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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7438006 | Agricultural seeding machine with compact furrow opener/closer An agricultural seeding machine movable in a planting direction includes a frame; a disc opener assembly carried by the frame and having a first axis of rotation; a gauge wheel assembly carried by the frame and having a second axis of rotation, and a press wheel ass... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7412933 | Seeder with trailing arm and hoe-type mid row bander A seeding and fertilizing apparatus comprises a plurality of seed assemblies each comprising a trailing arm pivotally connected at a front end thereof to the frame and a packer wheel rotatably attached to rear end thereof. A seed furrow opener is attached to the tra... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7360494 | Apparatus for planter depth monitoring A seed planting assembly comprising a laterally extending support member and a planting unit including a planting frame supported by said support member. Said planting unit frame carries, a seed trench opening assembly operable to create a seed trench in a ground su... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360495 | Method for planter depth monitoring An improved method of monitoring penetration of a planting unit into a ground surface comprising engaging a planting unit with a ground surface wherein the planting unit has a planting unit frame and the planting unit frame is cooperatively engaged with a support me... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7263937 | Seed tube guard A mutually-engageable or interlocking connection between a seed tube guard and a frame member mounted to a seed planting machine. The mutually-engageable connection includes a yoke having a front journal and a rear journal with a gap, the yoke, carried on the frame ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7246563 | Pivot assembly for planter closing wheel frame A pivot assembly is provided for attaching a closing wheel frame to a planter. The closing wheel frame has a pair of closing wheels attached at a rear end and a pair of mounting openings formed at a front end. The pivot assembly includes ball bearings having outer r... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7090433 | Underground cable laying apparatus Presented is an underground cable laying apparatus that leaves virtually no visible scar in the turf under which cable, wire, line, hose, etc. is laid. The apparatus utilizes a pair of angularly displaced turf slicing wheels to slice and separate the turf forming a ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 6945182 | Midrow levelling attachment for a seeder A midrow levelling attachment for a seeder includes a set of leveller gangs each of which is mounted on a respective one of the packer wheel gangs of the seeder by a pair of mounting members one at each end of the common shaft of the leveller gang. The levelling rol... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6918343 | Pivot assembly for planter closing wheel frame A pivot assembly is provided for attaching a closing wheel frame to a planter. The closing wheel frame has a pair of closing wheels attached at a rear end and a pair of mounting openings formed at a front end. The pivot assembly includes ball bearings having outer r... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6895876 | Seed drill element having improved topsoiling means The seed drill element comprises a frame, a seed tank, a seed dispenser, and a member for opening a furrow in the ground. The seed drill element further comprises mechanism for bearing against the ground, having a rear block and/or a front block, with each block hav... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6848377 | Furrow opener/closer in an agricultural machine An assembly for opening and closing a furrow in soil includes a furrow opener with a pair of discs positioned at an angle relative to each other. The discs each have an inner side facing toward each other and an outer side facing away from each other. Each disc also... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6615753 | Expandable stinger planter Expandable stinger planting is described in which stinger probes on a boom end mounted frame are positioned for ground penetration on a boom type vehicle. Bottom ends of the probes are shifted between a closed plant receiving, ground penetrating positions... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6578502 | Soil working apparatus A soil working apparatus including at least one rotatable soil working members (52, 54) for disturbing the soil in the direction of travel of the apparatus, the rotatable soil working members (52, 54) being obliquely passing through and beneath the surfac... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6502644 | Leveling wheel structure for a minimum tillage ripper A leveling wheel assembly for a deep tillage ripper tool includes a support bracket fixed to the upper end of the ripper shank and a wheel support arm pivotally connected to the aft end of the bracket. Wheel support structure rotatably mounts a pair of le... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6347594 | Narrow profile opener capable of high speed operation An opener assembly includes a single opener disk rotatably supported from a drawbar and angled approximately five degrees from the forward direction to define a shadow area behind the trailing surface of the disk. A material placement boot and delivery tu... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6314897 | Furrow closing system and method for no-till agricultural seeders An improved furrow closing system and method are disclosed for agricultural seeders, particularly no-till seeders, that produce an open furrow in the soil into which seeds are placed. The closing system includes one or more spoked wheels rotatably mounted... | 11/13/2001 |
| 5906166 | Seeding assembly including seed boot and boot mounted, resiliently biased packer wheel The present invention provides a seed boot and packer wheel for use with a cultivator particularly of the type for mounting directly on a cultivator shank. The seed boot and packer wheel comprise a seed boot, an attachment means fixing the seed boot to th... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5809915 | Contouring dry land seed drill A seed drill particularly adapted for contouring uneven ground and accommodating rocks, especially where depth of furrow and placement of seed against wet soil is critical, as in dry land farming. Each drill in a set of drills is a separate unit which is ... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5664507 | Seed tube guide The present invention is a seed tube guide for maintaining the seed tube in the center of the seed planting furrow between the double disc openers. The seed tube guide comprises a unitary member having left and right forwardly extending mounting plates fo... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5645000 | Seed furrow closing apparatus for agricultural planters A seed furrow closing apparatus which utilizes a pair of tine wheels having inner and outer press plates which may be selectively removed depending on the particular soil conditions and amount of debris and residue encountered. The tine wheel comprises a ... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5619939 | Disc opener A disc-type opener and seeder useful in direct seeding during zero-till operations includes index/presser wheels to prevent hairpinning of trash etc. A soil retainer wheel cooperates with the disc to close the furrow cut by the disc and to cover the seeds... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5562055 | Strut Packer A packer is mounted on a tool shank of an agricultural cultivator. It includes a guide tube slideably and rotatably mounted on a rigid seed tube mounted directly on the shank. The guide tube is biased downwardly by a compression spring surrounding the see... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5461994 | Seed drill planting assembly A seed drill includes a novel planting assembly combining press wheels for packing angular sides of a furrow and a runner immediately behind and longitudinally aligned with the press wheel. The runner extends rearwardly from beneath the press wheel and is... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5357884 | All purpose coulter drill A unique and improved seed and fertilizer coulter-type drill is disclosed. The drill has a plurality of coulter wheels in four rows, the front two rows of coulters cut first furrows and deposit seed. The rear two rows of coulters cover the seed in the fir... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5309852 | Seed drill A seed drill includes a novel planting assembly combining press wheels for packing angular sides of a furrow and a runner immediately behind and longitudinally aligned with the press wheel. The runner extends rearwardly from beneath the press wheel and is... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5035190 | Implement for seeding grass An implement for seeding "fluffy" grass seed comprising a seed box defining a plurality of seed compartments having a seed dispensing slot in a lower portion thereof. Seed delivery tubes are connected to the seed box so that each of the seed delivery tube... | 07/30/1991 |
| 4878443 | Planter trash guard A formed metal guard mountable to a planter framework to prevent clogging or blockage of furrow closure means. In a particular embodiment, a trapezoidal guard plate vertically extends forward of and in centered relation to a pair of V-mounted furrow closu... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4844174 | Press wheels for seed drills A press wheel improvement for seed drills in which one or more open recesses are presented through the circular rim of the press wheel to form transverse dams along packed furrow walls. The recesses are bounded by walls that present a projecting tab exten... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4760806 | Conservation opener A single disk opener blade is supported for rotation about a horizontal axis offset approximately seven degrees from the transverse direction. A seed tube extends closely adjacent the disk blade forwardly of the rotational axis generally in the shadow of ... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4712492 | Implement position adjusting device An adjusting device permitting the operator of a planter to easily and accurately adjust the depth of planting by vertically adjusting the height of the planter frame through use of an adjustable spacer device in the support for the gauge wheels. The adju... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4691645 | Seed planter attachment An improved seed planter for a chisel plow includes a boot connected by a pair of leaf spring rods to the vertical shank of the plow. A bracket for connecting the spring rods to the boot and for gauge or press wheel attachments is detachably coupled to th... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4671193 | Planting tool A planting tool especially for minimum tillage operations has a leading rolling coulter and an elongated, rigid knife behind the coulter to hold open a slot cut in the soil by the coulter. Blades mounted on the vertical knife cut lateral slices in the soi... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4653410 | Seed planter A trailer-like apparatus adapted to be towed by a farm implement for depositing seed from a supply hopper into the ground at a controlled spacing substantially independent of the vehicle's relative ground speed. In a first embodiment, an endless chain hav... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4596200 | Row crop planter A row crop planter unit (12) has seed trench forming dixc openers (31, 32) followed by a pair of equalizer mounted planter unit support and gauge wheels (50, 64) having slicing discs (61, 66) secured to the laterally inner sides serving to cut the banks o... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4594951 | Regularizing device for the depth of a furrow The device is mounted on a seeder provided with a hopper, with a seed distributor and with a plowshare or work disk. It comprises two lateral gauge wheels mounted on two bearings borne by two arms pivotably articulated around an axis on the chassis of the... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4579071 | Packer wheel assembly Packer wheel assemblies attached to earthworking tools of a field cultivator compact soil about seeds dispensed into the soil with an air planter. Each packer wheel assembly has a body adjustably mounted on the shank of each tool and an arm pivotally conn... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4520742 | Seed planter attachment for chisel plow An attachment for a chisel plow comprising a seed planter resiliently connected to the shank of the chisel plow by means of a leaf spring rod, and gauge wheels detachably connected to the seed planter for maintaining a constant planting depth relative to ... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4519325 | Grain drill suspension system A grain drill suspension system including a support member comprising a parallelogram link structure and a walking beam member. The walking beam member has furrow cutting discs attached to a front portion thereof and a press wheel attached to a rear porti... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4430952 | Planter gauge wheels with adjustable equalizer mechanism A row crop planter unit (11) is supported by a pair of laterally spaced wheel and disc assemblies (56, 57) mounted on corresponding ends of a pair of walking beams (58, 59). The other corresponding ends of the walking beams (58, 59) are interconnected by ... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4393791 | Undercutter seed planter An undercutter seed planter in the form of an elongated tubular seed delivery member adapted to be pulled beneath the soil behind the blade of an undercutter plow. An air metering system supplies seeds to the seed delivery member and such seeds are releas... | 07/19/1983 |
