| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 4084396 |
Adjustable row spacing forage head |
April 18, 1978 |
| Individual row units on the harvester, each including a crop transfer trough, cutting apparatus at the forward end of the trough, and cooperating conveyors along the trough, are independently swingable relative to one another for changing the distance between the troughs at their for |
| 4078437 |
Sickle drive |
March 14, 1978 |
| A motion transmitting device is capable of transferring motion between a reciprocable element in one plane and a rotatable crank in a parallel, second plane. A connector extending axially from the crank and coupled with the reciprocable element is pivotally restrained at its midpoint |
| 4074623 |
Method for binding a crop bale |
February 21, 1978 |
| In a crop baler each compacted bale is progressively formed in the bale chamber and incrementally advanced therethrough by the successive packing of new charges of loose material into the chamber against the trailing end of the partial bale. Yieldable resistance to movement of the bale t |
| 4073377 |
Feed rolls having automatic speed control |
February 14, 1978 |
| The shiftably supported, rotatable feed rolls on a forage harvester or other material processing machine are operably coupled to a control lever on the hydraulic pump regulating the feed roll drive motor such that the angular velocity of the rolls is increased in response to shifting |
| 4066274 |
Tandem folding implement |
January 3, 1978 |
| Tandemly disposed tool beams project laterally outwardly from opposite sides of the central tongue of the implement and may be swung horizontally between laterally widespread, working positions and folded back, compacted, transport positions. Collapsing linkages between the tongue and |
| 4062280 |
Brake for tying needles of crop baler |
December 13, 1977 |
| The shaft which drives the tying needles of a baler back and forth across the bale chamber has a cam-operated brake associated therewith for intermittent application and release of the brake at preselected points along the path of swinging travel of the needles. The cam is located at |
| 4061194 |
Tractor mounted scraper blade |
December 6, 1977 |
| A material handling assembly has a frame for attachment to the three point hitch of a tractor. A laterally swingable boom extends rearwardly from the frame and has an upright shaft at its rear end rotatable about an upright axis for suspending a reversible scraper blade whose angularity |
| 4060961 |
Crop harvesting rotor |
December 6, 1977 |
| A rotor for crop handling machines has a plurality of double-pivoted, radially-extending arms and structure on the segments of each arm to position the segments such that any radially inwardly directed impact force, such as from stones and other obstructions, causes immediate bucklin |
| 4053071 |
Method and apparatus for transporting and processing multiple round bales |
October 11, 1977 |
| Large round bales are picked up in the field by forcing the inclined bed of the machine beneath the bales while simultaneously drawing them onto the bed with a conveyor chain. With the bed leveled, the bales can be transported end-to-end to a feeding location and, while still moving, |
| 4052011 |
Combination stack mover and processor |
October 4, 1977 |
| A machine for handling large crop masses and the like is presented which permits completely automatic processing of these masses and requires only a single operator to effectively manipulate the machine to perform this function. A tiltable bed having a fore-and-aft conveyor is arranged b |
| 4044906 |
Multiple round bale mover |
August 30, 1977 |
| Large round bales are gathered in the field with a towable implement having a long bed that may be tipped forwardly or rearwardly to the ground about an intermediate transverse axis in order to accomplish front or rear loading of the implement. Bales are successively loaded by driving |
| 4044557 |
Feed rolls having automatic speed control |
August 30, 1977 |
| The shiftably supported, rotatable feed rolls on a forage harvester or other material processing machine are operably coupled to a control lever on the hydraulic pump regulating the feed roll drive motor such that the angular velocity of the rolls is increased in response to shifting |
| 4038880 |
Drive train and transmission for forage harvester |
August 2, 1977 |
| A belt transmission has a clutch that keeps both belts moving in the same direction when the transmission is in the forward mode and slackens only one of the belts during the usually brief interval that the transmission is placed in its reverse mode with the other belt moving in the reve |
| 4037528 |
Density control mechanism for crop baler |
July 26, 1977 |
| The discharge end of a bale chamber may be constricted or enlarged such that bales being packed rearwardly through the chamber may be increased or decreased in density by regulating their resistance to exit from the chamber. Bell cranks at the four corners of the chamber are coupled with |
| 4034543 |
Crop density sensing mechanism for baler loading apparatus |
July 12, 1977 |
| If the next charge to be stuffed into the baling chamber has not yet reached the desired size and density by the time the stuffing fork and compacting plunger are ready to begin their next operating cycles, the plunger and the fork are temporarily deactivated until the charge reaches |
| 4033101 |
Continuous load stack-forming method and machine |
July 5, 1977 |
| In the interval between successive press cycles, crop material is picked up from the field and loaded into the stack-forming body of the machine. However, upon initiation of a press cycle, crop material, which continues to be picked up as the machine is advanced, is diverted into an |
| 4022501 |
Knotter mechanism bill hook |
May 10, 1977 |
| The stationary, lower jaw of the rotary bill hook has a transversely bulbous toe at its forward end that protrudes laterally outwardly in opposite directions from the longitudinal axis of the jaw. A laterally constricted neck immediately behind the toe retains strands looped around t |
| 4022005 |
Double windrowing method and apparatus |
May 10, 1977 |
| A double windrow attachment for self-propelled or pull-type windrowing machines receives crop which has been projected rearwardly from conditioning apparatus of the machine and transfers the crop obliquely to one side of the path of travel of the machine without discontinuing the rea |
| 4021999 |
Sickle assembly |
May 10, 1977 |
| The backing bar of the sickle overlies the cutter sections and is confined during its reciprocation within an elevated channel defined at the front by the rear ends of the tangs on the sickle guards and at the rear by the front ends of hold-down clips extending along and immediately behi |
| 4021995 |
Crop conditioning rotor |
May 10, 1977 |
| Diametrically opposed, outwardly projecting elements of a rotor have rubber pads clamped between the same and the hub of the rotor by one or more fasteners common to both elements. The fasteners can shift axially through the hub in response to deflection of one of the elements counter to |
| 4019287 |
Spiral knife sharpener |
April 26, 1977 |
| The cutting cylinder of a forage harvester has helically oriented knives which may be sharpened by shifting a spinning grinding stone back and forth across the housing for the cylinder in parallel relationship with the axis of rotation of the cylinder. Opposed sets of roller guides which |
| 4016712 |
Machine for forming high density round bales |
April 12, 1977 |
| The bale is formed by rolling it between an arcuate retaining grid at the front of the bale and an upwardly moving, flexible belt at the rear of the bale while continuously adding additional crop material to the forming chamber. The grid and the belts yield away from one another under |
| 4011998 |
Forage harvester having combined cut-and-throw cylinder |
March 15, 1977 |
| The cutting cylinder has knife segments extending across its periphery in a staggered pattern so that each row winds essentially helically from end to end of the cylinder, thereby providing an effective shearing action as the knife segments cooperate with a stationary shear bar to sever |
| 4009554 |
Windrower having shiftable tongue pivot |
March 1, 1977 |
| The rear pivot point of a swingable tongue on a towable implement can be shifted laterally with respect to the path of travel of the implement so that the latter can be offset on either side of the towing vehicle without requiring a tongue that is unduly lengthy or subjected to a severe |
| 4003484 |
Swing mechanism for implement boom |
January 18, 1977 |
| The boom of an earth-working implement, such as a backhoe, is swung laterally to-and-fro through a substantial arc by mechanism that requires only a single, double-acting, fluid pressure piston and cylinder assembly. A shaft on the boom is journaled onto the frame of the implement and |
| 3997118 |
Liquid manure handling machine |
December 14, 1976 |
| A liquid manure transport implement is provided with a vertically retractable loader and a spreader which are arranged to fit neatly within the general width and height dimensions of the manure tank on the rear end of the latter. An internally carried conveyor unit, associated with the |
| 3997069 |
Round bale hauler and unroller |
December 14, 1976 |
| The round bale handling apparatus is adapted for mounting on the three-point hitch of a farm tractor and has a vertically swingable, normally fore-and-aft extending boom provided with a crosshead at its outermost end having depending arms that clamp and rotatably support a round bale |
| 3995412 |
Row unit attachment for combines |
December 7, 1976 |
| A harvesting machine, such as a combine, may be adapted for the harvesting of row crops by attaching a series of laterally spaced-apart, individual row units across the header of the combine. Each unit attachment is of low-profile configuration having a pair of downwardly and forwardly |
| 3989272 |
Variable offset hitch |
November 2, 1976 |
| A variable offset hitch is especially adapted for selectively positioning a semi-mounted implement in a trailing, laterally offset relationship to a towing tractor having a three-point hitch. A pair of laterally spaced mounts, each having a plurality of horizontally spaced, upright lugs, |
| 3979074 |
Method and apparatus for processing crop stacks |
September 7, 1976 |
| A machine particularly suited for the range or bunk feeding of animal foodstuffs in stacks, large bales, or groups of smaller bales is designed to disintegrate the mass of material on the move and to discharge the disintegrated material in a continuous stream along the ground or into the |
| 3968634 |
Stack-forming machine having uniform loading control |
July 13, 1976 |
| The discharge spout of the pickup in a stack-forming machine is provided with baffle structure inside the spout and adjacent the discharge opening that oscillates horizontally and continuously through a stream of crops being projected into the forming body of the machine in order to brea |
| 3968633 |
Round bale forming machine for light crop materials |
July 13, 1976 |
| A machine for producing large round bales passes over loose hay on the ground, picks up the hay adjacent the rear of the machine and coils the hay within a forming chamber as the bale is rolled along the ground to progressively grow in size until reaching its final dimensions, whereupon |
| 3968632 |
Machine for forming round bales |
July 13, 1976 |
| A machine for producing large round bales passes over loose hay on the ground, picks up the hay adjacent the rear of the machine and coils the hay within a forming chamber as the bale is rolled along the ground to progressively grow in size until reaching its final dimensions, whereupon |
| 3966065 |
Safety hold-down apparatus for tractor-mounted earth working implements |
June 29, 1976 |
| An implement attachment in the form of, for example, a backhoe is mounted on the three-point hitch of a tractor having an internal hydraulic system which is incapable of preventing free upward swinging on the part of the hitch links. The implement itself includes a main frame attached to |
| 3963607 |
Loading and cleaning elevator for harvesters |
June 15, 1976 |
| An elevator such as for loading harvested crops into an awaiting receptacle employs chain-driven, fingered flights that roll and tumble the crops up an inclined grill consisting of laterally spaced-apart rods so that dirt and other trash material are dislodged from the crops by the aggre |
| 3962849 |
Caster wheel arm |
June 15, 1976 |
| The windrow pickup header of a forage harvester is supported at least in part by gauging means that senses rises and falls in the terrain in front of the header to swing the latter up and down to accommodate such unevenness in the terrain. Long, generally fore-and-aft extending arms on |
| 3942602 |
Neutral safety lock for hydraulic implement controls |
March 9, 1976 |
| The two actuating levers of hydraulic pumps which control the direction and proportionate volumes of fluid flow to hydraulic motors in a hydraulic steering, speed, and direction control system may be locked in neutral by components located at the pumps but operated remotely from the cab |
| 3941003 |
Balanced sickle drive |
March 2, 1976 |
| A sickle drive has a sway bar that is coupled with the sickle to reciprocate the latter during oscillation of the sway bar. The latter is operably coupled with a crank drive through a special linkage employing a pair of oppositely extending, short pitman links that compensate for one |
| 3938681 |
Grappling hayfork |
February 17, 1976 |
| A vertically swingable boom is provided with a downwardly opening grappling fork having horizontally swingable tines that are operated in unison by mechanism reciprocable vertically across the outer end of the boom. Power is supplied to the mechanism via a vertically swingable rocker and |
| 3934394 |
Continuous feeding for stack forming loaders |
January 27, 1976 |
| In the stacking of hay or other crops, a windrow or swath is lifted off the ground, fed into a pile collected by a vehicle-supported, stack-forming body and the pile compressed from time to time in the body, all in a continuous operation as the vehicle is advanced across the field, by |
