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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7131500 | Sports surface reconditioner A device for reconditioning a damaged sports surface. The device includes at least one rotatably driven shaft with two ends, one of which is connected to a frame, the other end being disposed towards the surface. The driven shaft is disposed orthogonal relative to t... | 11/07/2006 |
| 6928938 | Method of conveying particulate material from an air seeder hopper An air seeder is provided having at least one container with a trough in the bottom floor. Preferably, the floor is formed with a v-shaped configuration converging at a metering mechanism. An auger is rotatably mounted in the trough to move particulate material to t... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6505568 | Mechanism for chemically and biologically treating turf An applicator mechanism is used in combination with a land vehicle and a source of fluid treatment substance to introduce the substance into a turf surface so that the turf surface is treated by the chemical. The applicator mechanism includes a frame moun... | 01/14/2003 |
| 5375541 | Material insertion machine A machine for slitting turf or soil and inserting particulate solids in the bottom of the cut slits. This machine consists of a propulsion unit, cutter blades, a material hopper, a material flow control valve, a set of rotary material supply vanes driven ... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5181476 | Equipment system for agricultural ground soil preparation The equipment system consists essentially of the undercarriage 101 having supporting wheels, the rotary device with dovetailing prongs 102, the sowing machine 103 and the land roller or clod breaker apparatus 104. The system components may be used in vari... | 01/26/1993 |
| 4624197 | Minimum tillage toolbar and method for using same A minimum tillage farm implement capable of being used for plowing, cultivating, planting and insecticide and herbicide and fertilizer application, which includes a tool bar frame having three parallel spaced apart laterally positioned tool bars held toge... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4542705 | Apparatus for renewing green areas and lawns An apparatus for producing parallel-walled grooves in green areas and lawns. Slits which form the walls of the groove are produced by means of tools which are arranged at the periphery of a drum, or alternatively, on a rolling wheel body. Each tool compri... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4409910 | Method and apparatus for planting seeds while conditioning soil Method and apparatus for planting seeds in a field. An anti-cohesion liquid chemical is injected at 30 to 50 p.s.i. into a narrow ribbon of soil, no more than two inches wide and two inches deep. Immediately thereafter, the soil ribbon is vigorously agita... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4359100 | Attachment combination for agricultural tractors In an attachment combination for agricultural tractors used for loosening soil in a field covered with living or dead plants or crop residue, a covering hood forms an ejection channel with a motor driven flail mower positioned under the hood. A support tu... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4258635 | Soil cultivation implement A soil cultivation implement comprising a frame adapted to be coupled to a drive means, and said frame supporting, one behind the other in the direction of travel, first cutting means for cutting the ground substantially vertically, second cutting means f... | 03/31/1981 |
| 4217835 | Depth control and seed boot assembly for tillage apparatus A depth control skid and seed boot assembly is disclosed that is particularly useful in a sod seeding implement for adjusting the maximum depth of cut of a cutting wheel and for adjusting the depth of the seed boot independently of each other. An arm rota... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4152993 | Implement combinations A cultivator-material dispensing combination includes a soil-working member that rotates about a horizontal axis forwardly, relative to the direction of travel, to displace soil over the top of that member to a screening at the rear thereof. A seed dispen... | 05/08/1979 |
| 4148262 | Railway vehicle drive Drive system for a railway vehicle. In a railway vehicle utilzing a high speed motor whose output shaft is arranged generally parallel to the direction of movement of the vehicle, there is provided a gearing system for connecting said motor to a driven ax... | 04/10/1979 |
| 4127074 | Soil cultivating implement An agricultural implement has a driven rotor with cultivator blades and a hood that overlies the rotor. The hood extends down to the rear and the lower hood portion is a guide that has a row of teeth. The teeth are extensions that furrow the worked soil a... | 11/28/1978 |
| 4049061 | Rotary harrows A cultivating implement or rotary harrow has two groups of soil working members mounted on upwardly extending shafts that extend transverse to the direction of operative travel. The groups of soil working members are adjustably linked to an elongated fram... | 09/20/1977 |
| 4043281 | Dual packer wheel unit for tillage apparatus A dual packer unit is disclosed that is particularly useful for sod seeding purposes. The apparatus includes an H-shaped mounting bracket consisting of an arcuate leg connected at opposite ends to a pivot arm and a wheel mounting arm. The pivot arm is int... | 08/23/1977 |
| 3995570 | Cultivators A cultivator has soil working blade members mounted on a horizontal shaft which is driven to rotate the members forwardly through the soil in the normal direction of travel. A baffle comprised of screen segments are mounted on the cultivator frame to part... | 12/07/1976 |
