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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7322302 | Seedling planter A heavy-duty seedling planter for reforestation comprises specially configured coulter wheels that form a unique seedbed furrow. An elongated, rigid frame includes a front towing connection, and a rear strut for mounting trailing furrow compaction wheels. The plante... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7246563 | Pivot assembly for planter closing wheel frame A pivot assembly is provided for attaching a closing wheel frame to a planter. The closing wheel frame has a pair of closing wheels attached at a rear end and a pair of mounting openings formed at a front end. The pivot assembly includes ball bearings having outer r... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7156186 | Strip-till conditioning rotary reel These and other objects and objectives are attained by providing an soil conditioning rotary reel for a strip-till primary tillage system, the rotary reel having a particular cross-sectional profile that forms the soil into a uniform raised berm ideally suited for p... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7104341 | Low disturbance deep tillage point Ripper point structure includes a nose with a tapered top that initiates lift and fracture of compacted soil layers. The tapered top with an included angle of about 100 degrees just forward of the parting wear shin creates a parting stress which increases until the ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7017675 | One-pass primary tillage machine A one-pass primary tillage machine provides a combination of shallow and deep tillage, residue cutting and mixing, and clod size reduction and leveling of the field to prepare the field for the next planting season. A front group of flat coulters slice through the r... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6918343 | Pivot assembly for planter closing wheel frame A pivot assembly is provided for attaching a closing wheel frame to a planter. The closing wheel frame has a pair of closing wheels attached at a rear end and a pair of mounting openings formed at a front end. The pivot assembly includes ball bearings having outer r... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6612378 | One-pass tillage implement and method for improving crop root development, plant health and crop yields A one-pass field tillage implement and method which maintains a uniform soil density throughout the crop root zone for greater root development, improved plant health and greater yields by eliminating tillage of the soil at seed planting depths. The imple... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6182770 | Adjustable crop thinner An adjustable crop thinning device configured for mounting on an attachment frame for pulling behind an agricultural vehicle such as a tractor in a field of row crops. The attachment frame is oriented generally transverse to the direction of motion of the... | 02/06/2001 |
| 5921324 | Device for clearing and seeding range land The invention comprises an apparatus for clearing range land of sagebrush an other invading non-grazing plant species. The device is adapted to be towed by a tractor, and has a pair of blades arranged in a "V" configuration, with the point of the "V" faci... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5797460 | Straight bar tillage implement A tillage implement includes straight bar ripper structure with a main forward toolbar supporting subsoiler shanks from special brackets which can also support coulters ahead of the shanks independently of additional toolbar structure. An optional rear or... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5732780 | Implement for making angled water retention depressions and mounds Apparatus is disclosed which is adapted to form a series of angled depressions with raised sides in the row space between adjacent row lines of a row crop. The depressions and raised mounds between them are oriented at an acute angle relate to the row lin... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5704431 | Active face packer wheel The invention provides a packer wheel to be towed behind agricultural equipment such as an air seeder, the wheel being used to pack the soil in which seed or fertilizer has been placed. The packer wheel includes a hub and a body extending from the hub to ... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5689906 | Method and apparatus for preparing ground surface for tree planting An apparatus and method for preparing sites for planting tree seedlings, and more particularly establishing mounds on the ground surface formed of soil scooped from the ground. The apparatus may be of the pull type having a pair of scoops and scoop operat... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5628372 | Land management apparatus for creating irrigation pools The invention concerns an apparatus which is both land and roadworthy and which is for use in land management. The apparatus comprises wheel or drum members on which it travels which members are provided with friction free or self-cleaning ridges which wh... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5622227 | Multi-functioned farm implement for treating soil A farm implement has a rigid frame from which is supported a mechanism for breaking and loosening compacted soil. A first plurality of S-tines are supported by the frame and disposed behind the breaking and loosening mechanism. Each S-tine has a sweep dis... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5477792 | Apparatus for preparing soil for seed and method of using the apparatus A method of continuously applying an additive to soil with a soil treating apparatus as the soil treating apparatus is advanced in a travel direction along a planting path on soil being treated. The method includes the steps of resituating residue in the ... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5474135 | Minimum tillage implement A tillage implement for preparing seed beds for planting seeds for row crops. The implement includes deep tillage units for loosening soil behind the wheels of a tractor, additional deep tillage units for loosening soil in the areas where seed beds are lo... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5461994 | Seed drill planting assembly A seed drill includes a novel planting assembly combining press wheels for packing angular sides of a furrow and a runner immediately behind and longitudinally aligned with the press wheel. The runner extends rearwardly from beneath the press wheel and is... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5309852 | Seed drill A seed drill includes a novel planting assembly combining press wheels for packing angular sides of a furrow and a runner immediately behind and longitudinally aligned with the press wheel. The runner extends rearwardly from beneath the press wheel and is... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5152349 | Coulter assembly for deep tillage apparatus A primary tillage apparatus includes a plurality of primary tillage tools and a coulter assembly for each primary tillage tool including first and second coulters positioned directly forward of the primary tillage tool, the coulters being mounted to diver... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5062488 | Small terrace generating machine with lateral dammers An apparatus is disclosed to perform a method of tilling the soil on a crop field that: will hold rainwater where it falls, increase the percolation rate of this water into the soil, and provide storage room above and below ground level for this water. Th... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5040617 | Active harrow An active harrow comprises a rotatable cylindrical body on the outer surface of which is mounted a plurality of tines which project outwardly for engaging the ground. The rotatable body is carried in a yoke and supported from a tool bar in a manner which ... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5020604 | Dual tillage implement A combination tillage and incorporating implement having widely spaced sweeps in several rows at the forward portion of the main frame with tow trailing rows of angled spider wheels supported in pairs, for ground contour following ability and ease and fle... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4844174 | Press wheels for seed drills A press wheel improvement for seed drills in which one or more open recesses are presented through the circular rim of the press wheel to form transverse dams along packed furrow walls. The recesses are bounded by walls that present a projecting tab exten... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4726428 | Agricultural tillage unit A minimum upper ground layer and stubble disturbance tillage unit is provided including a pair of dependingly support opposite side plates between whose lower end a horizontally elongated blade assembly is supported with the blade assembly including front... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4560010 | Soil layer cultivator with a pressure roller unit To prevent the development of clods on the soil surface when using a soil layer cultivator for the deep loosening of a field or the like, a pressure roller is provided to travel over the soil surface rearwardly of the elements effecting the deep loosening... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4554977 | Combined harrow and harrow bar A cultivator of the type having a vertically movable harrow bar followed by a vertically movable harrow roller. A plurality of springs biases the roller down against the ground. The springs are operatively connected to the harrow bar in a manner to have v... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4508177 | Soil pitting and damming implement and process An implement and process for implanting successive reservoirs, each including a "pit" and an adjacent "dam" in the ground surface along row crops for the purpose of retaining water and avoiding water runoff. The implement includes several spider wheels ha... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4315547 | Agricultural attachment An attachment for agricultural machines includes a frame having a leading and trailing portion, a first soil-treating unit located at the leading portion of the frame and a second soil-treating unit located at the trailing portion of the frame. Between th... | 02/16/1982 |
| 4269535 | Earth working implement control system An operating and down-pressure hydraulic control system for vehicle-mounted implements such as earth compactors and the like. The assembly of hydraulic cylinders, valving and a hydraulic accumulator provided herein operates as a hydraulic system to raise,... | 05/26/1981 |
| 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 |
| 4263974 | Soil cultivating machines A soil cultivating machine has a row of cultivating members journalled in an elongated frame portion. The rear of the machine is supported by elongated rollers positioned side-by-side and pivotable arms interconnect the lateral roller ends to rear plates ... | 04/28/1981 |
| 4258635 | Soil cultivation implement A soil cultivation implement comprising a frame adapted to be coupled to a drive means, and said frame supporting, one behind the other in the direction of travel, first cutting means for cutting the ground substantially vertically, second cutting means f... | 03/31/1981 |
| 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 |
| 4231305 | Soil cultivating machine A cultivating machine includes a forward row of subsoil tools and a plurality of elongated cultivating rollers having support plates to which soil penetrating T-section bars or knife edged bars are attached. To the rear of the cultivating rollers, a trail... | 11/04/1980 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4150502 | Method and apparatus for breaking up lumps of stone from a subaqueous soil When breaking up lumps of stone from a subaqueous stony ground, the lumps are loosened by means of at least one chisel inserted into the ground and being moved along the ground surface. In order to break up lumps of stone by low power and to main a predet... | 04/24/1979 |
| 4103628 | Conditioner drill A conditioner drill is disclosed herein which comprises two rows of plow teeth mounted at the front of a rectangular frame. Mounted on the frame behind the plow teeth are a drag plate and a compressor roller. A seed drill is mounted upon the frame behind ... | 08/01/1978 |
| 4102406 | Ground conditioning device and method of conditioning soil Water-holding and retaining cavities are formed in furrows with the cavities being staggered between adjacent rows. An arm spring biased downwardly carries a hub having spikes in planes laterally spaced apart with the spikes around the hub being staggered... | 07/25/1978 |
