Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7100625 | Screen room enclosure and method of attachment A fastening assembly and method to releasably secure a panel of a novel screen room enclosure to a structure. The fastening assembly includes a clip having a channel portion fastened to a flat portion, the channel portion having an opening adapted to receive an edge... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7073949 | Disk blade bearing hub assembly A maintenance free repetitive sealing system for a disk blade bearing hub utilizing an integrated system of components to seal and protect the primary bearing seal. The blade side of the spindle includes a hub overlap portion which deflects dirt, keeps large debris ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6886641 | Agricultural apparatus A furrow forming tool (20) for use in agricultural apparatus, the tool (20) including a furrow forming disc (27) and a ground engaging wheel (28) associated therewith, the disc (27) and its associated ground engaging wheel (28 | 05/03/2005 |
| 6325156 | Gauge wheel and coulter arrangement for agricultural implement A gauge wheel/coulter arrangement for an agricultural row unit. A pair of closely spaced, narrow, ground-engaging wheels in side-by-side relation are mounted to rotate about intersecting axes. Specifically, the wheels are angled inwardly toward each other... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6321667 | Adjustable gauge wheel for a planter An agricultural planting machine having a frame, a pair of opposite furrow forming disks rotatably mounted on the frame on intersecting axes and a pair of gauge wheel assemblies mounted on the frame respectively adjacent the opposite sides of the pair of ... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6119788 | Foldable agricultural roller The agricultural roller has three rolls mounted in a triangular overlapping operable configuration. The wing rolls are movable about a pair of spaced-apart transversal articulations between the wing roll frameworks and a central framework enclosing the ce... | 09/19/2000 |
| 5904107 | Apparatus for reducing the effects of wear within seed planter gauge wheel hub assemblies An improved planter gauge wheel arm hub assembly which reduces the effects of wear on gauge wheel hubs and shafts and the resulting looseness between the gauge wheels and furrow disks. A preferred embodiment of the invention utilizes a threaded attaching ... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5785129 | Row crop cultivator having a fixed depth of penetration A row crop cultivator has a plurality of domed discs suspended in pairs from a suspension system in which the discs are firmly restrained against lateral movement relative to the crop row being cultivated but are free to move vertically to adjust to uneve... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5685246 | Planting assembly for 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 includes an arcuate front edge that is juxtaposed imme... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5509363 | Seed drill guide 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 at the... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5394946 | Row cleaning attachment A row cleaning attachment for seeding equipment comprising a coulter mounted between and behind two press wheels having a uniform circumference. The press wheels are independently spring biased downwardly into contact with the ground for holding and pulli... | 03/07/1995 |
| 4796550 | Single angled blade coulter and fertilizer opener A conservation tillage attachment for a seed planting unit that functions to cut and clear away prior crop residue, fracture the soil ahead of the seed trench opener, and form a trench for the deposit of dry or liquid fertilizer offset from and parallel t... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4786113 | Farm equipment stabilizer disc A stabilizing disc for farm equipment used in muddy fields or loose soil which has a circular plate-like body with a centering ring of one diameter fastened to, and extending away from, one side of the disc and a second centering ring of different diamete... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4733730 | Planter gauge wheel The sidewall of the zero pressure tire of a combined gauge wheel and slicing disc assembly includes an annular sealing surface in axial engagement with the disc which is not pulled away from the disc by flexing of the tire tread during operation of the ag... | 03/29/1988 |
| 4534417 | Gauge wheel conversion arrangement A cutting blade, for vines and the like, adaptable for use on a standard gauge or press wheel typically mounted on a shovel cultivator used in agricultural purposes. The cutting blade is readily secured for use on the gauge wheel, upon removal of the regu... | 08/13/1985 |
| 4493274 | Furrow forming apparatus for a seed planter An apparatus to be towed that includes a frame supported, rotatably mounted, pair of furrow forming disks that are arranged to substantially contact each other at the approximate point of entry into the soil and diverge apart rearwardly and upwardly, and ... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4493375 | Method and apparatus for forming and reforming a furrow To form a furrow for row guidance systems, a shank is mounted on a frame forwardly of a wheel which includes a V-shaped tire. The shank opens the ground and the tire crushes clods and packs the sides of the furrow. Depth bands on each side of the tire sha... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4438819 | Rice levee shaper and packer An improved land vehicle for constructing rice levees comprises a unitary, ground contacting roller-wheel assembly surrounded by a frame member. The shape and size of the roller permits the construction of rice levees having the desired shape and dimensio... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4423788 | Agricultural furrow forming apparatus depth control An apparatus to be towed that includes a frame supported, rotatably mounted, pair of furrow forming disks that are arranged to substantially contact each other at the approximate point of entry into the soil and diverge apart rearwardly and upwardly, a pa... | 01/03/1984 |
| 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 |
| 4373456 | Agricultural furrow forming apparatus depth control An apparatus to be towed that includes frame supported, rotatably mounted furrow forming disks that are arranged to substantially contact each other at the approximate point of entry into the soil and diverge apart rearwardly and upwardly, a pair of rotat... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4321969 | Garden cultivator with reversing operation activated by vertical engine movement and with freely rotatable cultivator cylinder The specification discloses an improved garden tiller which, in addition to having power driven rotating tines on the front of the tiller transverse to the direction of travel, has a pair of free wheeling cultivator cylinders mounted to a stationary axle ... | 03/30/1982 |
| 4063596 | Soil cultivating machines A soil cultivating machine or rotary harrow has a row of tined soil working members that are driven about upwardly extending shafts. Further soil working or cultivating members between the driven members are mounted for free rotation about axes also locat... | 12/20/1977 |
