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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7156185 | Soil stabilizer with track apparatus A soil stabilizer treating earth includes a stabilizer frame, a rotor rotatably mounted thereon and including a cutting tool for cutting earth and being movable such that the rotor may engage various depths of earth, a rotatable axle, and a track apparatus mounted o... | 01/02/2007 |
| 6926092 | Hydraulic tiller assembly A tiller assembly includes a tine assembly that is rotatably connected to a tiller body and the tine assembly includes at least one tine for use in tilling associated soil. A hydraulic system is operatively connected to the tine assembly and includes a hydraulic pum... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6564879 | Locking device for a guard of soil-working machine A soil-working machine comprising a chassis, a rotor connected to the chassis, driven in rotation during work about a substantially horizontal axis directed transversely to a direction of forward travel of the machine, at least one guard connected to the ... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6431287 | Soil tiller assembly and method for tilling soil A soil tiller assembly for plowing multiple independent rows of soil includes a frame and attached thereto a coulter, a pair of tiller discs, a pair of secondary coulters, and a tilling assembly including a tiller wheel. The perimeter of the tiller wheel ... | 08/13/2002 |
| 5988037 | Mine clearing vehicle A mine clearing vehicle (1) having a milling cutter drum (2) adapted to tear up soil, plant parts, mines, etc. on or within the top soil layer. The milling cutter drum (2) may advantageously be divided into discs (7) provided with teeth (8).... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5951123 | Guard assembly for a wheel In the operation of a construction machine over terrain strewn with debris, there is a tendency for the debris to work itself into areas of sealing interface such as between an axle and the final drive assemblies of the machine. When this occurs the seals... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5850882 | Garden power tool A hand held garden tool that utilizes rechargeable batteries and a variable speed, reversible motor as its power source. A drive shaft housing serves as a long handle member and contains a drive shaft. The drive shaft and its housing are connected to, and... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5695255 | Self-powered portable rock crusher There is disclosed a rock crushing device comprising a frame housing, a rock receiving and crushing chamber having a rotatable rotor, hammers having a generally clavate-shaped profile being releasably engagable with the rotor, mounted to a vehicle such th... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5690180 | Horizontal-axis cutter for soil cultivation A horizontal-axis cutter for soil cultivation of the type comprising a horizontal-axis rotor (2) fitted with a number of blades and a gear motor (4), connected on one side to the power take-off of the tractor and on the other to the rotor, in which the ge... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5678639 | Self-contained bioremediation unit with dual auger head assembly A self-contained bioremediation unit is adapted for quick coupling to a front-end loader, bulldozer or the like with no power connections between them. It carries its own engine and fuel tank for hydraulic driving of a dual horizontal auger head assembly ... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5666794 | Flail mower attachment for a skid steer vehicle An improved skid steer vehicle that has a longitudinally extending main frame and wheels for supporting the main frame for movement over the ground. An operator's compartment spans substantially the entire lateral distance of the main frame in the fore an... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5632345 | Rototiller skirt assembly A free-floating skirt assembly for attachment to the deck of a cultivator to protect adjacent vegetation from the blades of the cultivator includes a pair of elongate straps attached to the cultivator deck with shield supports projecting outwardly from th... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5581914 | Snow cutting tooth for rotating cutter bar of ski slope tiller A snow cutting tooth design and an associated cutter assembly design incorporating such teeth, wherein the tooth is constructed with a unitary body of steel plate welded to the outside surface of a tubular cutter bar, with bevelled edges creating acute sn... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5573069 | Apparatus for a roto-shearing tiller An apparatus for pulverizing hard surfaces, the apparatus having multiple sets of elongated, curvilinear shearing blades. The shearing blades are helically mounted about a rotational shaft, adjacent sets of shearing blades mounted at an inverse pitch angl... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5524711 | Agricultural implement for forming planting rows The present invention entails an agricultural implement for forming planting rows with a minimum of tillage. The implement of the present invention is designed to form a multiplicity of rows and accordingly includes a series of side-by-side row units. Eac... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5505268 | Bidirectional field implement An implement for preparing a field includes a ground engaging device that allows the implement to be pushed or pulled on the field. The ground engaging device includes a reversible roller with projections joined to an outer surface thereof to engage the g... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5415234 | Rotor tiller skirt assembly A skirt assembly (20) for a rotor tiller (10) includes a pair of shields (21,22) positioned substantially vertically at the outer extremities of the tines; and a framework (23). The framework (23) includes a pair of strap members (24,24) mounted to the de... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5373902 | Tiltable hood assembly for an earth working machine A hood assembly includes a hood member and an adjustable length stabilizing link. The stabilizing link is movable between a first position at which the link maintains a bottom surface of the hood member in a substantially parallel relationship with a grou... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5287933 | Hood support assembly for an earth working machine A hood support assembly (18) for controllably supporting a hood member (16) on an earth working machine (10) includes a support member (20) that is pivotally mounted, at each of two end portions (22,24) to the frame (12) of the machine. Arm members (26,28... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5067264 | Flexible rotary snow tiller The flexible tiller has a center and two end sections, each including a cutter bar, frame, apron and grooming bar. The two tiller end sections are connected flexibly to the ends of the center section by frame to frame hinges and by cutter to cutter univer... | 11/26/1991 |
| 4979573 | Lawn edger apparatus This invention relates to a heavy duty commercial lawn edger apparatus utilized to achieve a new and novel contoured edge cut between adjacent portions of a grass area and a concrete or curb area. The lawn edger apparatus includes a main support base asse... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4958457 | Trench digging or root cutting device An apparatus for ditch digging or root pruning having a main frame on which a motor drive mechanism and a cutting wheel are supported. A secondary frame portion or undercarriage is pivotally attached to the main frame. The cutting wheel is preferably moun... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4938537 | End closure for a rotary cutter housing An end closure for the cutter housing of a road planer in which a pair of self-opening and self-closing cover plates provide a protective cover over a shaft clearance opening in the end wall of the housing. The cover plates, pivotally mounted on an extern... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4892154 | Ground-working apparatus with rotary tiller A ground-working implement which comprises a rotary tiller or like groundosening unit and a smoothing board located behind the tiller. Both the unit and the smoothing board are subdivided generally centrally and the sections are connected by a ball and h... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4869115 | Automatic soil sampling machine The present invention entails an automatic soil sampling machine that is pulled through the field by a prime mover. A disk is utilized and is power driven by an internal combustion engine or other power source. About the outer circumference of the disk th... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4775014 | Ground-working implement A ground-working implement for rotary field tilling or ice or snow-tending n ski slopes or the like which is drawn by a tractor or a tracked vehicle and which comprises a holder connected to the vehicle pendulously by a longitudinal beam which can be raise... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4718499 | Tractor-powered cultivator with swingable baffles A tractor-powered cultivator with powered cultivating tools, with a trailing roller behind the tools, and with upright baffles that extend at least approximately along the direction of travel, that are positioned laterally next to the outer tools to block... | 01/12/1988 |
| 4704045 | Apparatus and method for pulverizing asphalt An apparatus and method for pulverizing asphalt on roadways and similar applications. The asphalt is pulverized by a rotating drum with removable cutting tips which engage a soften underside of the roadway prior to engaging a harder more compact top surfa... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4669549 | Rake device for rotary cultivators A tiller cover assembly covering a rotary tiller unit is provided inside thereof with rake members arranged at a spacing along the width of cultivation for sieving lumps or blocks of soil carried around by the tiller unit. Each of the raker members is mad... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4664201 | Rear shield mounted on cultivating machine frame The rear shield of the cultivating machine consists of a lower horizontal bar (4) which can be raised and lowered substantially vertically relatively to the machine frame (1) and of a pivoting upper bonnet (5) which has its upper edge (6) pivotally connec... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4637753 | Road planar having particle reducing means A road planar which includes a secondary cutter in the planar behind the primary cutter with grids between the primary and secondary cutters and following the secondary cutter to size and cooperate with the secondary cutter in reducing the particle size o... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4607580 | Crop planting means A second crop is planted in a field by first cutting and removing the majority of a first crop from the field, seeding the field with the second crop, and then immediately applying the cut portion of the first crop over the seeded field as a mulch. A plan... | 08/26/1986 |
| 4591001 | Garden tillers A toolbar attachment assembly for a rear tine rotary tiller having a tine guard and forward wheels. The toolbar attachment assembly is secured to the tiller in place of the drag stake. A V-shaped brace allows for the assembly to be attached without removi... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4586444 | Liquid chemical incorporator assembly Liquid applications of materials such as herbicides usually are broadcast over the field and then incorporated by harrowing or the like. The present device utilizes a plurality of open based boxes having a rotary cultivator therein with a spray nozzle att... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4560009 | Apparatus for pulverizing aggregate masses of frangible materials on and below earth surfaces An improved apparatus for pulverizing aggregate masses of frangible materials deposited on and below earth surfaces, the apparatus having a frame; a power driven, substantially cylindrical rotor mounted on the frame and providing a plurality of radially e... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4512414 | Rotary tiller A rotary tiller having a housing defining a hydraulic fluid reservoir and rotatably support a tine shaft. A hydraulic motor is mounted to the housing in driving communication with the tine shaft. A pump unit is remotely located on an associated tractor. T... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4503630 | Ditch digging machine A ditch digging machine comprising a frame including a pair of vertical posts and a cross bar connecting the upper ends of said vertical posts, wheels supporting the lower ends of the vertical posts, a housing including a convex hood having forward and re... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4458763 | Soil stabilizer machine with recycler screen The present invention relates to a soil stabilizer machine with a recycler screen. The soil stabilizer machine includes a horizontal rotor having a plurality of teeth along a periphery thereof. In operation, the machine moves along the ground and the roto... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4436161 | Soil cultivating implements A soil cultivating implement having an elongated frame portion which extends substantially horizontally perpendicular to the direction of travel of the implement mounts a side plate at each lateral end. The frame portion carries a row of rotary tined soil... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4433734 | Soil cultivating implement A soil working implement has a row of soil working tools that displace soil rearwardly and laterally. A side-plate is pivoted to each side of the implement frame and positioned adjacent the outer ends of the row to arrest the lateral movement of the soil.... | 02/28/1984 |
