Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6199639 | Hilling spade A hilling spade according to the present invention has a pair of moldboards or wings defining a plowing angle having a pointed forward end. Each wing has a central planar surface, a cutting edge, and a lower curved surface between the cutting edge and the... | 03/13/2001 |
| 5199503 | Plow The plow comprises a carrier frame (1) supporting a horizontally rotatable frame (3). The working members in the form of left- and right-handed plow bodies are fixed on the rotatable frame (3). The rotatable frame (3) is mounted in such a manner as to be ... | 04/06/1993 |
| 4984638 | Plow with symmetrical bodies having concave vertical and horizontal cross-sections A plow having symmetrical mold-boards and bodies, the plow comprising a hitch 1 connected in particular by means of a pivot 3 and to a main frame 4 which is provided with a pivot 18 receiving a hydraulic actuator 17 whose action causes a beam 8 to pivot a... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4671363 | Plow moldboard having reversible and interchangeable parts A plow moldboard made of a plurality of sections which are reversible and interchangeable so that each moldboard section can alternatively serve as the leading edge of the moldboard in two different positions. Each section has substantially parallel top a... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4328870 | Plough for working of soil This invention provides a new method of ploughing in which the cut ridge is inverted in its own furrow. The plough for doing this consists of at least two upright main bodies (4) parallelly spaced and elongated in the ploughing direction. At the front por... | 05/11/1982 |
| 4036307 | Plough share with reinforcement plate covering tongue holes therein A plough share made of metal having at least two spaced tongues pressed out of the metal and projecting rearwardly at an angle, the two tongues being adapted to engage in complementary holes formed in the frog of a plough. The plough share also has holes ... | 07/19/1977 |
