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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7356982 | Crop harvesting header with rotary disks and impellers for transferring the crop inwardly to a discharge opening A crop header has a cutter bar with generally horizontal flail disks driven about generally spaced upright axes. At least two of the disks are mounted outwardly of a discharge opening and the outermost disk carries an impeller and at least one additional impeller is... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7222478 | Header for harvesting crops having stalks A crop harvesting header includes a compact arrangement of side-by-side mounted intake and mowing units, cross conveyors and deflection coveyors, which operate to efficiently deliver cut crop to a central outlet at the rear side of the header. Some of the compactnes... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7165381 | Crop converging arrangement on mowing implement equipped with a rotary cutter bar A mowing implement is equipped with a rotary cutter bar and utilizes right- and left-hand sets of converging drums to aid those cutting discs located outboard of opposite sides of a discharge zone to converge crop to the discharge zone. The inner two of each of the ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7073316 | Harvesting implement for harvesting stalk-like plants A harvesting implement for the harvesting of stalk-like plants comprising an intake arrangement for taking up plants located on a field and a stalk divider arranged ahead of the intake arrangement in the forward direction. The crop divider is supported in bearings s... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7066810 | System and method for positively discharging crop residue from a combine A system and method for positively discharging crop residue from a combine for precisely and consistently delivering crop residue from the threshing and separating area of a combine to the combine's residue handling system or outwardly from the rear of the combine a... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065946 | Lawnmower having mulching cutter deck assembly A mulching assembly for a mower deck that has one or more cutting chambers includes a channeling plate in each cutting chamber. The channeling plate is configured to optimize air and clipping flow through the cutting chamber for mulching and dispersal of the clippin... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7047713 | Low profile gearbox housing A gear box for a grass mowing machine with a generally horizontal shaft extending from the engine and/or transmission, and a rotary cutting blade with a generally vertical shaft. The gear box has a top surface and a bottom surface, the gear box enclosing the first e... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7047717 | Agricultural header with chopper A feeding and picking device is provided with a rotating feeding device defining a feeding radius. The feeding device is rotated about a vertical feeding axis. The picking device comprises a snapping channel formed by snapping bars under which is located at least on... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6968907 | Smooth rolling cover crop roller Cover crops may be rolled and crimped using an apparatus which may be rolled across a field at a relatively high speed without excessive vibration. The apparatus includes a substantially cylindrical drum which has a plurality of rows of outwardly extending blades pr... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6688972 | Combine with chopper arrangement A combine having a chopper arrangement for receiving and chopping harvested crop material that has been threshed and separated. The chopper arrangement comprises a web wheel disk having knives entrained thereon that cooperate with a stationary shear bar t... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6298643 | Machine for mowing and chopping corn and similar stalk-like harvested crops A machine for mowing and chopping corn and similar stalk-like harvested crops has a number of drawing-in and mowing drums which rotate about a vertical axis and which are provided with protruding driver gear rims. The drawing-in and mowing drums are dispo... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6250056 | Rotary blade pruning machine A pruning machine, for pruning or trimming a row of vines or other plants, includes first and second sets of pruning apparatus. The first set includes a first mounting plate having a central axis and an outer edge, a first set of blades mounted on the fir... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6032444 | Non-row-sensitive forage harvester A non-row-sensitive forage harvesting header for attachment to a mobile frame carrying a chopper has a pair of rotatable cutting discs for severing stalks as the frame moves across a field. Positioned above the cutting discs are a pair of drum-shaped tran... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6000475 | Plant cutting apparatus using counter-rotating cutter disc stacks An apparatus for removing unwanted plants such as post harvested plants in a field, has a frame assembly, at least one depth wheel, at least one pair of counter-rotating cutter disc stacks supported by the frame assembly, the stacks being spaced from each... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5941316 | Stalk puller and chopper assembly A stalk puller and chopper assembly 10 drawn behind a tractor 11, the stalk puller and chopper assembly comprising a puller means in the form of a pair of contra-rotating rubber wheels 12 and 13 on a shaft 21. The wheels are located upstream of a feeder m... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5895320 | Defoliating flail A polyurethane sugar beet flail including one or more tapered arms which radiate from a hub that contains a hardened support bearing. One multi-arm flail includes a support hub containing a bored nylon bearing having a pair of co-planar arms which radiate... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5845468 | Rotary mower cutter disc having replaceable knife mount shield A rotary mower cutter disc includes a replaceable knife mount shield which, in one embodiment, comprises a unitary slotted body which is received over the edge of the disc and held in place by the knife mounting bolt. The nut holding the bolt in place is ... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5513486 | Method and device for destroying banana plantation debris A machine for cutting and mulching banana plantation debris includes a self-propelled tractor mechanism having at least two driven wheels and at least one steerable wheel. The tractor mechanism forces banana plantation debris below the tractor mechanism a... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5305587 | Shredding disk for a lawn mower A shredding disk for a lawn mower which attaches to the motor shaft and between the mower blade and the lawn mower deck. The shredding disk includes a disk member and a plurality of knives in a serrated fashion located inboard of the circumferential edge ... | 04/26/1994 |
| 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 |
| 5191759 | Basecutter gearbox for a sugar cane harvester A sugar cane harvester in which the base cutting assembly is configured and mounted to the harvester so as to allow convenient removal and/or servicing of the base cutting assembly. The base cutting assembly has a gearbox which extends across the space be... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5129219 | Base cutter assembly A base cutter assembly (16) of a sugarcane harvester (10) in which the accumulation of trash around the drive shaft (32) of the base cutter assembly (16) is prevented. The base cutter assembly (16) is provided with a shaped drive shaft (32) which causes t... | 07/14/1992 |
| 4926623 | Mowing apparatus A mowing apparatus for mowing stalk-like crops independently of rows and conveying the mowed crop to a draw-in-box of a chopper, including two rotating mowing rollers with rigid entrainment fingers, the mowing rollers being arranged laterally in front o... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4735216 | Straw chopper and spreader assembly A straw chopper and spreader assembly for receiving straw from a threshing machine, has a casing enclosing a pair of contra-rotatable flail assemblies. The flails are mounted in different horizontal planes and have blades which overlap so as to shear and ... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4733525 | Cutting machine utilizable in agriculture, viticulture and aboriculture A cutting machine for use in agriculture, viticulture and arboriculture has at least one cutting assembly constituted by a plurality of superposed cutting tools, each cutting tool comprising a rotary circular cage provided with peripheral openings, and a ... | 03/29/1988 |
| 4691505 | Stalk shredder for self-propelled cotton stripper Individual stalk shredder units are mounted beneath the frame between the wheels of a cotton harvester. The shredder units are connected to a shredder bar which is attached to the frame by support arms. The height of shredder bar in use is regulated by ga... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4617788 | Lawn mower leaf mulching blade and method A lawn mower blade having superior leaf mulching qualities is provided by placing V-shaped notches in each cutting edge of a conventional rotary lawn mower blade. The notches are positioned one-half (1/2) inch from the blade tip and have sides which measu... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4614197 | Chaff spreading arrangement for a combine In a combine harvester, the chaff discharged from the cleaning shoe is funneled towards the downwardly directed inlet of a pneumatic conveyor and transferred, by the conveyor, to the inlet of a rear mounted straw chopper. In this way, the relatively light... | 09/30/1986 |
| 4526180 | Straw chopper and spreader assembly A straw chopper and spreader assembly for receiving straw from a threshing machine, has a casing enclosing a pair of contra-rotatable flail assemblies. The flails are mounted in different horizontal planes and have blades which overlap so as to shear and ... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4502268 | Apparatus for cutting upstanding agricultural crops An apparatus for cutting upstanding agricultural crops includes a plurality of adjacent dynamically balanced rotary cutter assemblies each having diametrically opposed blades the outer tips of which are at unequal distances from the rotary axis, correspon... | 03/05/1985 |
| 4459796 | Gathering plant trash A machine for gathering and disintegrating standing, row-planted, trash stems of crops such as cotton, pineapples etc., comprises a frame adapted to be travelled along a row of trash stems and direct them into the nip of rotating resilient rollers in mutu... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4397136 | Agricultural slasher An agricultural slasher for cutting bushy plants, such as cotton plants, after harvesting, has a tractor-mounted main frame carrying a series of parallel laterally spaced driven cutter shafts inclining from bottom to top in the direction of travel, each c... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4389799 | Scrub crusher A dual winch for mounting on a tractor comprises a pair of winch drums separately connected via a clutch to a common drive shaft. Each winch drum typically incorporates a planetary gear unit. The cables on the winches are connected to a roller preferably ... | 06/28/1983 |
| 4384444 | Bean cutting device A bean cutting device to cut beans when harvesting a bean crop. The device is mountable on the front of a tractor and includes a frame carrying a plurality of generally upright but forwardly inclined columns. Each column carries a cutting assembly includi... | 05/24/1983 |
| 4383536 | Straw spreader Straw spreaders are normally controlled manually by the operator and it is therefore extremely difficulty to continually adjust the speed of the spreader so that the straw layer is reasonably even because the density of the straw varies continuously acros... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4354341 | Brush cutter A brush cutter with elevated brush engaging bar to keep brush bent away from brush cutter as cut is made. In one version the cutter comprises a circular saw blade driven from the power take-off at the front of a small two wheel drive tractor. In another v... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4339908 | Vegetation clearing devices The invention relates to vegetation clearing devices and more particularly to a gravity roller means for use in vegetation clearing. The invention provides a vehicle for use in vegetation clearing which comprises a winch arrangement mounted on the vehicle... | 07/20/1982 |
| 4338985 | Tree and brushwood harvester A machine for clearing and cleanly chipping trees and brushwood in the path of the machine as it moves forward. A pair of counterrotating disk cutters cut a kerf in the standing material and propel the cut material upwardly and rearwardly to the throat be... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4292795 | Straw and chaff chopper and spreader A casing is secured at the rear of the threshing machine underneath the straw discharge thereof. It is provided with a closed base panel and a partially open top panel through which the straw and chaff is fed. In one embodiment, a multi-bladed straw chopp... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4258535 | Shielding structure for rotary mower A rotary mower shielding structure is provided for utilization in bedded row crops. The shielding structure is carried at the forward edge of the mower and has uniquely shaped openings compatibly spaced for row crops. The openings are designed to guide an... | 03/31/1981 |
