| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| D271398 |
Rear mounted mower for tractors |
November 15, 1983 |
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| D268678 |
Baler |
April 19, 1983 |
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| D243948 |
Combined tractor and trailing implement for supporting a crop header |
April 5, 1977 |
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| 4894979 |
Sickle guard having adjustable knife section hold-down structure |
January 23, 1990 |
| The upper and lower finger portions of the sickle guard comprises two separate components which are disconnected at their tips so that the knife sections of the sickle can project forwardly beyond at least one of the fingers during operation and thereby provide a self-cleaning action for |
| 4850271 |
Round baler having simulated bale size and shape indicator |
July 25, 1989 |
| In a rotary crop baler for producing cylindrical crop bales, a simulated bale size and shape indicator is provided which provides the baler operator with a graphic representation of the size and shape of the bale being formed in the baler. The preferred indicator includes a potentiom |
| 4829756 |
Square baler having plunger cleanout means |
May 16, 1989 |
| A reciprocating plunger of a square baler has a series of cleanout probes fixed to an oscillating drive arm which reciprocates the plunger. The probes sweep along a path adjacent portions of a horizontal frame member of the plunger as the plunger moves through its operating cycle in orde |
| 4819418 |
Simplified crop baler |
April 11, 1989 |
| An inexpensive square baler is provided with an arcuate baling chamber and a plurality of spaced apart plunger elements shiftable about a kidney-shaped, closed loop path of travel. The baling chamber is partially defined by a horizontal table and a wrapper which have a number of common |
| 4815266 |
Continuous round baler with accumulating trailer |
March 28, 1989 |
| The baler has a "vertical" bale starting chamber in which the upwardly moving rear belts and the downwardly moving front belts cooperate to tumble and roll incoming material into a bale. When the bale reaches full size in the expanded chamber, the bale is lifted while still in its ch |
| 4813296 |
Flywheel sickle drive mechanism |
March 21, 1989 |
| An eccentric drive mechanism includes two shafts that are coupled to a wheel-like drive member such as a pulley, with one of the shafts being in offset relation to the other shaft and the central axis of the drive member. Each shaft represents inclined, flat wall portions in mutual i |
| 4746869 |
Circuit for testing inductive coils |
May 24, 1988 |
| An electrical circuit is provided for testing for an open circuit or short circuit in an inductive coil, solenoid, or the like. The preferred circuit includes a computer activated device for selectively imposing a direct current voltage on a coil, a detector for detecting current flow th |
| 4742880 |
Method and apparatus for determining the weight of bales issuing from a crop baler |
May 10, 1988 |
| Bales emanating from the discharge end of a baler are received on an accumulating trailer provided with a weighing scale that, in combination with an electrical system, automatically determines the weight of certain of the successively issuing bales and conveniently displays such weight |
| 4677814 |
Quick attach apparatus for crop harvest header and the like |
July 7, 1987 |
| Quick attachment of crop handling headers to harvesters employs one or more wedge locks, utilizing the mechanical forces thereof to, in turn, tightly and firmly wedge an elongated tongue portion of the header into mating relationship with a header-supporting channel member on the harvest |
| 4676053 |
Quick adjust flotation apparatus for a crop harvester |
June 30, 1987 |
| In a harvester wherein the frame is raised relative to ground wheels for roading purposes and such elevation of the frame stretches flotation springs to thereby lift the harvesting header off the ground, the amount of flotation force exerted by the springs on the header can be quickly an |
| 4663922 |
Quick attach apparatus for crop harvest header and the like |
May 12, 1987 |
| Quick attachment of crop handling headers to harvesters employs one or more wedge locks, utilizing the mechanical forces thereof to, in turn, tightly and firmly wedge an elongated tongue portion of the header into mating relationship with a header-supporting channel member on the harvest |
| 4637406 |
Chaff and straw spreading attachment for combines |
January 20, 1987 |
| The discharge hood of an agricultural combine has a housing suspended from the bottom thereof in disposition for receiving straw from straw walkers of the combine into a rotary chopper which impacts the straw and propels it rearwardly out through a spreader, while at the same time creati |
| 4637201 |
Wide-cut windrower-conditioner having uniform crop distribution and conditioning |
January 20, 1987 |
| Standing crops severed by sickle mechanism at the leading edge of the machine are swept upwardly and rearwardly along a platform by a rotating reel to a lower, center-gathering auger and an upper, spaced distributing auger that converge the materials centrally and distribute them evenly |
| 4617786 |
Forage harvester having supplemental crop disintegrating means |
October 21, 1986 |
| 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 upstream of the rotor, is adj |
| 4604858 |
Plunger cleanout apparatus for underfed crop baler |
August 12, 1986 |
| The reciprocating plunger of the baler has needle slots in its crop-engaging face from which accumulating crop materials are ejected during each retraction stroke of the plunger by stationary, horizontally extending probes telestationary, horizontally extending probes telescopically |
| 4553380 |
Adjustable hold down for the sickle of a reciprocating cutter assembly |
November 19, 1985 |
| A hold down for retention of reciprocable sickles of cutter assemblies is characterized by its inflexibility and provision of adjustability in relation to the cutter bar such as to preclude undue movement of the sickle sections away from their normal scissors-like cutting positions in |
| 4549482 |
Cylinder mounting apparatus for hydraulic squeeze control in a crop baler |
October 29, 1985 |
| The squeeze cylinder is inverted with the cylinder casing attached to a transverse, overhead truss above the bale case and the piston rod projecting downwardly from the casing for attachment to the upper squeeze plate of the apparatus. Oil is supplied to the cylinder on the upper side |
| 4524574 |
Underfed crop baler having single rotary feeder |
June 25, 1985 |
| The baler uses a single rotary feeder to take crop materials from the center-gathering augers of the windrow pickup and to sweep such materials upwardly and rearwardly through a loading duct into the baling chamber via an opening in the bottom of the latter. A single set of side-by-side |
| 4520878 |
Spring cushion chisel plow shank assembly |
June 4, 1985 |
| A spring cushion assembly for a chisel plow shank is provided that eliminates the transmission of force from the shank and assembly spring to the tension rod of the assembly in directions transverse to the axis of the tension rod, thereby prolonging the life of the entire assembly. The |
| 4516903 |
Elevator position-control mechanism for rotatable forage container |
May 14, 1985 |
| The forage receiving container box of a crop transporting vehicle is tiltable between a stowed position and a tilted operating position, and includes an unloading elevator spout that is shiftable by a position-control mechanism between stowed and extended positions simultaneously wit |
| 4512416 |
Flat fold implement frame |
April 23, 1985 |
| The normally horizontal frame of a wheeled farm implement, such as used for tillage purposes, has a center section at the ends of which are hinged a pair of wing sections that are fully foldable into overlying, substantially parallel relationship to the center section through use of |
| 4506898 |
Drift eliminator for series hydraulic lift system on tillage implements and the like |
March 26, 1985 |
| The double-acting hydraulic cylinders of the lift system are connected in a master-slave series relationship. When the cylinders have been retracted to a predetermined extent, a control valve between the last slave and a primary selector valve of the system is mechanically closed respons |
| 4503643 |
Sharpener assembly for the cutting cylinder of a crop harvester |
March 12, 1985 |
| The cutter box which houses a cutting cylinder on a harvester has an access opening in its top wall through which an abrasive, full-length sharpening stone may be alternately inserted and removed to engage and sharpen the peripherally located knives of the cylinder as the latter is rotat |
| 4500042 |
Two-way knife adjustment for crop harvester cutting cylinder |
February 19, 1985 |
| The knife is normally clamped tightly against a supporting arm by a retaining bolt, but when the bolt is sufficiently loosened, the bolt itself and the knife through which it passes may be forced radially inwardly or outwardly by shifting a transversely reciprocable slide plate in th |
| 4494904 |
Self-unloading on-the-go forage hopper |
January 22, 1985 |
| The rectangular forage receiving box or hopper of a crop transporting vehicle is stowed in a compacted, generally upright and squared-up position for over-the-road travel, yet may be rotated into a tilted more spacious and functional position for field operations. When in its field o |
| 4493601 |
High capacity, self-unloading forage hopper |
January 15, 1985 |
| The forage receiving container box of a crop transporting vehicle has a shiftable top that may be closed down to compact the box for over-the-road travel without exceeding applicable roading height and width restrictions and may be projected up when the box is prepared for field operatio |
| 4478030 |
Machine for cutting forage plants |
October 23, 1984 |
| The cutting cylinder of a forage harvester is provided with a plurality of fragmenting bars interspersed between the circumferentially spaced apart knives of the cylinder. Each of the fragmenting bars has a generally radially outwardly projecting portion that terminates in an outermost, |
| 4444409 |
Oscillator limit in articulated land vehicle |
April 24, 1984 |
| A self-propelled farm implement has independent front and rear, wheel supported frames articulated therebetween for execution of turns by operator steering of the front frame from within a cab that is, in turn, mounted on the front frame. The rear frame carries a crop receiving bin w |
| 4440075 |
Round baler having wrapping twine cutter |
April 3, 1984 |
| The dispensing end of a round baler's swingable twine dispenser projects outwardly through an aperture in the baler sidewall when the dispenser is in a standby position, and a twine severing blade is mounted to the sidewall proximal to the aperture. The twine is drawn across the severing |
| 4429517 |
Harvesting header with adjustable draper for left, right or center delivery |
February 7, 1984 |
| The header has generally transversely disposed, flat, apron-like conveyor mechanism for receiving the stalks of grain or other crop materials severed along the leading edge of the header and for gathering such materials so that they might be discharged in a continuous stream for prod |
| 4422373 |
Throat control apparatus in an open throat, rotary baler |
December 27, 1983 |
| The baler has an internal chamber within which crop materials are coiled up into a cylindrical bale by oppositely moving belts which are looped around a pair of spaced apart guide rollers at the bottom of the chamber to define a wide-open, entrance throat to the chamber from the windrow |
| 4418873 |
Cutting cylinder having knife position adjustment |
December 6, 1983 |
| The cylinder supports a series of knives at its outer periphery which extend generally parallel to the axis of rotation of the cylinder, spanning a plurality of supporting bulkheads that are provided with special mounting assemblies which adjustably attach the knives thereto. The kni |
| 4409783 |
Rotary baler with improved roller mounts for endless belt replacement |
October 18, 1983 |
| A rotary crop baler belt roller mount is provided which facilitates the changing and installation of endless bale-forming belts. A mount is provided adjacent one end of each transverse belt-supporting roller and includes an annular spacer removably mounted between the end of the roller |
| 4392339 |
Crop windrowing machine having double windrow-forming attachment |
July 12, 1983 |
| The windrower, which may be of the mower or mower-conditioner type, is provided with a double windrowing attachment at the rear thereof which may be lowered into a double windrowing mode or raised into a non-operative position for single windrowing. Severed crops are converged centrally |
| 4390092 |
Anti-slip bale thrower |
June 28, 1983 |
| The thrower is attached to the discharge end of a baler in position to receive bales successively issuing therefrom. A pair of generally superimposed conveyors of the thrower operate at relatively high speeds compared to the speed at which the bales issue from the baler, and as the l |
| 4386661 |
Rear mounted rotary tiller |
June 7, 1983 |
| The low-profile, lightweight tiller of compact, uncluttered design is adapted to be rigidly mounted upon the rear, powered lifting links of a garden tractor so as to be raised and lowered by the latter between transport and ground-working positions. Driving power for the transverse r |
| 4386493 |
Method and apparatus for making large round crop bales |
June 7, 1983 |
| The bale-forming machine has rolling mechanism that initially tumbles loose crop material forwardly between the mechanism and the ground as the machine advances along a windrow. Thereafter, the rolling material becomes confined off the ground in an elevated forming chamber as additional |
| 4358241 |
Bucket assembly for tractors |
November 9, 1982 |
| A multi-purpose rear attachment for power lifts and drawbars of tractors has a bucket for handling bulk materials which is self-filling when used as a scoop and the capability of use as a scraper, a spreader and a leveler of the materials it transports. Linkage connected to the drawbar |
| 4354429 |
Bale wrapping apparatus |
October 19, 1982 |
| An improved method is provided for wrapping generally cylindrical bales of hay with twine to maintain the structural integrity thereof, in which a unique pattern of twine bindings is utilized to achieve greater strength and reliability. A related form of improved bale wrapping apparatus |
| 4348857 |
Rotary mower conditioner |
September 14, 1982 |
| A pair of generally flat, horizontally disposed mowing rotors at the front of the machine sever the standing crops as the machine is advanced and, by creation of an air stream as well as through a physical throwing force, the rotors propel the severed crops rearwardly through a centrally |
| 4345870 |
Quick attach loader |
August 24, 1982 |
| A tractor and a loader implement detachably mounted thereon have releasable front and rear locks at corresponding pairs of legs depending from the loader frame. A loader bucket on the boom assembly and a stand on the frame cooperate to support the attachment after removal from the tracto |
| 4336750 |
Stray crop buildup expeller for rotary balers |
June 29, 1982 |
| The baler has a set of belts which bear against the surface of a cylindrical bale during formation thereof to compact the bale and to drive it rotatably about its longitudinal axis. Such belts are guided by shafts spanning the chamber of the baler, certain of which may be provided with |
| 4327932 |
Overlapped folding beam implement |
May 4, 1982 |
| The tillage implement has tool beam assemblies that project laterally outwardly in opposite directions from the central fore-and-aft axis of the implement, and the inboard ends of the assemblies are overlapped transversely with respect to the path of travel of the implement while als |
| 4321787 |
Method and apparatus for making large round crop bales |
March 30, 1982 |
| The bale-forming machine has rolling mechanism that initially tumbles loose crop material forwardly between the mechanism and the ground as the machine advances along a windrow. Thereafter, the rolling material becomes confined off the ground in an elevated forming chamber as additional |
| 4312245 |
Valve control mechanism |
January 26, 1982 |
| Actuation of a valve is prevented under certain circumstances wherein an axially reciprocable stem connected to the valve has shoulders thereon, which shoulders are selectively engageable by shiftable blocking bars. |
| 4301647 |
Forage chopping cylinder |
November 24, 1981 |
| The chopping cylinder has knives that extend longitudinally of the axis of rotation of the cylinder and which are twisted in such a way that their longitudinal cutting edges wind generally helically around the periphery of the cylinder so that a scissor-like shearing cut is obtained as t |
| 4297833 |
Crop pickup with outboard cam control |
November 3, 1981 |
| The windrow crop pickup has tines which are controlled by a cam at one end of the pickup reel so that the tines rock to-and-fro in a particular pattern during rotation about the axis of the reel, such action aiding in proper uplift of the crop from the ground and subsequent stripping of |
