| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| D315030 |
Mini-spotlight |
February 26, 1991 |
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| D314833 |
Outdoor lighting fixture |
February 19, 1991 |
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| D312053 |
Infrared motion detector |
November 13, 1990 |
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| D310577 |
Post light fixture |
September 11, 1990 |
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| D308658 |
Tire |
June 19, 1990 |
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| D307655 |
Convertible blower and vacuum |
May 1, 1990 |
|
| D305198 |
Handle for an electric string trimmer or the like |
December 26, 1989 |
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| D305125 |
Snowthrower |
December 19, 1989 |
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| D304324 |
Multi-outlet center |
October 31, 1989 |
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| D304058 |
Shoulder and arm exercise machine |
October 17, 1989 |
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| D303696 |
Leg exercise machine |
September 26, 1989 |
|
| D293815 |
Riser for sprinkler heads |
January 19, 1988 |
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| D290835 |
Multi-outlet center |
July 14, 1987 |
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| D280111 |
Holder for flat articles such as display cards or the like |
August 13, 1985 |
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| D278537 |
Snow thrower |
April 23, 1985 |
|
| D265826 |
Electric cultivator |
August 17, 1982 |
|
| D264491 |
Sprinkler |
May 18, 1982 |
|
| D264173 |
Powered implement handle |
May 4, 1982 |
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| D262182 |
Implement handle |
December 8, 1981 |
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| D260898 |
Snow thrower housing |
September 22, 1981 |
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| D253086 |
Vegetation trimmer |
October 9, 1979 |
|
| D251786 |
Snow thrower |
May 8, 1979 |
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| D250450 |
Cordless vegetation trimmer |
December 5, 1978 |
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| D249629 |
Folding control handle for lawn and garden implement |
September 26, 1978 |
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| D249267 |
Combined self-propelled tractor and mowing apparatus |
September 5, 1978 |
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| D249042 |
Lawn and garden tractor |
August 22, 1978 |
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| 7619322 |
Two-wire power and communications for irrigation systems |
November 17, 2009 |
| A large number of irrigation system devices connected to a common two-wire cable can be powered and individually controlled from a central location by transmitting over the cable DC pulses of alternating polarity. Control information is conveyed by transmitting a command pulse train cons |
| 7617882 |
Powered sand grooming vehicle with yieldable front bulldozer blade attached to steerable front w |
November 17, 2009 |
| A vehicle for grooming sand or the like includes a quick attachment for connecting a front bulldozer blade or other implement to a steerable front wheel of the vehicle. When the front wheel pivots while steering, the front blade pivots with the front wheel to minimize catching the fr |
| 7613546 |
Modular irrigation controller |
November 3, 2009 |
| The present invention provides a modular controller that connects to irrigation modules with varying station terminals and a standard footprint size. Additionally, the modular controller includes surge protection options, wireless communication with PDA's and other external devices, |
| 7611076 |
Line marker with reservoir drain into paint bucket and mult-position spray nozzle with a rear sp |
November 3, 2009 |
| A line marker has a wheeled frame on which an outrigger arm is pivotally carried. The outrigger arm carries a spray nozzle. The spray nozzle can be placed in a rear spray position or in a front spray position depending upon whether the outrigger arm extends rearwardly or forwardly from a |
| 7610975 |
Electric drive riding mower |
November 3, 2009 |
| An electric drive mower includes an electric traction drive as well as electric drive to the cutting units carried on the mower. A hybrid electric drive system supplies electric power to these motors. The electric drive system includes a genset (an internal combustion engine driving |
| 7600573 |
Tine holder for turf aerator |
October 13, 2009 |
| A tine holder for holding a plurality of aerator tines has a plurality of substantially vertical, tapered bores. A tapered collar is adapted to be received in each bore with the collar being split so that the collar contracts as the collar is slid into the bore. The upper end of an a |
| 7600363 |
Easily removable mower cutting deck |
October 13, 2009 |
| A rotary cutting deck is suspended from the frame of a lawn mower to hang beneath the frame of the mower between the front and rear ground engaging wheels of the mower. A single front pull arm is pinned by a pivot pin to the front of the cutting deck. This pivot pin can be easily release |
| 7584023 |
Electronic irrigation system software |
September 1, 2009 |
| In one embodiment, the present invention includes irrigation control software for a computer that interacts with the features of a plurality of advanced sprinklers, environmental sensors, and other available data. The irrigation control software provides a graphical user interface to |
| 7581374 |
Grass cutting unit having compression molded UHMW plastic roller |
September 1, 2009 |
| A cutting unit for a mower is supported for rolling over the ground by at least one ground engaging roller. The roller may be grooved over its length to comprise a Wiehle roller. The roller is formed by an ultra high molecular weight plastic roller body that is integrally molded over and |
| 7574284 |
Method and apparatus for optimizing soil moisture |
August 11, 2009 |
| A self-adjusting irrigation controller takes a pre-irrigation soil moisture reading prior to irrigation, chooses an amount of water to be dispensed corresponding to that reading from a table, and dispenses that amount of water. A predetermined length of time after the end of irrigati |
| 7552632 |
Raindrop sensor for an irrigation system |
June 30, 2009 |
| The present invention describes a rain sensor that counts water drops with a microcontroller. After a predetermined threshold of water drops have been counted, the rain sensor interrupts an irrigation schedule of an irrigation controller. |
| 7540131 |
Ground speed control system with hill assist, cruise control and lockout lever |
June 2, 2009 |
| A ground speed control system for an outdoor power equipment unit comprises a slidable handle grip that moves up and down on a handle to decrease and increase the ground speed, respectively. A pivotal control lever is provided on the handle grip. The pivotal lever includes a toothed |
| 7520348 |
Tracked implement with pivotal front and trailing idlers and powered rear drive member |
April 21, 2009 |
| This invention relates to a mower and a tracked implement that convert from one to the other by coupling a mower unit or a tracked unit to a common drive unit. The drive unit is thus used in both products to provide cost savings in the purchase of the equipment. In the tracked unit, |
| 7520346 |
Hydraulic power unit |
April 21, 2009 |
| A compact dual hydraulic pump unit having a low profile configuration. The inlet and outlet ports of the pumps may be located on opposite transverse sides of the unit for easy connection to adjacent motors coupled to the drive wheels of a vehicle. |
| 7520114 |
Mower with ground following cutting deck and weight transfer between deck and frame |
April 21, 2009 |
| This invention relates to a mower and a tracked implement that convert from one to the other by coupling a mower unit or a tracked unit to a common drive unit. The drive unit is thus used in both products to provide cost savings in the purchase of the equipment. In the tracked unit, |
| 7506403 |
Blower/vac debris collection system with collection bag on movable wheeled cart |
March 24, 2009 |
| A debris collection system for use with a portable, hand held blower/vac comprises a wheeled cart. A collection bag is releasably carried on the cart. A connecting hose releasably couples the collection bag to the fan outlet of the blower/vac to fill the collection bag with debris picked |
| 7482612 |
Optical moisture sensor and method of making the same |
January 27, 2009 |
| A soil moisture sensor uses a non-collimated light source and a photosensor, respectively, mounted at the foci of a transparent ellipsoidal plastic body. The dimensions of the body are such that emitted light rays are internally reflected toward the photosensor at the surface of the |
| 7472759 |
Aerator with shortened coring head depth |
January 6, 2009 |
| A walk aerator comprises a frame supported by a plurality of ground engaging wheels, the frame carrying a coring head having a plurality of side-by-side tine assemblies. The wheels define a wheelbase which is substantially equal to or less than the width of a coring swath and the whe |
| 7472500 |
Snowthrower deflector control |
January 6, 2009 |
| A U-shaped handle is physically attached to the back of a deflector atop a snow directing chute on a snowthrower. The deflector pivots atop the chute to adjust the trajectory of a stream of snow being thrown by the snowthrower. The handle is gripped and moved up and down to effect a |
| 7464528 |
Powered ZRT sand grooming vehicle and method of grooming sand traps |
December 16, 2008 |
| A sand grooming vehicle comprises a vehicle having zero radius turn capability. The vehicle includes a front caster wheel, two independently driven rear wheels, and twin control sticks for allowing spin turning of the vehicle by driving the outboard drive wheel and stopping or reversing |
| 7404525 |
Nozzle base clutch |
July 29, 2008 |
| A rotary sprinkler having a rotatable nozzle assembly for watering an arc of ground traversed or swept by the nozzle assembly as the nozzle assembly rotates is disclosed. Oscillating rotation is achieved via a drive train that includes a trip spring that is drivable between first and |
| 7401425 |
Snowthrower wheel drive steering system |
July 22, 2008 |
| A snowthrower has independent wheel drive trains to allow steering by clutching one drive train while unclutching the other drive train. The clutch in each drive train comprises a plurality of pivotal pawls carried on a drive member with the pawls pivoting in a plane that is substant |
| 7395652 |
Reel mower with adjustable bedknife having constant longitudinal location relative to reel |
July 8, 2008 |
| A walk reel mower includes a pair of inclined rigid links for mounting the reel cutting unit to the reel mower frame for rolling about a longitudinal axis, and a pair of vertical support arms for mounting the reel cutting unit to the reel mower frame for pitching about a transverse a |
| 7392956 |
Rotary sprinkler with arc adjustment guide and flow-through shaft |
July 1, 2008 |
| A rotary sprinkler having an adjustable arc segment whose angular extent and absolute direction relative to the ground are represented by an arc indicator, which arc indicator may comprise a band whose visible length represents the angular extent and whose position on the sprinkler point |
