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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7077743 | Method of and device for determining crop parameters A method of determining crop parameters in an agricultural harvester has the steps of determining at least one crop parameter during a working process with a compacting device which is fillable with a crop probe, and using for determining the at least one crop param... | 07/18/2006 |
| 6108947 | Bucket dredger Bucket dredger, comprising: a swivelling ladder connected to a vessel, a driven upper wheel at the top end and a polygonal lower wheel (7) at the lower end of the ladder, one or more endless chains (6) which are guided along both wheels, and buckets (9) c... | 08/29/2000 |
| 5984081 | Continuous unloader A continuous unloader includes upper sprockets, lower sprockets located below the upper sprockets, and front sprockets located in front of the lower sprockets. An endless bucket conveyer is operatively taken on the upper, lower and front sprockets. A supp... | 11/16/1999 |
| 4856640 | Stopper elevator conveyor A device for transferring small discrete objects such as pharmaceutical stoppers andn caps including a frame movably positionable at a predetermined location for delivery of the objects and an angularly displaced conveyor on the frame having a discharge c... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4805756 | Loading device, in particular bucket-wheel excavator The bucket-wheel excavator comprises a swivellable bucket-wheel boom 6 and a swivellable bridge 11. At a transfer location, the bridge 11 is rotatably supported on a truncated conical superstructure 10 and the turntable b 16 l of the bridge comprises raki... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4693661 | Connecting elevator A connecting elevator for serving, handling or working units which operate on mine benches of different level, comprises a supporting structure carrying a hoisting equipment and being supported, at least at its upper end for travelling on a bench, with th... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4681205 | Displaceable inclined hoist A displaceable inclined hoist has conveyor cars which can be moved up and down along two tracks by cable lines driven by windlasses, where the tracks together with the windlasses are located on a support construction, which is mounted in the region of its... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4279562 | Bucket conveyor A bucket conveyor is provided with a frame having upwardly inclined spaced parallel guide rails which support the bucket for up and down movement along the inclined guide rails, a chain-and-sprocket bucket support and drive mechanism is disposed along eac... | 07/21/1981 |
| 4108496 | Paddle wheel pick-up The invention refers to a paddle wheel type pick-up device for loading stored piled bulk materials or the recovery of mined minerals. The pick-up arrangement is supported on the frame of a carriage parallel with the breakdown front of the stored pile, or ... | 08/22/1978 |
