe... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6679037 | Suspension device A device for suspending a mower cutting deck that includes a retention member connected with the frame of a vehicle. The retention member receives a linkage bridging the cutting deck and the frame. To receive this linkage, the retention member includes a ... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6631608 | Extendable tool attachment mechanism for a lawn care vehicle A lawn care vehicle with a tool attachment such as spiral-bladed mowing units arranged in front and underneath the lawn care vehicle in offset fashion. A tool frame to which the tool attachments are mounted is received within rails for allowing the tool f... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6584756 | Pivoting hooks for parallelogram lift linkages Pivoting hooks usable with four bar parallelogram implement lift linkages are provided. The hooks are pivotally attached at the forward edge of the implement to receive the cross bar of a suspension mechanism such as that taught in U.S. Pat. No. 5,025,617... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6463723 | Side mount sickle mower A mower attachment for a tractor having a base plate that can be attached to the tractor; an inner arm rotatably attached to the base plate, wherein the inner arm has an end plate; an outer plate attached to the end plate of the inner arm; a mower yoke at... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6038841 | Device for leveling a mower deck An arrangement is provided for leveling the blade housing of a mower. The housing is suspended from the underside of a vehicle frame by a pair of suspension arms pivotally connected to the housing and the frame. A pair of brackets are joined to opposite s... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6000203 | Blueberry harvester A blueberry harvester comprising a platform mountable behind an agricultural tractor. The platform has a post near the harvesting side thereof with a jib-boom crane mounted on that post. There is also provided a blueberry picking head having riggings conn... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5956932 | Deck attachment mechanism and method A riding mower is provided and includes a frame, a drive shaft, an engine for selectively rotating the drive shaft, a mower deck having first and second ends, coupling for selectively coupling the drive shaft to the mower deck, a lift cylinder for selecti... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5937625 | Mower deck suspension mechanism A mechanism for suspending a mower deck from a vehicle, including a suspension member having a longitudinally extending axis and a laterally extending portion which supports the deck at a plurality of spaced locations. A structural member fixed with the v... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5916112 | Guide link for a rotatable harvester gearbox A guide link mechanism is supported from the draft tongue of a pull-type harvester and connected to the gearbox mounted on the crop harvesting header to provide rotational power thereto wherein the guide link is supported from a sliding mechanism mounted ... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5896732 | Side sickle for a garden tractor A side sickle for a lawn tractor including a sickle having a first end pivotally coupled with respect to the lawn tractor. The sickle adapted to transfer between a stored orientation and a horizontal orientation wherein the sickle is extended perpendicula... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5878558 | Tractor mounted harvester with quick attach structure Mounting structure attaching a cotton harvester to a tractor includes a pair of rear subframe support members that attach one to a side directly to the tractor and are designed for the specific tractor to which the harvester will be mounted. A second grou... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5832705 | Agricultural machine An agricultural machine has a main machine, an additional device coupled with the main machine, a hydraulic unit performing control or working functions and including hydraulic valves and hydraulic supply and return conduits, a control current unit for co... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5799483 | Combine harvester header lateral levelling The combine harvester (10) has a bar (94) with male ends (96) and (98) attached to the elevator housing (20). The male end (96) has an arcuate surface (100) and the male end (98) has an arcuate surface (102). A left female arcuate section (158) and a righ... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5778647 | Disc mower conditioner A disc mower conditioner utilizing a modular disc cutterbar to sever standing crop material by impact action supports the cutterbar from the header of the mower conditioner by a pair of transversely spaced support arms mounted by spherical bushings to the... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5549145 | Balancing skid for tree harvesting machine A balancing skid for a tree harvesting machine, which balancing skid is designed to mount adjacent to the cutting assembly beneath the cutting frame of the tree harvesting machine and spaced from the existing blade skid to balance the cutting assembly hor... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5535578 | Linkage device for mounting swather header A levelling mechanism for use a in lift system of a windrowing machine of the type including a tractor unit and a swather header to permit the use of a grain header which is held suspended above the ground rather than a hay type swather header which norma... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5528886 | Hitching arrangement for a mower deck A hitching arrangement for attaching a mower deck to a propelling vehicle has a lift shaft rotatably supported by the mower deck and extending transversely across the deck. At least one hitch arm is fixedly secured on one end to the lift shaft. The hitch ... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5528889 | Riding lawn tractor A coupling mechanism for connecting a working unit to a tractor body is disclosed which includes an engaging device and receiver brackets for coupling the working unit which is suspended from a lawn tractor body to links extending from the tractor body. T... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5483789 | Laterally movable grass cutting mower attachment A transversely-mounted grass cutter mower combination with a vehicle is provided which is adapted to be activated to move laterally to the right or to the left with respect to its mounting to the vehicle and/or to move vertically up or down with respect t... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5437145 | Feeder assembly coupling structure for an agricultural harvester The present invention concerns a self-aligning coupling structure for releasably connecting a rear end of a feeder assembly to a frame of an agricultural harvester such as a combine and the like. The self-aligning coupling structure includes a pair of rel... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5272859 | Mechanical drive center pivot mower conditioner A swing-tongue harvester has a hydraulically controlled pulling tongue that can be operated from the tractor seat to change the lateral position of the machine relative to the towing tractor, notwithstanding the presence of a mechanical drive line which e... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5239812 | Frame structure for a front mower A front mower having a grass cutting unit connectable to a front portion and a grass catcher connectable to a rear portion thereof, comprises a main frame structure extending longitudinally of a mower body. The main frame structure includes a pair of righ... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5226283 | Lawn mowing apparatus A first lawn mowing vehicle formed of self-propelled configuration mounts a second lawn mowing vehicle utilizing a frame assembly. The frame assembly is pivotally mounted to the first lawn mowing vehicle and to the second lawn mowing vehicle, with the sec... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5209049 | Articulated lawn mower A lawn mower deck assembly having a pair of similarly shaped decks. Each of the decks has rotary cutting blades for cutting grass therebeneath. Furthermore, a pivotal shaft is used to couple the decks together at their adjacent edges. The mower has wheels... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5203149 | Slope mower A slope mower which can tilt a tractor body upslope about pivot points on the front and rear axles during operations on sloping terrain. The slope mower has a novel all geared powered belly mower and also has a novel mower lifting system. The slope mower ... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5193331 | Legume harvester A mechanical harvester is specifically designed for mechanically picking "gourmet-type" leguminous crops with hand-picked quality. The picking tools are a plurality of elongate resilient fingers which are disposed on an endless moving belt for gently comb... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5154043 | Hitch system for lawn and garden tractors A hitch system for connecting utility attachments, such as mower decks, to lawn and garden tractors. A pair of J-shaped hooks are attached to the front axle assembly to the tractor. An elongate hitch bracket, having a handle at its forward end, it pivotal... | 10/13/1992 |
