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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176991 | Powered rolling and crimping device for crop termination The powered rolling and crimping device is used to terminate cover crops in a minimum tillage soil conservation system. The device includes a powered crimping mechanism in combination with a crop roller. Power is transferred from a tractor power takeoff to a plurali... | 05/15/2012 |
| 7604067 | Roller system for cover crop termination A cover crop termination system includes a smooth drum and a crimping arm assembly operatively connected to the drum through a cam mechanism including a cam follower. The crimping arm assembly includes a plurality of crimping assemblies having crimping bars which cr... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7549481 | Parallel link mounting arm for a furrow opener A trailing arm furrow opener apparatus includes a furrow opener bracket attached to the rear link of a parallel link assembly such that the furrow opener bracket and furrow opener attached thereto is maintained in a constant fore and aft angular orientation as the a... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7313902 | Folding deck mechanism A lawn mowing machine having a mower deck with pivoting side wing sections. The pivoting side wing sections can be pivoted upward relative to the main deck housing. When the side wing sections are raised, the mowing machine is presented with a more narrow profile to... | 01/01/2008 |
| 6499542 | Roller vehicle for ground compaction A roller vehicle for ground compaction has a ground compacting device operative for compacting ground; and a levelling device for levelling the ground.... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6382873 | Soil levelling device The invention concerns a levelling device (10) for an impact roller of the type having at least one out-of-round compactor mass which, when caused to traverse a soil surface, applies periodic compacting blows to that surface. The levelling device of the i... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6381879 | Agricultural ditching method and apparatus A method and apparatus for forming a relatively shallow drainage ditch diagonally across crop rows, the apparatus, drawn or fitted to a tractor, incorporates a rotating cutting disk set semi-vertical and at obtuse angles to the direction of travel. The di... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6119792 | Land smoother and packer system A land smoother and packer system for smoothing and packing irregularities in a ground surface. The inventive device includes a frame, a plurality of wheels, a right blade pivotally attached to the frame, a center blade attached to the frame, a left blade... | 09/19/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5531171 | Liquid product device A plurality of digging devices are mounted side by side on the same beam which is coupled to a clamping system of a vehicle or of a tank containing the liquid to be buried. Each device comprises, mounted on the same chassis, at least a disk for forming an... | 07/02/1996 |
| 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 |
| 5487429 | Spring tooth harrow packer A spring tooth harrow packer comprising a transversely extending draw bar which is wheel supported and which has a hitch extending forwardly therefrom for attachment to a tractor. A plurality of harrow sections are secured to the draw bar and are position... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5398770 | Cultivator A chisel cultivator for post-planting cultivation. The cultivator includes a main frame. A chisel member has one end portion coupled to the frame and a second end portion spaced from the first end portion along a longitudinal axis of the chisel member for... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5390745 | Cultivator with sweep and sifting assemblies A cultivator for post-planting cultivation. The cultivator includes a main frame. A chisel member has one end portion coupled to the frame and a second end portion spaced from the first end portion along a longitudinal axis of the chisel member for cultiv... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5052495 | Implement hitch A hitch for connecting a first implement to a second implement pulled behind a tractor is disclosed which has a first parallel linkage assembly with two upright members with upper and lower portions, the upper portions of the upright members being connect... | 10/01/1991 |
| 4813489 | Foldable packer harrow implement An agricultural implement useful to prepare the ground before or after a seeding operation includes a number of soil packer units which are directly coupled to transversely extending tool bars or frame members ahead of respective, trailing harrow sections... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4687065 | Soil-inversion cultivator A cultivator comprises an array of laterally-spaced soil-inversion discs having their centers arranged in a substantially horizontal line lying at not more than 30° to a transverse plane of the cultivator and being mounted for rotation about individual a... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4408551 | Row planter A row planter having an improved opening means preferably used in combination with a furrow forming shoe. The opening means includes an unitary, disc means mounted for rotation about a horizontal axis and the shoe is mounted so that a peripheral portion t... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4323126 | Ridge mulch tillage method and apparatus A method for preparing a field which has crop residue rows for subsequent row crop planting comprises cutting a plurality of furrows between crop residue rows and lifting and turning over the soil from the furrows into ridges, and simultaneously scraping ... | 04/06/1982 |
| 4278368 | Apparatus and method for compacting material PCT No. PCT/US79/00495 Sec. 371 Date July 11, 1979 Sec. 102(e) Date July 11, 1979 PCT Filed July 11, 1979 A compacting apparatus (10) has an impact apparatus (17) and a compactor (19). The impact apparatus (17), such as, for example, a rock breaker, provi... | 07/14/1981 |
| 4098344 | Earthworking implement The present invention relates to an earthworking implement or attachment adapted to be connected to and powered by a prime mover such as a tractor, front-end loader, or the like. More particularly, the earthworking implement of the present invention is de... | 07/04/1978 |
| 4088196 | Soil cultivating implements A cultivator implement has a row of freely rotatable soil working members connected to a transverse frame beam by brackets. The members each have a stub shaft secured to an inclined web of a corresponding bracket so that the axis of rotation of each membe... | 05/09/1978 |
| 3963079 | Cultivator A cultivator for conditioning the earth surface along row crops, the cultivator having a frame adapted for earth traversing movement along rows of such crops; scraper blade assemblies mounted on the frame for floating action; and earth surface engaging, b... | 06/15/1976 |
