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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7155884 | Stretch wrap threading device A stretching device for a stretch wrap machine includes a support structure and a film support for rotatably holding a roll of stretchable film. First and second rollers are rotatably mounted to the support structure. The stretching device includes a take-off device... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7044704 | Portable load lifting bed The invention relates to a portable load lifting bed including a base frame and a bed frame moveably mounted for movement between an upper position and a lower position. A plurality of guides connect the bed to the base frame and at least one actuator provides force... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6354066 | Apparatus for stick-spearing stalk-cut tobacco stalks An apparatus for stick-spearing stalk-cut tobacco stalks which includes an endless belt having a plurality of stick-supporting claws and a plurality of stalk-transferring claws provided along its circumferential surface. The apparatus also includes an air... | 03/12/2002 |
| 5400577 | Tobacco harvester A tobacco harvester includes a plurality of linearly spaced tobacco plant engaging flights attached to an endless chain at equal linear distances with the sensing of a tobacco plant at a first position resulting in a cycle of operation occurring to advanc... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5362190 | Method for gathering cut tobacco stalks An apparatus is provided for increasing the efficiency of gathering cut tobacco stalks, particularly burley tobacco stalks. The apparatus includes a metal tobacco stick being of a length sufficient so that the stick can be pushed into the ground with a po... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5306114 | Elevating scaffold trailer An elevating scaffold trailer is provided for transporting burley tobacco stalks impaled on tobacco rods from the field into a curing cell and subsequently out of the curing cell. The trailer comprises an elevating device for raising tobacco rod carrying ... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5148661 | Tobacco harvester and use thereof Aligning tobacco plants end to end in rows in a field with leaf ends trailing butt ends as the butt ends are picked up onto an elevating conveyor belt by turning it at the same speed as the ground or surface speed of a wheel of a trailer pulled by a tract... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5081827 | Tobacco spearing system An oval track guides plates with tobacco stickholders thereon around the track so that workers at stations around the track can impale tobacco plants on the tobacco sticks in the stickholders as they pass by or as they are stopped momentarily in front of ... | 01/21/1992 |
| 4578935 | Tobacco harvester and method An apparatus and a method for harvesting tobacco are disclosed. Tobacco stalks are cut on the afternoon of one day and are left to lie transversely of the tobacco field. The next day, a harvesting apparatus is moved through the field and includes an eleva... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4510740 | Tobacco harvester A tobacco harvester includes a self-propelled vehicle frame having driven front wheels and steerable rear wheels. A pair of harvester units are positioned side-by-side on the frame and each unit includes mechanisms for harvesting a row of tobacco plants. ... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4508482 | Method and apparatus for harvesting tobacco A support beam is formed of two wooden members held in spaced relation to each other by spaced blocks to provide openings to receive tobacco sticks with tobacco stalks thereon. Each end of the support beam has a longitudinal slot extending therethrough to... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4462734 | Bulk tobacco racking device The present invention relates to a bulk tobacco racking device that is designed to assist in loading and closing a sectional bulk tobacco rack of the type including a generaly U-shaped tine section, an elongated bar section, and a pair of latches that ext... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4379669 | Tobacco handling apparatus Tobacco handling apparatus that receives tobacco from a source, such as a trailer, and elevates it by a conveyor to a discharge end from which it is discharged in a flow path having a substantial maximum horizontal extent disposed above a container that h... | 04/12/1983 |
| 4318560 | Tobacco supporting tine structure with improved locking means A tobacco supporting tine structure comprising an elongated rod bent to define a relatively long longitudinally extending leg portion having a free end thereof shaped to facilitate a piercing movement thereof through a bulk mass of tobacco leaves, a bight... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4303364 | Method and apparatus for transferring harvested bulk foliage from one container to another A method and apparatus for transferring a pile of foliage from one surface to a second surface comprising an unloading mechanism which will contain and suspend the pile of foliage to permit removal of the first surface and a conveyor system positioned adj... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4216642 | Tobacco harvesting method and apparatus Tobacco plants are harvested by having an operator ride a harvesting vehicle along a plant row so that as plants are successively cut from the ground by a cutter on the vehicle, the operator may grasp the severed plant and impale the same onto an upright ... | 08/12/1980 |
| 4184706 | Bulk tobacco container and air diffuser therefor The present invention relates to an improved bulk tobacco container of the type used to contain and support flue cured tobacco material for curing and drying, with the bulk tobacco container being of the box type and provided with an air diffuser or air c... | 01/22/1980 |
| 4178745 | Tobacco handling apparatus Tobacco handling apparatus that receives tobacco from a source, such as a trailer, and elevates it by a conveyor to a discharge end from which it is discharged in a flow path having a substantial maximum horizontal extent disposed above a container that h... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4156974 | Combination plant seedling-bulk tobacco support structure The present invention relates to a material handling device that is adapted to have utility in both a greenhouse operation and a bulk tobacco curing and drying structure. More particularly, in use with a greenhouse, the material handling device of the pre... | 06/05/1979 |
| 4136465 | Tobacco bulk curing container sections and composite barn construction formed thereby A tobacco bulk curing barn construction including a furnace section and a plurality of portable barn sections each having imperforate side walls and top wall that form substantially complete exterior walls and roof of an integral transverse section of a c... | 01/30/1979 |
| 4091601 | Work table A work table designed to be used to facilitate the removal of objects, preferably tobacco stalks, supported on sticks or other elongated elements by single or by several workers.... | 05/30/1978 |
| 4067454 | Support rail for tobacco sticks A support rail has openings extending therethrough throughout its length to receive tobacco sticks with tobacco stalks thereon with adjacent openings having the tobacco sticks supported from opposite sides to balance the support rail. The support rail is ... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4045066 | Bulk tobacco container The present invention relates to an improved random leaf bulk tobacco container for supporting a mass of tobacco leaves therein during a curing and drying process. When oriented in an upright curing and drying position, the bulk tobacco container of the p... | 08/30/1977 |
| 4036454 | Bulk tobacco container A bulk container for tobacco leaves which includes a tine frame member adapted to fit over the open end of a leaf container and having means to lock the individual tines after insertion into the tobacco leaves.... | 07/19/1977 |
| 4032023 | Apparatus for loading tobacco in barns Apparatus for loading tobacco into containers and for loading containers of tobacco into barns having a guide for facilitating evenly distributed loading of tobacco in containers, and structure for rotating the container from a first loading position to a... | 06/28/1977 |
| 4019767 | Quickly attachable and detachable tine frame for a tobacco box rack A quickly attachable and detachable tine frame is disclosed for attachment to a tobacco box rack for use in the processing and curing of tobacco leaves. The tine frame is attachable over the open top of the box rack after the box has been filled with toba... | 04/26/1977 |
| 4016985 | Combination bulk tobacco rack loader and unloader and method of unloading a bulk tobacco rack A combination bulk tobacco rack loader and unloader, and method of unloading a bulk tobacco rack is disclosed. The combination bulk tobacco rack loader and unloader comprises a generally open frame structure adapted in the unloading mode to receive filled... | 04/12/1977 |
| 3997066 | Tobacco lathing and spacing machine A machine for automatically inserting a lath through the stems of tobacco plants while maintaining a fixed spacing between the plants. The spacing can be preset over a continuous wide range. The plants are steered to the point of a spear by a guide which ... | 12/14/1976 |
| 3948553 | Method of harvesting tobacco and apparatus for bulk handling the harvested tobacco The present invention relates to a method of harvesting tobacco and system for bulk handling whole leaf flue cured tobacco between field harvesting and curing and drying operations. In the method of harvesting tobacco, tobacco leaves are defoliated from t... | 04/06/1976 |
| 3935959 | Container for bulk tobacco An apparatus for receiving a large quantity of green tobacco leaves in bulk form with an intermediate screen separating portions of the leaves along the entire length of the container and with a plurality of independent support rods for supporting the tob... | 02/03/1976 |
