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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8146846 | Wear liner for a brush cutter A wear liner for use with a brush cutter, the cutter having a cylindrical, rotatable, cutting drum carrying cutting teeth and a cover at least partially covering the drum to limit dispersal of cut material. The liner comprises a sheet of material which can be shaped... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8083166 | Roof shingle stripper, grinder, and blower A roof shingle stripper, grinder, and blower includes: a motor to power the device; self-propelled wheels that move the device forward and urge the shingles into the device; a lifting blade that lifts up and dislodges the shingles from the roof; a shredder having tw... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7578462 | Mulcher with improved tooth design A mulcher apparatus includes a tractor and a mulcher unit provided to the tractor. The mulcher unit includes a tooth assembly with a holder and a cutter element with a cooperating notch portion and cross bar arrangement. The notch portion can be retrofit to existing... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7255296 | Granulator mill A granulator mill includes a mill housing with an openable part and a fixed part, a rotor which is rotary inside the mill housing and has a number of blades for co-operation with at least one fixed blade mounted in the mill housing and a discharge section whose inte... | 08/14/2007 |
| 6814322 | Device for removing ensilage from a compacted ensilage mass The invention is directed to an ensilage processing attachment for uniformly loosening and removing an uncompacted and free flowing ensilage product from a vertical face of a compacted ensilage mass, with minimal ensilage size reduction, when the attachment is mount... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6659378 | Field shredder for pruned branches A mobile field shredder adapted to move continuously through an orchard, pick up pruned branches from the ground, and shred the branches into sawdust and small shredded pieces. The front end of the shredder includes a pair of counter-rotating feeder rolle... | 12/09/2003 |
| 5975167 | Cutter for land clearing device A free-swinging cutter for use on a machine adapted to cut and clear brush and trees, including a generally stirrup-shaped member having two opposing sidewalls, a leading face with a cutting edge for cutting, and a rearward face opposite the leading face.... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5901911 | Apparatus and method for removing caked litter from a poultry facility A system for cleaning litter in a poultry house by removing caked litter while leaving uncaked litter. The system comprises a separator that connects and disconnects to the front bucket of a skid-steer loader while the operator remains seated. The separat... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5862656 | Forage harvester and method of operating the same In a forage harvester having a mechanically driven front attachment and hydrostatically driven compression rollers, the front attachment can be disconnected from its mechanical drive and instead connected with a hydrostatic drive of the compression roller... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5687919 | Apparatus for producing simulated snow effects An apparatus for producing simulated snow effects for theatrical environments. To create simulated snow in the quantities and qualities necessary for theatrical effects, ice is used as the source material. A plurality of storage channels are adapted for h... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5513485 | Full-swinging cutter for reduction head A free-swinging cutter element for a timber thinning machine includes a generally stirrup-shaped member having an outer wall and integral side walls. Each half of the member is formed as the frustrum of a triangle so that bevels on the upper and lower sur... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5495987 | Device for slicing ensilage from a compacted ensilage mass The present invention provides an ensilage slicing attachment for slicing compacted ensilage. The device is particularly adapted for attachment to a skid steer loader. It is especially useful in an open pit, trench, or bunker silos in which compacted ensi... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5330114 | Shredder attachment for combine corn head An attachment for a combine and more specifically to a shredder attachment for a combine corn head to shred or chop corn stalks as they pass downwardly through the feed rolls on a combine corn head with the shredded materials being discharged onto the gro... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5143305 | Soil treatment apparatus and method A method and apparatus for removing from soil particles within a predetermined size range, comprises a movable frame, and a digger attached thereto to excavate soil as the frame is moved. A first separater to which the excavated soil passes allows materia... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5033684 | Silage cutting machine with U-shaped holding frame Silage cutter has a U-shaped frame which is movable vertically on a mounting rack. The frame has a pair of lateral members and a front member connected thereto by a pair of corner coupling elements. Each member has a front and a rear cutting blade slidabl... | 07/23/1991 |
| 4961542 | Material reducer A material reducing apparatus includes a hopper having a pair of opposed sides, a front end and a back end. The back end has a top and bottom and a shearing edge at the bottom. A chain with bits forms the floor of the hopper. The chain is on a boom. Drive... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4938425 | Hinged feed roll housing A forage harvester includes front and rear sets of upper and lower feed rolls that cooperate to convey a mat of crop material across a shear bar with which a cutterhead cooperates to cut the crop into short lengths. The front set of feed rolls and the upp... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4934612 | Automatic forage harvester shearbar adjusting An automatic forage harvester shearbar-cutterhead clearance adjusting system includes motors connected to conventional left and right shearbar adjusting mechanisms. A knock sensor senses contact between the shearbar and the rotating knives of the cutterhe... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4923128 | Bale shredding and dispensing device for use with a tractor A shredder and dispensing device for baled crop materials comprises a frame having coupling arrangements for mounting upon the front end loader linkage of a tractor. The frame carries a horizontal conveyor construction which has an inclined ramp at a forw... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4884757 | Feeder for a field crop chopper A feeder for a field crop chopper is provided which has a stationary mating knife, at least one chopping knife arranged at a cutting angle to the mating knife so as to provide a drawing cut commencing at a given part of the mating knife, and a draw-in dev... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4860808 | Process and device for harvesting copses grown in lines A machine for harvesting and cutting into sections ligneous stems which grow upwardly from cultivated copses includes a frame which mounts an inverted trough for bending the upper portions of the stems to almost an almost horizontal orientation as the fra... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4830288 | Forage harvester A forage harvester (10) with a pick-up device (12) for the material to be chopped, and, connected to a chopping and/or conveying equipment, a delivery tube (16) with a delivery opening (18), possesses a re-comminuting device (32), comprising more than one... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4767067 | Method of and agricultural machine for producing power fodder An agricultural machine for producing a storable power fodder of grain and stalk product comprises a device for cutting a grain containing stalk product, a device for threshing the cut product, a device for separating during the threshing a part composed ... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4760967 | Mulcher-chopper A mulcher-chopper of the type in which a horizontally disposed blade is mounted on a driven vertical shaft within a comminuting chamber. The blade is provided with deep and sharp serrations, thereby increasing the effective blade length and enhancing effi... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4747260 | Field chopper/blower with ground-following intake A field chopper has a frame adapted to travel along the ground in a normal travel direction, a main housing fixed on the frame and defining a chopping chamber extending along an axis transverse to the direction and having relative to the direction a front... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4703614 | Cyclone forage harvester A forwardly opening cylindrical housing is mounted on the forward end of a wheeled frame coupled to the front of self-propelled prime mover and the rear of the housing includes a forwardly facing axial inlet and radial discharge rotor assembly mounted the... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4617786 | Forage harvester having supplemental crop disintegrating means A high speed rotor in the chute of a forage harvester is used to crack kernels in chopped forage impelled to the rotor. The rotor itself has four or more rows of elongated, spaced-apart plates provided with blunt cracking edges, and a deflector, disposed ... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4597703 | Bale handling and hay distributing apparatus Bale handling and hay distributing apparatus comprises a round-bale holder equipped with a device for rotating the bale around its central axis and a hay shredding unit. The bale holder is supported by a lift mechanism having a pair of vertically movable,... | 07/01/1986 |
| 4411573 | Bale handling apparatus Bale handling apparatus including a frame portion, a bale moving portion, a bale engaging portion and a control portion; the frame portion including a base section, the base section including a pair of substantially parallel spaced side members; the bale ... | 10/25/1983 |
| 4355670 | Forestry site preparation system A forestry site preparation system is provided for removing woody material, including trees, stumps and slash from forest terrain. The system includes clearing means having a means attached thereto for fragmenting the woody material and directing the part... | 10/26/1982 |
| 4236554 | Land clearing machine A rotating cutterhead projects forward from a tractor or other suitable vehicle and fells trees as the tractor is moved over land to be cleared. The tree-felling cutterhead rotates in a direction such that its leading face moves upward and then rearward t... | 12/02/1980 |
| 4232719 | Brush harvester Apparatus for attachment to and propulsion by a tractor or cross country vehicle for the purpose of cutting, chopping and removing vegetation, particularly dense vegetation and small trees. The apparatus includes a pair of forward horizontal rotary cutter... | 11/11/1980 |
| 4193457 | Cutover land restorer Axles projecting oppositely from opposite ends of a ribbed limb-breaking roller are carried by bearings mounted on plates projecting downward from the opposite ends of a transverse beam extending across the front of a crawler tractor. Arms projecting rear... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4081200 | Method and apparatus to remove structural concrete By the action of water jetted against the concrete in systematically controlled manner under ultra-high pressures (i.e. above 25,000 psi) areas of structural concrete are removed to required depths through the one or more levels of aggregate involved effi... | 03/28/1978 |
