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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7628218 | Apparatus for attaching a ground-engaging tool to an implement frame An apparatus for attaching a ground-engaging tool to an implement frame of an implement adapted to move along the ground in an operating travel direction includes a bore bracket defining a pair of laterally spaced parallel cylindrical bores, and a pair of cylindrica... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7240755 | Engine-supporting structure for a motorcycle, and methods of using same An engine-supporting structure for a motorcycle, in which a collar can be removed to perform engine maintenance, and can be suitably re-mounted after the completion of maintenance. The engine-supporting structure supports a rear upper mounting portion of an engine, ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7131501 | Disk harrow with U-shaped cushions of tapered round section U-shaped cushions, also known as shanks or spring members, resiliently support a gang of disks on the frame of a disk harrow. The agricultural disk cushion is manufactured from a round section of raw material which is lighter and more resistant to torsion related fa... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7044070 | Seed drill with walking beam assembly A no-till drill with a novel walking beam assembly that allows the drill to be pulled over severe terrain conditions that include large rocks, fallen limbs and other large obstructions. The inventive walking beam assembly includes two independent pivot points that a... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6516895 | Tool shank mounting assembly A mounting assembly for a shank including a shank holder having a passage for receiving the shank, the passage having at one end opposite tapering surfaces which define with the leading edge of the shank opposite tapering spaces for receiving wedge member... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6505688 | Soil conditioning implement A seed bed packer including a frame, a plurality of wheels connected to the frame, and a soil packing element. The packer also includes a spring shank for transferring weight from the frame to the soil packing element. The spring shank includes a first le... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6240860 | Mounting system for securing planting units in planting machines A mounting system for securing planting units in planting machines, each unit including at least a portion removably secured to a carrier beam, the system allowing to quickly and simply change the distance between working units in order to adapt the machi... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6158524 | Cultivator component clamping assembly A cultivator component clamping assembly for attaching a component to an implement crossbar having a plurality of faces includes a pair of generally C-shaped members each having a throat opposing a first face of the implement bar. Each C-shaped member als... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6098722 | Versatile implement system A versatile implement system utilizing a single implement structure that is capable of being utilized as a grain planter, row crop planter, tiller or anhydrous applicator. The inventive device includes a conventional implement frame, a bracket, a pair of ... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6095255 | Cultivator component part clamping assembly A cultivator component part clamping assembly for removably attaching a component part to an implement crossbar having a plurality of faces. The clamping assembly includes a generally C-shaped brace having a throat, a first leg and a second leg attached t... | 08/01/2000 |
| 5787993 | Farm implement, with multi-position settings Many openers are mounted on the lateral tool-bar of a farm implement. For crop and fertilizer change, different spacings along the tool-bar are required for the openers. Multi-position tool-mounting structures are provided, for each opener as required. Ea... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5743341 | Toolbar mounting structure providing tool adjustment in the hitch area Integral hitch and standard mounting structure for a toolbar includes a first embodiment having a hitch tube connected to a three point hitch and to a rear toolbar. Brackets located a substantial distance outwardly of the hitch connect the hitch tube to t... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5531171 | Liquid product device A plurality of digging devices are mounted side by side on the same beam which is coupled to a clamping system of a vehicle or of a tank containing the liquid to be buried. Each device comprises, mounted on the same chassis, at least a disk for forming an... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5531276 | Flip-up C-shank standard for a cultivator A simple, light-weight C-shank standard is mounted on a bracket which is corner clamped to a rig cross tube on a row crop cultivator. A pin inserted through apertures in the bracket maintains the shank in a preselected field-working attitude. The pin can ... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5485886 | Adjustable agricultural tool holder A holder for an agricultural tool. The holder has a shaft with first structure at a first location for mounting at least one agricultural tool to the shaft. The shaft has a portion that is movable guidingly in first and second opposite directions relative... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5351635 | Agricultural seeder A seeding system includes a frame mounted on ground wheels for moving across the ground together with a plurality of individually mounted seeding elements carried on parallelogram linkages from the frame. A seeding element includes a walking beam arrangem... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5251704 | Detachable harrow sprayer There is disclosed a new and improved rearwardly folding combination harrow sprayer drawbar. A plurality of quick detach harrow arms are adapted to be quickly connected and disconnected to a plurality of harrow arm receivers. The implement can be used for... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5232056 | Agricultural drawbar and self-locking bushing therefor A drawbar assembly includes a self-locking bushing which is supported from the drawbar mounting bracket by a conventional nut and bolt fastener. Each end of the bushing includes radial line projections which bite into the mounting bracket and into a washe... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5195597 | Shear pin assembly A soil penetrating tool assembly for mounting to a tool bar of a soil penetrating implement including a shank member which has an elongate body, a soil penetrating tool which is located on the first end of the body and a facing plate located on a second e... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5133415 | Cultivator shank assembly A shank assembly for mounting on a tool bar of a farm implement includes a first upper mount section firmly clamped to a tool bar at one end thereof and fixedly attached to a second lower section at the other end thereof. A ground working tool is fixedly ... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5054561 | Bracket for attachment of a ground working tool on a tool bar A ground working implement includes a tool bar and a tool element which can be pulled across the ground by its attachment to the tool bar by a bracket and link system. The link comprises a U-shaped arm with a transverse portion parallel to an axis of rota... | 10/08/1991 |
| 5040616 | Shank attachment A shank attachment device for holding either a deep-tilling ripper shank or a leveling finishing tool includes two vertical plates fixedly attached to a tool bar and adapted to sandwich a ground-working tool therebetween. A ripper shank holding assembly i... | 08/20/1991 |
| 4991661 | Lock-up mount apparatus for an earth working tillage tool A lock-up mount apparatus for an earth working tillage tool includes a bracket which is provided for attachment to a toolbar and the bracket has a first, second, third and fourth pin opening therein. A tillage tool, such as a cultivating tine, has an atta... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4977841 | Torsional joint attachment for a seed planter A seed drill machine of the type having a plurality of disk assemblies, and a torsion spring joint for connection of the disk assemblies to the frame of the machine. The machine is conventionally mounted on a pair of wheels and the disk assemblies can be ... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4964351 | Dry soil spreader for disk furrow opener In an agricultural drill having a frame plurality of pairs of furrow opening disk equipped supporting arms and pressure wheels are connected in trailing relation with the frame. A dry soil parting share is vertically adjustably connected with the respecti... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4842077 | Disk harrow standard for support beams of different cross sections A disk bearing standard which may be utilized with support tubes of different cross sections by simply changing a low cost U-bolt which clamps the standard to the tube. The standard includes front and lower locating surfaces formed at an angle of ninety d... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4786204 | Clamping apparatus with bi-directional clamping device A clamping device for exerting clamping forces in two directions to a shank between a pair of spaced clamping members having a transverse stop. The device includes an elongated bolt like body having a pair of axially spaced sections, a head at one end and... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4738316 | Adjustable shank mounting for an earthworking tool A shank mounting arrangement for a disk hiller or similar implement which provides simple and precise angular adjustment of the shank independently of vertical adjustment. An upright slotted tube is fixed to a support beam and an upright apertured shank i... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4698925 | Soil reclaiming implement Apparatus for processing of soil by vibratory sifting to remove rocks and other objects embedded in the soil provides a scoop for use with a backhoe or crawler tractor having a positionable boom. The scoop includes an elongated main frame to which are sec... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4656957 | Liquid fertilizer applicator A liquid fertilizer applicator is provided, designed to be pulled by a motive power source, for use in a variety of soil and tillage conditions. It includes a disc-shaped coulter and an associated applicator knife mounted in trailing relation to the coult... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4574891 | Agricultural tool clamp A clamp arrangement is provided for mounting an agricultural tool to a tool bar or cross bar. The clamp includes an upper clamp plate and a lower plate which are bolted to the bar and slotted to receive a vertical support bar. The vertical support bar is ... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4465396 | Shank clamp An improved clamp arrangement for attaching a shank, particularly an S-tine shank, to a rectangular beam of an implement. A bracket is positioned against two adjacent faces of the beam and includes a formed end with a continuous transition zone which part... | 08/14/1984 |
| 4461358 | Leaf spring shank assembly A one-piece shank assembly is disclosed which is comprised of a flat leaf spring having an arcuate intermediate portion, a lower end portion adapted to mount a ground working tool, and an upper end portion which is reversed upon itself to thereby form a p... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4452320 | Adjustable Danish tine An adjustable Danish tine for a farm implement includes a notched vertical run for attachment to a tool bar by a U clamp.... | 06/05/1984 |
| 4368783 | Universal auxiliary implement mount A universal auxiliary implement mount for agricultural implements utilizes spaced, parallel, triangular plate members for attachment and selective positioning on respective tool bars of different main implements. A draw tongue is pivotally attached to one... | 01/18/1983 |
| 4321970 | Ripper apparatus Ripper apparatus of the type wherein a ripper blade is releasably fixed in place through a shank pocket slot of a pivotal tool bar, wherein a replaceable wear plate forms the front side of the shank pocket to reduce wear of the shank pocket. The tool bar ... | 03/30/1982 |
| 4318524 | Bent bolt clamp A bent bolt clamping arrangement for clamping a mechanism to a beam of rectangular cross-section. Three beam engaging elements lying substantially in a plane are arranged to form a U-shaped configuration to snugly fit three faces of the beam. One of the e... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4295532 | Planter with cooperating trash clearing discs A double disc attachment for planters, operating to present a debris-cleared area ahead of the furrow opener of the planter, has one of the discs peripherally fluted so that the discs cooperate in their debris-clearing function rather than work in opposit... | 10/20/1981 |
| 4282936 | Quick acting coupler for cultivator attachment A quick acting coupler for a cultivator attachment, such as a cultivator fender, shield, or the like, in which the attachment is carried by a mounting frame with the latter being securable to the tool or cultivator bar of a cultivator implement for coupli... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4261423 | Field cultivator shank An earth working implement such as a field cultivator shank for use on a tool bar of a field cultivator includes a mounting bracket having an upper end and a lower end. The mounting bracket is secured at the lower end of the mounting bracket to the tool b... | 04/14/1981 |
