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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5562167 | Implement caster wheel A mounting assembly of a gauge wheel for an implement, such as an agricultural crop harvesting header, the mounting assembly including a king pin member rotatably mounted in a king pin bushing housing and having a wheel spindle projecting substantially ho... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5477930 | Mechanism for adjusting the height of a frame of an agricultural implement relative to a groundsurface A mechanism for adjusting the height of a frame of an agricultural implement relative to a groundsurface is described. A parallelogram frame is provided which includes a frame mounted member and a wheel mounting member parallel to the frame mounted member... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5054560 | Transporting caster wheels Lift arms on a gang of implements support transport wheels which are movable from a raised field-working position to a lowered endwise towing position. Several of the wheels at the forward and aft ends of the towed gang of implements are fitted with caste... | 10/08/1991 |
| 4944355 | Caster wheel control apparatus In general, the remote control of a caster wheel assembly on a farm implement such as a crop sprayer of the type including a boom rotatable between a transport position and a field position is a complicated operation. In the transport position, the wheel ... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4938295 | Implement hitch assembly An implement hitch assembly serves to aggregate two machines. The machines are echeloned in the working position or in tandem in a transport position when moving from one field to another. The hitch includes a transverse draw bar, connected to a tractor. ... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4682462 | Swather with swinging hitch A pull type swather is provided with an adjustable hitch assembly for converting the swather as between a field position in which it is pulled widthwise by a tractor and a transport position in which it is pulled substantially lengthwise. The hitch assemb... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4658572 | Tractor mounted swather A multi-head swather for mounting on a tractor, and having a main frame including a front transverse member, a pair of side members and an intermediate transverse member each detachably connectable with the tractor. A front swather head is carried by the ... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4579361 | Implement cart A spray cart which straddles a trailing implement hitch and supports a tank on two castering wheels and on the tractor hitch. The caster wheels have adjustable tread, and the caster wheel support structure provides additional strength to the tank support ... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4573309 | Pull-type windrower A pull-type swather or windrower which can be used either singly or in a duplex or tandem arrangement can be adjusted from a working position to a transport position by pivoting the hitch through 90° and by unlocking the wheels so they turn through 90° ... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4555897 | Transportable wide swath trailing implement A transportable trailing wide-swath wheel-supported implement such as a rock windrower is conveniently able to convert from wide-swath working mode to a transversely narrower folded mode for convenient transport of the implement. The folding elements are ... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4416336 | Tool bar carrier with castering wheels A tool bar carrier for farming implements adapted to raise the tools carried by it and mounted on fully swiveling wheels. The bar is coupled flexibly and releasably to the pulling device, and the coupled wheels are capable of being locked in a straight fo... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4410194 | Caster wheel brake For an implement, a caster wheel assembly including a tubular member connected to reciprocate as the caster wheel swivels. An adjustable brake assembly resists movement of the tubular member to eliminate caster wheel wobble as the implement is transported... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4368806 | Castor wheel support assembly for an agricultural machine A support assembly is provided for a castor wheel of an agricultural machine. This support assembly includes an arm rigid with the chassis of the machine and a wheel support member which is supported by the arm for rotation about a vertical axis. In order... | 01/18/1983 |
| 4359105 | Soil working implement including hydraulic centering and locking means for caster wheel Hydraulic center and lock structure for the caster wheel of, for example, a tractor-drawn plow, operative on a centering element rigid with the standard of the caster wheel for forcibly centering the standard and ultimately locking the standard against tu... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4324435 | Lock assembly for earthworking apparatus A pivotal lock member (27) is secured to an earthworking apparatus (10) and a plurality of lock stations (28,29,30) are connected to a mounting assembly (21) which supports the earthworking apparatus (10) for rotation. The apparatus (10) can be rotated to... | 04/13/1982 |
| 4253528 | Pivoting dual land wheel for a plow A land wheel assembly including dual wheels pivotally mounted on a vertically positionable arm of an implement such as a plow. When the arm is lowered and the plow is in the transport position the wheels can rock in a castering fashion about a pivotal axi... | 03/03/1981 |
| 4236584 | Rear furrow wheel locking structure for disk tillers and the like A locking structure for a disk tiller or the like which simply and quickly secures the rear furrow wheel in either an operational or transport position. An elongated link is pivotally connected to the disk tiller frame. The link is received in a guide str... | 12/02/1980 |
| 4154451 | Control wheel A control wheel for an agricultural machine of the folding type in which the wings fold to trail behind a central section. The control wheel comprises a castor wheel coupled with tensioning devices which enable the wheel to track normally while folding or... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4147305 | Spray drawbar An extendible, collapsible spray drawbar device is disclosed comprising a triangular shaped frame structure adapted at the forward apex end for pivotal attachment to a prime mover and having wheels at the rear base end, transverse spray bar elements pivot... | 04/03/1979 |
| 4119156 | Implement frame with caster wheel and lock therefor A latch mechanism is provided for locking the front furrow wheel of a plow when the plow frame is in its lowered plowing position. The latch mechanism is inoperative when the plow frame is raised to its transport position, thus permitting the castered fur... | 10/10/1978 |
| 4083411 | Soil cultivating implements An implement has at least one group of soil working members arranged in a row that extends transverse to the direction of travel. The group of members is carried on an elongated frame portion that is connected to an overlying supporting structure by paral... | 04/11/1978 |
| 4026365 | Caster wheel supported agricultural implement with self-locking caster wheel A transversely and linearly elongated tractionally supported tool-carrying frame for agricultural implements having caster wheels which are shiftable individually and vertically relative to the frame to move the latter, and consequently the tools, between... | 05/31/1977 |
