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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7070004 | Robotic sod stacker A numerically-controlled robotic manipulator arm mounted to a sod harvester comprises two segments pivotally coupled together. One segment is rotatably coupled to a fixed base on the harvester while the second segment carries a pick-up head which can turn with respe... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7021584 | Automatic control of sod roll flaps A sod roller for automatically controlling the angular position of the end or flap of a roll of sod about the roll. A device senses the end, or trailing edge, of a strip of sod as a roll is formed on a roll-up conveyor. The sod roller holds the roll in the roll-up c... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6948569 | Snow auger assembly A device for removing material from a surface includes a blade, an auger positioned in close proximity to a front side of the blade and operably mounted on an axle for rotary motion relative to the blade whereby material accumulating at the front side of the blade d... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6779610 | Defective sod rejector and deflector A sod harvester having a conveyor assembly to receive sod from a cutting head, a roll-up mechanism to form rolls from the cut sod, and a storage conveyor to receive a set of formed sod rolls, with a clamp to clamp the set of sod rolls and transfer it to a pallet. A ... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6659189 | Sod harvesting machine A sod harvesting machine comprising a wheeled frame with single or dual cutterheads at the forward end and a sod-receiving wind-up saddle at the rear end. An endless conveyor with a single flight spans the length of the machine and cut sod which is receiv... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6488100 | Fluff roll for aeration core processing machine A core destroying machine utilizes a single processing rotor cooperable with an arcuate screen member to disintegrate aeration cores therebetween. The arcuate screen member is configured to discharge thatch from the single processing rotor in a generally ... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6321849 | Apparatus for collecting/destroying aeration cores A core harvesting machine that can be mounted to the rear of a conventional aeration machine to receive green cores directly from the aeration machine without having the cores discharged to the ground. The core harvesting machine has a rotating brush core... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6273196 | Apparatus and method for the stacking of cut grass sods A sod cutting apparatus includes a cutting head positioned to cut grass sods from grass land and a sod receiving conveyor positioned adjacent the cutting head for receiving the cut grass sods from the cutting head. The sod receiving conveyor has a dischar... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6142239 | Core guide apparatus for aeration core harvesting machine A core harvesting machine that can be mounted to the rear of a conventional aeration machine to receive green cores directly from the aeration machine without having the cores discharged to the ground. The core harvesting machine has a rotating brush core... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6056064 | Method of harvesting sod A method of harvesting sod using a sod harvester involves the formation of a series of discrete slabs of sod that are positioned end-to-end, and conveyed up a conveyor that is driven at ground speed so that the slabs stay together. Netting is introduced c... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5906243 | Countermine breaching power blade A device is provided for clearing a swath within the earth. The device has a frame for mounting the device onto an industrial vehicle. A rotating track is disposed on the frame. At least one reinforcing panel is mounted adjacent an end of the track that p... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5857527 | Apparatus for the cutting of one or more grass sods and a method for the stacking thereof An apparatus for cutting grass sods out of grass land and for stacking or rolling up into a predetermined amount of stacks or rolls of one or more grass sods. The apparatus includes a frame provided with two or more wheels suspended thereon, a cutting hea... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5816336 | Apparatus and method for destroying wet/dry aeration cores An aeration machine is provided with a split tine assembly having a movable spoon portion that disengages from the tine to discharge a wet core therefrom. The movement of the spoon portion is controlled by a cam mechanism that controls the point of discha... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5794710 | Lightweight adjustable track "power dozer" This invention is directed to a lightweight adjustable track earth moving device. More particularly this invention is directed to an improved efficient light-weight adjustable track earth moving device which can be attached at the front end of an endless ... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5794709 | Countermine breaching power blade A device is provided for clearing a swath within the earth. The device has a frame for mounting the device onto an industrial vehicle. A rotating track is disposed on the frame. At least one reinforcing panel is mounted adjacent an end of the track that p... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5775436 | Sod harvester with pivotable roll-forming unit A sod harvester includes a cutter for forming a strip of cut sod, and an inclined conveyor for conveying the strip from the cutter to a roll-forming enclosure. The roll-forming enclosure comprises two belt conveyors at right angles to one another. The str... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5271470 | Plow apparatus and method using acoustics The plow apparatus has plow blades to break up the soil in the plowed field. The broken up soil is scooped up with scooper blades by the forward motion of the plow apparatus and then conveyed to rotating tillers. The tillers break up the soil into smaller... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5178221 | Core-gathering apparatus and a main conveyor belt drive roller structure for the apparatus An apparatus which gathers earthen cores dug out by a boring machine operates with a main conveyor belt and auxiliary conveyor belt which are partially forced in contact with each other so as to sandwich earthen cores inbetween and transfer the cords to a... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5002453 | Green cores collecting apparatus A green cores collecting apparatus attachable to the rear portion of a corer vehicle comprising a housing provided with a upper laterally extending rotary shaft, a lower laterally extending rotary shaft arranged in parallel with the upper rotary shaft and... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4944352 | Sod harvester for rolling sod with grass side out A sod harvester in which sod is cut, conveyed upwardly, and then travels downwardly over a floppy conveyor and falls into a roll forming enclosure formed by a bottom conveyor and a vertical conveyor. The floppy conveyor swings downwardly at the start of r... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4903778 | Method for rolling sod with grass side out A sod harvester in which sod is cut, conveyed upwardly, and then travels downwardly over a floppy conveyor and falls into a roll forming enclosure formed by a bottom conveyor and a vertical conveyor. The floppy conveyor swings downwardly at the start of r... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4899829 | Apparatus for making a substrate for forest cultivation Apparatus for making a substrate for forest cultivation, which apparatus is designed to be drawn as a trailer behind a tractor or some comparable vehicle and most suitably has one wheel on each side of the trailer, the tracks of the wheels being essential... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4856597 | Soil working machine A soil preparation machine is pulled by a tractor across a field in which rows of plants and tracks followed by the tractor are at permanent locations from season to season. Soil from between the remains of two rows of the previous season's plants is lift... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4832130 | Sod harvester with conveyor structure A sod harvester in which sod is cut, conveyed upwardly, and then travels downwardly over a floppy conveyor and falls into a roll forming enclosure formed by a bottom conveyor and a vertical conveyor. The floppy conveyor swings downwardly at the start of r... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4828040 | Side unloading automatic sod harvesting apparatus A mobile automatic sod harvesting apparatus of the type which severs a sod strip from the ground parallel to the direction of travel, cuts the strips into sod pads of predetermined length and conveys the sod pads rearwardly toward a sod stacking and unloa... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4827637 | Apparatus for clearing a surface of snow and dirt The apparatus for clearing a trafficked surface such as a road, express highway and airport runway of snow, slush, water, dirt and the like comprises a framework in which two rotatable drums are mounted and around which a conveyor belt for the material to... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4796711 | Apparatus 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 |
| 4727940 | Tank mounted mine-field clearing apparatus Mine clearing apparatus for attachment to a vehicle and comprising a frame mountable onto a vehicle for selectable positioning in a raised or lowered orientation; apparatus mounted onto the frame for raising and shunting aside mines including a plow secti... | 03/01/1988 |
| 4541491 | Plow A plow has coupling members at its forward side for connection to a multi-point hitch of a tractor. Furrow slicing members at the front form furrow slices which are elevated to furrow turning drums during operation. The furrow slices are turned about thei... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4398607 | Auger with adjustable wear plate The present invention comprises an adjustable wear plate which is attached adjacent the outer peripheral edge of an auger flighting. The plate includes an outer circumferential edge and an inner circumferential edge. A pair of slots extend inwardly from t... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4382472 | Plow A plow has coupling members at its forward side for connection to a multi-point hitch of a tractor. Furrow slicing members at the front form furrow slices which are elevated to furrow turning drums during operation. The furrow slices are turned about thei... | 05/10/1983 |
| 4382473 | Soil cultivating machine A soil cultivating machine such as a plow comprises a share followed by a soil guide which is in the form of a moldboard made up of power driven rotary guide elements. The elements are elongated and are all driven from a common shaft which can include a c... | 05/10/1983 |
| 4372396 | Method and system for continuous turn-over of soil The method and apparatus for continuous turn-over of soil in accordance with the invention are characterized in that the turn-over of soil takes place in a system including a rotor, the direction of rotation of which is opposite to the wheels of a vehicle... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4364436 | Ploughs A plow is structured to wholly or partly invert a furrow slice during operation. The furrow slice is cut loose by a leading V-shaped blade and is both compressed, and deflected laterally towards a side wall of the frame by a plurality of rotary lateral di... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4358905 | Power dozer This invention is directed to a unique method of moving earth and an earth moving device which can be attached at the front end of an endless track vehicle and used for moving earth into a ditch or excavation. The apparatus for moving earth comprises: (a)... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4350208 | Plough A plow has spaced apart furrow cutters and a furrow elevating structure that loosens and raises a continuous wide furrow strip to a furrow turning device during plow travel. The turning device can be an open ended drum that is rotated or stationary. Withi... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4345531 | Apparatus and method for cultivating land A method and apparatus of treating or cultivating soil consists of a mobile chassis which when propelled over the ground, has means for removing a predetermined amount of soil from the ground to create an open trench therein, tilling the removed soil and ... | 08/24/1982 |
| 4313502 | Rock extractor apparatus and method The present invention relates to a rock extractor apparatus and method of using the rock extractor for removing rocks embedded in the ground and/or for removing rocks partially embedded in the ground. The invention is particularly directed to removing roc... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4185698 | Adjustable auger dozer An earth working dozer or tractor having a transverse blade and an adjustable spiral auger supported forward of the blade which further crushes material lifted by the blade and moves the material transverse of the blade. The blade includes opposed support... | 01/29/1980 |
| 4073245 | Levee forming apparatus and method A towed levee forming apparatus and method of using for forming a dike or levee which is particularly suited for use with agriculture operations. The apparatus includes a plurality of laterally spaced digger means for forming corresponding ditches in the ... | 02/14/1978 |
