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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7062899 | Lettuce harvesting apparatus and method therefor A mobile harvesting apparatus and method, which permits the automated harvesting of produce, preferably lettuce. The apparatus consists in its most basic form of a vehicle having a bandsaw positioned at a front portion thereof, the blade of which is positioned to sl... | 06/20/2006 |
| 6996964 | Lettuce harvesting method A mobile harvesting method, which permits the automated harvesting of produce, preferably lettuce. The apparatus consists in its most basic form of a vehicle having a bandsaw positioned at a front portion thereof, the blade of which is positioned to slice the lettuc... | 02/14/2006 |
| 5201910 | Apparatus for handling tree seedlings A plant seedling handling apparatus is described which comprises a pair of parallel belts, each of which carries a series of grippers. During loading of the storage device each belt is fed from separate storage means via guide spools which create a nip be... | 04/13/1993 |
| 4921050 | Plant extractor and cultivating apparatus Plant extracting apparatus is provided by the present invention which utilizes spaced pairs of endless belts having adjacent runs which extend from an inlet adjacent the ground towards an elevated outlet above a cutter assembly. The adjacent runs of the b... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4751812 | Stalk puller and shredder machine A machine for shredding stalk, particularly that of cotton, is disclosed which comprises a wheeled frame adapted to be trailed along crop rows, a power driven unit, and a stalk puller device. The device comprises a pair of frictionally coupled rollers, at... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4687064 | Green peanut harvester A harvester for harvesting green peanuts is moved along a peanut bed. A plant conveyor using an angled pair of back-to-back V-belts is arranged to cause the belts to grip the stem area of peanut plants and, as the belts move rearward and the harvester mov... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4648463 | Weeder for removing weeds having various lengths A weeder for removing weeds in a golf course or the like has: a body to be moved along a ground surface; a weeding unit arranged such that a first winding transmission member mounted on the body has weed fetch rods arranged at predetermined intervals; a d... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4629005 | Bulb, root, and leafy vegetable harvester A harvester for bulb, root and leafy vegetable products including stationary blades (31, 32), rotatable discs (131, 132) or the like which are transported at an angle through opposite sides of a product plant bed to loosen the soil, cut the root system, a... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4607703 | Peanuts harvester and its harvesting method A peanuts harvester includes a truck body, plant row dividers, stalk straighteners, peanut diggers, a plant feeder, a tilted conveyer, a horizontal conveyer, a peanut stripper and a peanut collector such that the dug peanut plants are conveyed to the hori... | 08/26/1986 |
| 4509536 | Tobacco stripper Two gears or cogwheels rotating in opposite directions and constructed so that the cogs of each fit most of the way, but not all of the way, in to the grooves or notches of the other, but not enough to intermesh or completely fill the gaps to strip leaves... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4470245 | Cotton harvesting method and machine A method of harvesting cotton includes cutting the cotton plant a short distance above ground, clampingly hold the bush with its main stem substantially in the vertical and imparting revolving movement to the plant at high speed, thus causing cotton bolls... | 09/11/1984 |
| 4445557 | Colter tree cutting system A method and apparatus for severing trees and other similar objects extending at least partially above and at least partially below the surface of the ground. A frame member which is mountable on a vehicle is moved in a substantially horizontal plane abov... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4425722 | Apparatus for removing stakes from the ground An apparatus is disclosed which is mountable upon a tractor for removing stakes from the ground and for collecting the stakes. The apparatus includes a support framework and a stake loosening means disposed on the framework. The stake loosening means incl... | 01/17/1984 |
| 4373323 | Tobacco leaf stripper A tobacco stripper has a pair of counter-rotating gear belts which are used to separate tobacco leaves from tobacco stalks when the stalk is advanced into a nip formed by the counter-rotating belts.... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4326590 | Plant-harvesting device for use with variable crop row spacing The invention is a plant lifting apparatus of the opposed belt type that can be quickly adjusted in the field to accommodate different plant row spacings. The lifting belts are carried on individual supporting frames. These, in turn, are pivotally mounted... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4275649 | Mechanical buncher for leafy vegetables An automatic vegetable buncher for use in combination with a mechanical harvester of leafy green vegetables conveys the greens to a packing station where a pair of packer fingers driven by a novel rectangular motion generator incrementally feeds the green... | 06/30/1981 |
| 4263972 | Agricultural stake puller Apparatus for moving along rows of agricultural beds for pulling and collecting stakes therefrom. A stake-pulling element is suspended from framework attached to a wheeled collection bin and from a framework attached to a towing vehicle. A pair of endless... | 04/28/1981 |
| 4218070 | Unpowered support vehicle A belted-track vehicle, unpowered and attached to a cantilevered apparatus to support the apparatus clear of the ground and adapted to be driven by the apparatus.... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4185696 | Row crop harvester with adjustable picking heads A row crop harvester is provided with mechanism for mounting two picking heads for both vertical and horizontal adjustment of the ground engaging lower ends of the heads, to simultaneously harvest two rows of plants which may vary in spacing from each oth... | 01/29/1980 |
| 4182420 | Root crop harvester and trimmer A harvester and trimmer for carrots, which can also be used on root crops such as red beets, turnips, parsnips and rutabaga, embodies a wheeled vehicle having a conventional plowshare and an upwardly and rearwardly extending harvesting frame. The harvesti... | 01/08/1980 |
| 4173257 | Root crop harvester A two-row crop harvester for carrots, beets, etc. has a wheeled chassis with a forward cab disposed to one side of a pair of lifter frame assemblies. Each lifter frame assembly has a main component with a forwardly gathering element rigidly connected to a... | 11/06/1979 |
| 4136509 | Apparatus for harvesting vegetable heads Apparatus for harvesting vegetable heads is disclosed. A sensing means including a pair of parallel, laterally movable, head-engaging units, which are counter-rotated, is fixed to a frame. A cutting means is mounted on the frame and is responsive to the s... | 01/30/1979 |
| 4135580 | Plant extractor A travelling machine for pulling off green plants or stalks from subterraneous potatoes and like tuberous crops. The machine has a pair of endless belts of which two contacting runs together move in a direction opposite to the direction of travel of the m... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4122901 | Unpowered support vehicle A belted-track vehicle, unpowered and attached to a cantilevered apparatus to support the apparatus clear of the ground and adapted to be driven by the apparatus.... | 10/31/1978 |
| 4113022 | Plant puller The invention achieves a mechanical device for pulling seedling plants from the ground in greenhouses and for conveying them by conveyor to a collection receptacle for grading the more mature or better quality plants. Essentially the invention includes an... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4037666 | Apparatus for harvesting and bundling plants Leafy and woody plants are harvested by holding the uprooted plants in a guided path while they are being removed. The uprooted and removed plants are classified and counted by a counter along the path to establish a minimum standard size to which the cou... | 07/26/1977 |
| 3989110 | Green onion harvester A green onion harvester is disclosed, which harvester includes a plurality of means for grasping the foliage, severing the roots, withdrawing the green onions from the soil, sorting out undersized green onions, removing the lower leaves, and depositing th... | 11/02/1976 |
| 3968842 | Tomato plant harvesting apparatus A plant picking and boxing apparatus is mounted on a wheeled frame and includes an engine for driving the wheeled frame by a hydraulic system. Parallel mounted endless belts are supported on the frame and grip tomato plants, or the like planted in rows, a... | 07/13/1976 |
| 3964550 | Tree seedling harvester A mobile device for harvesting tree seedlings includes means for subsurface cutting to separate and loosen from the surrounding ground the body of earth adjoining the roots of the tree seedlings. The movement and relative position of the earth separating ... | 06/22/1976 |
