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Class 171/62 - With digger or root cutter


Subclass of Class 171 - Unearthing plants or buried objects
Definition: Apparatus including a means to (1) agitate, plow or otherwise
No. of patents: 23
Last issue date: 11/15/2011


NumberTitleIssue Date
8056644Agricultural mechanized system for pulling-off and chopping stubs of cotton plants and similar agricultures
Agricultural mechanized system for pulling-off and chopping stubs of cotton plants and similar agricultures, especially of a agricultural mechanized system coupled to a tractor, to plow and pull off the stubs preferably from the cotton agricultures and similar cultu...
11/15/2011
7381010System and method for removal of buried objects
The present invention is a system and method for removal of buried objects. According to one embodiment of the invention, a crane with a vibrator casing driver is used to lift and suspend a large diameter steel casing over the buried object. Then the casing is drive...
06/03/2008
7063168Device for removing plants or the like from ground
The invention relates to a device for removing plants or the like from the ground. The device comprises an elongated shaft, a ground support pivoted to a first end of the shaft transversely in relation to the longitudinal axis thereof and at least two blades includi...
06/20/2006
6913085Single standard double disk configuration
A double disk C-spring standard assembly utilizes bearings mounted to a simple carrier plate. The plate is connected to the lower end of a single C-spring oriented in the fore-and-aft direction. Bearing assembly mounting holes in the plate define the necessary gang ...
07/05/2005
6561108Plantman spherical transplanter
The present invention is a mechanical tree transplanting attachment that replaces the bucket of a loader-motor vehicle. The attachment is capable of excavating and planting a tree and root ball using a single hemispherical scoop with a fixture nestled wit...
05/13/2003
6484810Mechanical harvester for harvesting bulb crops
A mechanical harvester for harvesting, topping and sacking bulb crops, such as onions. The harvester extracts the onions from the ground and transports them rearward to a cutting assembly by conveyor systems that drop out small onions, dirt, rocks and deb...
11/26/2002
5613566Row crop stalk and root remover
A multiple rig row crop cultivator with first and second concave disks supported for operation at two different depths from adjacent rigs to provide two-step sizing of residue. The first disk, located ahead of the second disk, operates at a first depth in...
03/25/1997
5577562Harvester for root crops and method of using same
The stems and limbs of a root crop plant are lifted from the ground, folded over a gathering bar, and grasped by an auger-paddle. The roots below the crop are severed by a cutter bar which resembles a rod weeder. While the crop is held the soil beneath th...
11/26/1996
5366023Apparatus for retrieving drip tape
A wagon pulled along a plant bed for retrieving buried drip tape includes a cultivator disc for loosening the soil to free the drip tape which is then drawn upward and onto the wagon through the use of a rotating drum that rotates at such a speed that its...
11/22/1994
5350020Multi-crop harvester/windrower implement
A multi-crop harvester/windrower farm implement may be pushed before a tractor or harvester, to harvest and/or windrow a crop. The implement includes a frame having a plurality of horizontal arms at ground level, which support and position a crop dissocia...
09/27/1994
5297898Apparatus for extracting drip irrigation tubing
Apparatus for extracting conduit buried in the ground includes a frame, rippers carried on the frame, and a take-up assembly mounted on the frame to draw the conduit from the ground while the apparatus is moving in a selected direction of travel. The ripp...
03/29/1994
4934461Peanut digger and vine inverter
A peanut vine digging and vine inverting apparatus is disclosed consisting of a plurality of diggers in the form of modified discs; a tap root cutter for each row of diggers and means for positioning the vines on the ground with the peanuts upwardly to be...
06/19/1990
4796711Apparatus for removing plastic film from raised plant beds
An apparatus used in agriculture and more specifically to an apparatus for removing the plastic film cover from raised plant beds in which the edges thereof are tucked under soil placed in overlying relation to the downwardly inclined side edges of the pl...
01/10/1989
4779684Method and apparatus for extracting plant stalks and for reshaping beds
Apparatus for removing upstanding plant stalks from the ground and for mulching the stalks. The apparatus includes simplified disk mechanisms which can be adapted both to cut and mulch plant stalks....
10/25/1988
4648463Weeder 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
4633955Digger for root crops
A digger for root crops, such as peanuts, includes two or more digger units depended from a frame drafted by a tractor. Each digger unit includes a screw conveyor, a guide pair helically wrapped 180° around the screw conveyor, and a hydraulic motor to ro...
01/06/1987
4629005Bulb, 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
4607703Peanuts 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
4588033Cotton root cutter and shredder
An apparatus for uprooting and shredding cotton plants after harvest includes a below ground cutting blade having a forward cutting edge inclined rearwardly and to one side of the implement, which blade cooperates with an oppositely inclined above ground ...
05/13/1986
4332093Apparatus for uprooting shrubs and the like
A machine for cutting shrubs and other plants from the soil and for lifting them with their root balls intact to deposit them upon the ground or in a previously formed hole for transplanting, comprises a support mounted on the three-point hitch of a tract...
06/01/1982
4271611Tractor-mounted laterally undercutting transplant digging machine
A commercially available four-wheel-drive loader has a conventional "quick-attachment" front plate liftable by operator-controllable hydraulic-cylinder means; and it has the transplant digging machine easily detachably mounted on said front plate for move...
06/09/1981
4185696Row 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
4015667Cotton stalk and root shredder with re-bedder
A root and stalk shredder having a frame, a pair of longitudinally extending, parallel, power driven lifting rollers rotatably mounted on the frame and extending longitudinally parallel to a path of travel of the shredder, guide means mounted on the frame...
04/05/1977
 
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