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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7325623 | Rolling spike harrow The spike wheels of the harrow are arranged in gangs to rotate about a common axis during ground engagement. Each wheel has a plurality of spikes that project outwardly from a cylindrical hub having a pair of opposite ends. Projections at one end of the hub are mati... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7240627 | Crop debris clearing device A residue coulter apparatus that cleanly severs and clears crop debris from a planting row, causing minimal disturbance to the soil. The residue coulter apparatus comprises a pair of flat discs each having a plurality of back swept shark type teeth extending about t... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7143838 | Wavy farming disc A wavy farming disc for working the soil in farming activities, particularly in no-till works for seeding, wherein the disc comprises a plate having a peripheral circular cutting edge and a central portion, and a plurality waves in the plate with the waves extending... | 12/05/2006 |
| 6913085 | Single 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 |
| 6854526 | Walk-behind agricultural working machine A walk-behind working machine has a machine body and a wheel mounted on the machine body for undergoing rotation to move the walk-behind working machine along a ground surface. A cultivator device is mounted on the machine body for cultivating the ground. A working ... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6467550 | 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 hy... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6330922 | Bedding plow featuring a center-cut disk assembly having resilient relief means A bedding plow suited for forestry planting operations includes a plow frame that is attached to a tractor or other tow vehicle. The frame holds a pair of trailing disk assemblies that are arranged along opposite longitudinal sides of the bed being plowed... | 12/18/2001 |
| 5957217 | Strip tillage apparatus The present invention provides a shankless strip tillage tool for no-till preparation of surface soil for the planting of seeds. The strip tillage apparatus has a frame for mounting the apparatus to a tool bar mounted on a draft vehicle. The frame has a p... | 09/28/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5704430 | Ground driven row cleaning apparatus An improved row cleaning apparatus to selectively clean away residue from conservation tilled fields without cultivation of the soil. When mounted on tractor-drawn implements, including planters, the cleaning action of the present invention improves depth... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5640914 | Debris manipulating and clearing assembly for clearing crop residue from soil An apparatus and process for manipulating and clearing crop residue or other debris from a zone of soil before tilling the zone of soil to form a seedbed. The apparatus may be attached to the tool bar of a farm implement and includes a pair of fingered wh... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5464066 | Method and a machine for repairing a ground area planted with grass for example a turfed racecourse or equestrian training ground A method and apparatus for filling holes which have been made in the ground, by causing a machine which includes a rotary rake at its extreme front end to pass over the ground. In the case in which the ground area planted with grass is a racecourse or equ... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5285854 | Stalk and root embedding apparatus A stalk, root, and agricultural debris embedding or burying device particularly suited for row crops such as cotton. The apparatus is pulled behind a tractor in close proximity to the row crops. A furrowing tool creates a temporary furrow in a lee, and be... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5154439 | Articulated utility vehicle An articulated utility vehicle having forward and rearward frame portions, each supported by a roller. A pair of fluid-powered rotary actuators are positioned between the front and rear frame portions of the vehicle. One actuator accomplishes side shiftin... | 10/13/1992 |
| 4785890 | Ground-driven rotary row cleaner The specification discloses an improved row cleaning apparatus to selectively clean away mulch from conservation tilled fields without cultivation of the soil. When mounted on a tractor-drawn planter unit, the cleaning action of the present invention impr... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4611668 | Assembly for forming water retaining pockets and levelling the ground surface An assembly for attachment to a tractor having rotatable elements which will form water collecting and retaining pockets in the ground surface being traversed thereby preventing or reducing water erosion, wind erosion and retaining water for penetration i... | 09/16/1986 |
| 4483401 | Trash clearing assembly for farm implements A double disc attachment for farm implements operating to present a debris-cleared area ahead of the furrow opener of the implement, has a peripherally notched disc with one of the discs spaced from and leading the other. Each disc is rotatably carried by... | 11/20/1984 |
| 4366760 | Seed drill A seed drill having single-disk furrow openers 6 set at an acute angle to the direction of travel. The total number of furrow-opener disks is divisible by four, and one half of the furrow-opener disks in each transverse row are set at the acute an... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4295532 | Planter with cooperating trash clearing discs A double disc attachment for planters, operating to present a debris-cleared area ahead of the furrow opener of the planter, has one of the discs peripherally fluted so that the discs cooperate in their debris-clearing function rather than work in opposit... | 10/20/1981 |
| 4280564 | Earthworking machine A cultivating machine includes a forward row of subsoil tools and a pair 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 trailing s... | 07/28/1981 |
| 4269536 | Shock isolation means for an earth compactor drum In a preferred embodiment of the invention a pair of shock plates are disposed in parallel, and substantially bi-planar, coupled together by elastomeric elements. One of the shock plates has a cut-out therein and the other has a limb extending into the cu... | 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 |
| 4249613 | Cultivating apparatuses and process The apparatuses comprise a horizontally extending rigid frame and a plurality of reel and shaft assemblies, those reel and shaft assemblies each comprising a pair of parallel axle shafts and a set of reels rotatably supported on each of said shafts; the p... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4155315 | Mobile spreader A mobile spreader of the type drawn by a tractor includes a hopper mounted on a roller. The roller is provided with a jarring strip which imparts a jolt to the hopper on each revolution of the roller. This jolting action prevents bridging of the material ... | 05/22/1979 |
| 4126186 | Soil cultivating implements A cultivating implement has rows of rotatable soil working cultivating members that are mounted on beams extending transverse to the direction of travel, one behind the other. The members rotate about upwardly extending axes and can be positioned along th... | 11/21/1978 |
| 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 |
| 4068724 | Agricultural implements with supporting roller A roller member structured to support a cultivator type implement and compress worked soil includes spaced apart generally vertical supports on a central shaft. The supports have holes that receive elongated rod elements and position same helically around... | 01/17/1978 |
| 4046200 | Lawn edger attachment A lawn edger attachment for moving vehicles consisting of a rolling coulter blade carried for rotation on a horizontal axis at the rearward end of a trailing arm pivoted at its forward end to the vehicle on a generally vertical axis. Mechanism is provided... | 09/06/1977 |
