The ice cream cone was invented at the St. Louis Worlds Fair by Ernest Hamwi in 1904. His waffle booth was next to an ice cream vendor who ran short of dishes. Hamwi rolled a waffle to hold ice cream and the cone was born.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8104543 | Gauge wheel for use with a conventional row planter assembly A row planter assembly comprising: a frame; an opening disk rotatably mounted to the frame; and a gauge wheel rotatably mounted to the frame and disposed alongside, but spaced from, the opening dis... | 01/31/2012 |
| 7357193 | Air seeder disc scraper A scraper for a single-disc opener air seeder, comprising a mounting bracket, scraper attachment member, scraper plate, scraper edge containment member, scraper edge, bolt, spring, and nut, wherein the scraper attachment member is attached to the mounting bracket by... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7131216 | Distance measuring apparatus A distance measuring apparatus having a frame and a wheel rotatable relative to the frame around a first axis. The wheel has a peripheral surface that can be rolled against a surface upon which a distance measurement is to be taken. The distance measuring apparatus ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6722446 | Apparatus for mechanically controlling and eradicating cactus and other succulent plants from farm and ranch pastures and other lands A machine for controlling and eventually eradicating cactus and other succulent plants in farm and ranch pastures and other lands and land uses. This apparatus for mechanically controlling and eradicating cactus and other succulent plants uses a cutter deck on the m... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6698528 | Fertilizer coulter with trash-shedding, vibratory cleaning time A coulter assembly has a resilient spring tine that bears against the compression face of the angled coulter during field operations to remove dirt clumps that otherwise inhibit the furrow-forming action of the coulter. A special spring coil mounting of t... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6640732 | Disc opener assembly for a seed planter The present disc opener assembly for a seed planter is for a single disc opener arrangement and is embodied in several embodiments. FIGS. 1 and 1a illustrate two embodiments of the present disc opener assembly the specifics of each will be described below... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6386127 | Disc opener assembly for a seed planter The present disc opener assembly for a seed planter is for a single disc opener arrangement and is embodied in several embodiments. FIGS. 1 and 1a illustrate two embodiments of the present disc opener assembly the specifics of each will be described below... | 05/14/2002 |
| 5884711 | Gauge wheel scraper A scraper is disposed aft of and in closely spaced relation to a gauge wheel such as attached to an agricultural implement as in a planter row unit to remove soil from the wheel as the implement traverses a field. Maintaining the gauge wheel free of soil ... | 03/23/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5297497 | Scraper attachment for depth gauge wheel on seed planter A scraper is provided for use on depth gauge wheels provided on planters for row crops such as corn, soybeans, cotton, beans, peanuts and the like. The scraper includes a scraper blade which is mounted at one end portion of an elongated arm for contacting... | 03/29/1994 |
| 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 |
| 5209050 | Mower wheel assembly The present invention relates to the wheel assembly of mowers, particularly to mulching mowers. In the preferred embodiment, each wheel assembly includes a clearing disc sandwiched between a pair of support wheels. The support wheels support the weight of... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5060586 | Disc blade scraper device The invention comprises an adjustable scraper device for scraping the disc blades of a grain drill. The device has a fixed mounting on the mounting for supporting the disc blades and a slidable mounting slidable along the fixed mounting to a selected adju... | 10/29/1991 |
| 4858699 | Scraper device for an agricultural implement A scraper device for clearing earth and other materials accumulated on ground working elements, such as discs of a plough. The scraper device is suspended from the frame and is free to swing toward the ground working element. When a layer of earth or othe... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4775013 | Soil tilling machine A soil tilling machine comprising subsoil tilling members, known as subsoilers, which are drivable via a tractor's PTO around inclined upwardly directed axes. The subsoilers are each primarily constituted by a fowardly and downwardly inclined extending sh... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4533000 | Soil cultivating implements A packer roller for a soil cultivating implement constructed to perform a soil cultivating operation in addition to that performed by any other soil cultivating members of the implement, the roller comprising a plurality of groups or crowns of six tine-li... | 08/06/1985 |
| 4378052 | Articulated tractor attachment with roller A clevis-shaped bracket including an A-frame is adapted for attachment to the three point hitch of a tractor. A roller supporting frame is mounted within the bracket for articulated movement about the vertical axis of a pivot located within the hitch supp... | 03/29/1983 |
| 4371307 | Hydraulic bucket cleaner Disclosed is an apparatus for cleaning the interior of a digging bucket pivotally mounted on an articulated boom. The apparatus comprises a pair of struts pivotally mounted on a proximal segment of the articulated boom, a scraper mounted at the distal end... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4293041 | Power cultivator with debris excluding barrier and scraper A hand-held power driven cultivator incorporating a pair of ground working implements or tillers mounted on a pair of laterally spaced vertical shafts depending from a motor and drive train enclosing housing. The tillers are counter-rotated and include in... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4263974 | Soil cultivating machines A soil cultivating machine has a row of cultivating members journalled in an elongated frame portion. The rear of the machine is supported by elongated rollers positioned side-by-side and pivotable arms interconnect the lateral roller ends to rear plates ... | 04/28/1981 |
| 4200156 | Soil cultivating implements A cultivating implement has a row of rotors that are driven to rotate about upwardly extending axes and an elongated roller with pins that project obliquely rearwardly, considering the normal direction of rotation of the roller. The roller is mounted on a... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4161987 | Tractor grader A tractor grader in which the tractor is lengthened by forwardly spacing the front wheels and having a grader blade mounted between the front and rear wheels. The blade is mounted on a lower turntable and supported adjacent an upper turntable plate by rol... | 07/24/1979 |
| 3930542 | Rotary harrows A cultivator has an elongated frame and a plurality of rotary soil working members mounted side-by-side in a row that extends transverse to the direction of travel. The soil working members have depending tines that rotate about upwardly extending shafts ... | 01/06/1976 |