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 |
| 7647982 | Scraper with rotating blade for engaging a rotating disk A scraper for mounting to a tool bar of a farm implement having at least one rotating disk for tilling soil, including a support mounted to the tool bar and a shaft pivotally attached to and extending from the support where the shaft has a central axis. A scraper bl... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7290620 | Disk blade scrapers for tillage apparatus A disk blade scraper is used with a tillage implement having rotating disk blades separated by hub spools. In one form, the disk blade scraper has a wide tapered scraper blade positioned very close to the transition of the hub spool and the disk blade. In another fo... | 11/06/2007 |
| 6912963 | Apparatus for preparing soil for the placement of seed and additive An apparatus for preparing soil for the placement therein of at least one of seed and fertilizer. A frame is provided with there being first structure on the frame for penetrating the soil to create an opening for at least one of seed and fertilizer as the frame is ... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6874584 | Disc furrow opener scraper positioning system A furrow opener apparatus comprises a disc rotatably attached to the apparatus such that when the disc engages the ground, a furrow is formed adjacent to a trailing face of the disc. A scraper has a scraper blade oriented substantially parallel to the trailing face ... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6644224 | Apparatus for preparing soil for the placement of seed and additive An apparatus for preparing soil for the placement therein of at least one of seed and fertilizer. A frame is provided with there being first structure on the frame for penetrating the soil to create an opening for at least one of seed and fertilizer as th... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6347594 | Narrow profile opener capable of high speed operation An opener assembly includes a single opener disk rotatably supported from a drawbar and angled approximately five degrees from the forward direction to define a shadow area behind the trailing surface of the disk. A material placement boot and delivery tu... | 02/19/2002 |
| 5507351 | Cleaner for tined wheels This invention provides an improved apparatus for maintaining tooth rotating wheels, which are used to penetrate the soil either as a cultivating apparatus, a row cleaning apparatus, or as closing apparatus for row planters free of mulch, trash, dirt and/... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5443125 | Scraper for planting mechanism gauge wheel A grain drill row unit includes a furrow opening device that opens a furrow into which seeds are deposited as the machine advances, and a combination gauge and press wheel rides along the ground behind the furrow opening device to firm the soil around the... | 08/22/1995 |
| 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 |
| 5269380 | Seed planter depth gauge wheel with mud scraper A mud scraper assembly includes a scraper blade mounted on the lower end of a scraper arm which in turn has a clamp at its upper end mounted on the sleeve of a depth gauge wheel support arm. No alteration of existing planter structure is required for adap... | 12/14/1993 |
| 4669550 | Rotary scraper for planter disks A rotary scraper for the exterior of planter disks which is mounted on a bracket easily attachable to existing grain planters. The rotary scrapers are mounted on the front edge of double disk planter disks vertically centered with the planter disks and wi... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4603746 | Disk blade scraper The present invention provides a scraper mechanism for a disk blade including a wear ring attached to the rim of a rotary scraper and releasably biased toward and held in planar contact with one side of a disk blade. The wear ring is molded from a low fri... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4206817 | Scraper blade mechanism for double disc Seed sowing equipment is disclosed including a pair of cooperating disc blades mounted for rotation on an axle. A scraper is provided for cooperation with each of such blades for preventing the accumulation of soil on the inward side of such disc blades. ... | 06/10/1980 |
| 4009668 | Planter apparatus and method for planting A method and apparatus for planting seeds. A V-shaped seed furrow having a predetermined depth is continuously formed while the soil adjacent each side of the furrow is uniformly firmed or compacted and a smooth surface formed. Seeds are continuously disp... | 03/01/1977 |
| 3997684 | Method for making expanded potato based snack products A potato based food snack is prepared by mixing cooked potato solids with water and ungelatinized starch to form a dough having between about 40 percent and about 50 percent solids by weight, forming the dough into pieces, and frying the pieces in hot coo... | 12/14/1976 |
