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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6553925 | No-till stubble row seeder guidance system and method The invention provides a method of reducing plugging of a no-till seeder with crop residue by guiding the furrow openers of the seeder between the standing stubble rows of the previous crop. A guidance system is provided comprising sensing means to sense ... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6223663 | Trash cleaning structure for a furrow opening device A shallow-toothed clearing disk pivotally supported from the upper end of the opener drawbar assembly. A four bar linkage is connected to the forward end of the drawbar by a bracket which includes at least one link and corresponding pivot structure locate... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6116172 | Shank-mounted row chop opener A shank-mounted opener assembly connected to a seed distribution system is provided for both till and no-till operations. The opener assembly includes a spike member that is supported on the shank, a firming point, a seed sensor connected to the seed supp... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6032593 | Grain drill opener with separate placement and a concave disk therefor A combination seed and fertilizer opener having separate placement includes a first angled flat disk with a gauge wheel arrangement providing an initial furrow for a first material such as fertilizer. A second opener disk, smaller than the first and conca... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5862764 | Method and apparatus for a floating frame field harrow A method and apparatus for a harrow is provided, and more particularly to a harrow implement with a terrain following frame, able to be pulled by a tractor. The improved harrow includes a main frame that supports at least a floating frame on which harrowi... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5752454 | No-till disk opening system and method A method and apparatus for improved agricultural seeding; especially useful in no-till direct seeding. In the illustrated embodiment an inclined furrow is cut with a rotating disk that is inclined with respect to the vertical and the horizontal; the furro... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5724902 | Minimum tillage seeding device A seeding device principally for no-tillage seeding conditions comprises a drag arm carrying two disk blades and transmitting the necessary forces thereto to cut through crop residues at the ground surface and to open a furrow for seed placement in the so... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5704430 | Ground driven row cleaning apparatus An improved row cleaning apparatus to selectively clean away residue from conservation tilled fields without cultivation of the soil. When mounted on tractor-drawn implements, including planters, the cleaning action of the present invention improves depth... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5660126 | Method and apparatus for no-till planting A no-till farming apparatus is provided for use with a planter unit which plants seeds as the planter unit is pulled along a predetermined path. The apparatus includes a hiller device coupled to the planter unit. The hiller device is configured to form an... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5640914 | Debris manipulating and clearing assembly for clearing crop residue from soil An apparatus and process for manipulating and clearing crop residue or other debris from a zone of soil before tilling the zone of soil to form a seedbed. The apparatus may be attached to the tool bar of a farm implement and includes a pair of fingered wh... | 06/24/1997 |
| 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 |
| 5609114 | No-till disk opening system and method A method and apparatus for improved agricultural seeding; especially useful in no-till direct seeding. In the illustrated embodiment an inclined furrow is cut with a rotating disk that is inclined with respect to the vertical and the horizontal; the furro... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5603269 | Mechanism for planting agricultural seed A mechanism for planting agricultural seed. The mechanism has a frame to be drawn by a towing vehicle in a forward direction, a seed supply hopper on the frame, structure on the frame for directing seed from the hopper to a delivery point adjacent to a su... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5413056 | Method and apparatus for no-till planting A no-till planting apparatus and method is disclosed for use with a planter unit which plants seeds as the planter unit is pulled along a predetermined path. The planter unit includes a double disk opener for cutting a furrow at a predetermined depth and ... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5279236 | Seed planter A seed drill for planting seed in untilled ground. The drill is pulled by a prime mover and includes an array of double disk furrow opening assemblies in conjunction with a seed dispensing mechanism. The seed drill is equipped with an array of forwardly l... | 01/18/1994 |
| 4525988 | Combine planter implement A planter attachment is installed on an agricultural combine between the throat portion and cutter head thereof. The planter attachment includes a transversely extended forward tool bar carried on a mounting frame adapted for connection to the cutter head... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4466364 | Planter attachment The invention relates to agricultural implements for planting. Increased efficiency of planting in general and incorporating fertilizer in particular in no-till situations is achieved by frame, disk and knife assemblies (14, 15, 16) mounting a disk (44) i... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4407371 | Coulter attachment for seed planting apparatus Apparatus is disclosed which facilitates the ready attachment and detachment of coulters to a standard seed planting device. The seed planting device is typically of a type that is towed behind a tractor and automatically furrows the ground, deposits the ... | 10/04/1983 |
| 4377979 | Conservation tillage row crop planter system The planter includes a number of forward tillage units each followed by an aligned planting unit. Both units are independently mounted by four-bar linkages to the planter frame. Each tillage unit includes a leading banded coulter followed by a pair of rol... | 03/29/1983 |
| 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 |
| 4285284 | Seeder with pivoting soil breakers A soil cultivating implement has a row of pivotable soil working members linked to a transverse beam of the frame and individual eccentrics are connected to the members to raise and lower soil engaging portions thereof. The portions are pivoted so that th... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4278036 | Rotary tiller slot planter and method for using same The rotary tiller slot planter of the present invention comprises a subsoiler shank positioned to engage the soil and make a trench therein. A pair of rotary tiller blades are rotatably mounted on the opposite sides of the sub-soil shank in planes paralle... | 07/14/1981 |
| 4267783 | Seed bed preparation method and apparatus A farm implement is provided having a sub-soiler followed by a seed bed preparation tool and a planter. The seed bed preparation tool includes a rotary bladed portion for filling in the furrow left by the sub-soiler with soil turned up by the sub-soiler a... | 05/19/1981 |
| 4244306 | Minimum tillage planter A planter for seed crops, such as grains. A wheeled framework supports the apparatus for movement about a field. At the front of the framework is a row of transversely spaced chisels which produce tilled areas parallel to the path of movement of the frame... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4244522 | Liquid storage and distribution apparatus for agricultural implements Apparatus for storing and distributing a liquid from a mobile agricultural implement is provided. The apparatus includes an improved vent structure carried in the upper portion of fluid storage tanks supported on the implement, with the vent structure bei... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4241674 | Sub-soil planter A sub-soil planter machine has a frame, including front and rear transverse tool bars; a plurality of sub-soil blades mounted on and transversely spaced along the front tool bar; a plurality of rotary tilling assemblies mounted on and transversely spaced ... | 12/30/1980 |
| 4232616 | Device for selectively applying liquid manure onto or into the ground A manure spreader, in combination with a tractor, consisting of a tank with a horizontal axis aligned with the normal movement of the tractor which tows it. A comminuter is provided between the tractor and the tank which has an inlet from the tank near it... | 11/11/1980 |
| 4227581 | Ground preparing apparatus for no-till planting Ground preparing apparatus for seed planting comprising a frame adapted to be drawn along a field by a tractor or the like connected to the leading end of the frame and with a planting machine connected to the trailing end of the frame. A colter disc rota... | 10/14/1980 |
| 4213408 | Combination ripper, mixer and planter An agricultural implement is disclosed which is adapted to perform soil ripping, mixing, and seed planting behind a single prime mover. Soil ripping is accomplished by a parabolic pointed shank attached to a frame by a pivot bolt and secured by a shear bo... | 07/22/1980 |
| 4212254 | Tiller planter with modified seed bed finishing implement A tractor-drawn machine adapted to perform tilling, seed bed preparation, and planting in a single operation, comprises a frame from which plow units, a reel unit, a seed bed finishing implement and seed planting units are mounted seriatim. The attitude o... | 07/15/1980 |
| 4191262 | Agriculture light tillage implement and tool mounting mechanism therefor A light soil tillage implement is adapted to be drawn by a farm tractor, and is designed to perform a light tillage immediately preceeding fertilizing, planting, and/or other farming operations. The implement comprises a frame having support wheels thereo... | 03/04/1980 |
| 4187916 | Soil conditioning and seed bed preparing apparatus Soil conditioning apparatus is disclosed which has a front coulter assembly, preferably with a fluted coulter, for preparing a narrow path wider than the following subsoiler shank by cutting trash and breaking and slitting the topsoil. Following the front... | 02/12/1980 |
| 4180005 | Tiller planter with modified soil leveling and pulverizing unit A tractor-drawn machine adapted to perform tilling, seed bed preparation, and planting in a single operation, comprises a frame from which plow units, a soil leveling and pulverizing unit, a seed bed finishing implement and seed planting units are mounted... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4141302 | Furrow opener and apparatus for no-tillage transplanters and planters A new apparatus for opening furrows in soil is disclosed. Specifically, this apparatus consists of an opening mechanism, a closing mechanism, an automatic seed planting mechanism, an automatic seedling planting mechanism, a driving means, a towing means, ... | 02/27/1979 |
| 4124079 | Driven implement connected to rockable motor of a vehicle A self-propelled tiller-planter including a motor providing hydraulic motive power for various operating mechanisms. A tiller pushed by said planter and hydraulic means is provided for lifting and lowering the tiller assembly into inoperative position abo... | 11/07/1978 |
| 4100862 | 4-Row trac planter A frame is provided from which front and rear pairs of opposite side wheels are journalled. A prime mover is mounted on the frame and drivingly connected to at least one pair of the wheels thereof. The frame defines a longitudinal center line and the whee... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4078626 | Agriculture machine In an agricultural machine, four attachment compartments are provided, a first one in the front of the machine, a second in the rear of the machine, and a third and a fourth between the first and second attachment compartments. In each compartment, a work... | 03/14/1978 |
| 4077478 | Down pressure control mechanism for grain drills A down pressure control for use with furrow openers in grain drills which provides a spring load for maintaining down pressure on the furrow opener during normal operating conditions and which can be at relatively high rate to permit minimum tillage, or w... | 03/07/1978 |
| 4062305 | Crop interseeding implement A self-propelled implement is specially constructed to plant seeds such as beans between rows of a tall growing crop such as wheat. The frame members of the implement are supported above the growing crop on top of selectively spaced front and rear wheel a... | 12/13/1977 |
| 4055126 | Sub-soil breaking, surface-soil conditioning and planter machine In a preferred embodiment of the invention, a trailer-like multi-sectioned frame is mounted on supporting spaced-apart wheels adjustable intermittently of the height of the frame and having mounted on the various sections of the frame, functional elements... | 10/25/1977 |
