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Class Information
Number: 56
Name: Harvesters >
Description: This class includes means for severing crops which grow above the surface of the ground, without disturbing the soil, and means for gathering the same from the field after they are severed. Subject matter relating to cutting crop material lying on the ground without disturbing the soil is also included.


Class Number Class Name No. of Patents
56/DIG.8

Air gathering

49
56/321

Anti-side-draft devices

1
56/DIG.19

Beaters and wipers

7
56/DIG.13

Bermuda grass cutters

1
56/DIG.20

Blades, reels and guards

93
56/DIG.12

Brush

22
56/473.5

Carriers

16
56/DIG.6

Clutches and gearing

46
56/365

Combined rakes and tedders

33
56/368

Draft dumping rake

1
56/367

Revolving rake

39
56/366

Side-delivery rake

40
56/369

Transverse tedder crank shaft

1
56/432

Compressing and binding

23
56/458

Band-tucker type

1
56/459

Straw band

0
56/462

Band formers

0
56/460

Band forming

0
56/461

Rotating bundle

0
56/464

Cord band and clip

0
56/465

Flat metal clip

1
56/433

Cord knotter type

2
56/434

Adjustable position

4
56/435

Knotting

2
56/447

Auxiliary manual trip

0
56/449

Ejectors and discharge gates

4
56/445

Knotting

1
56/448

Needle cleaners and guards

1
56/446

Packers

3
56/443

Packing

3
56/444

Knotting

1
56/436

Pressure tripped

0
56/442

Knotting

0
56/440

Packing

1
56/441

Knotting

0
56/437

Upstanding compressor control

1
56/438

Packing

0
56/439

Knotting

0
56/450

Tension and take-up devices

1
56/463

Prepared band

0
56/451

Wire twister type

1
56/452

Single wire

0
56/453

Curved binder arm

0
56/455

Forked end

0
56/454

Laterally mounted

0
56/456

Twister on binder arm

0
56/457

Twisters

0
56/DIG.15

Condition responsive

230
56/2

Convertible

67
56/5

Cutter and detachable catcher

2
56/3

Cutter and detachable conveyer

1
 

Rake

 
56/4

Vertical axis

0
56/51

Cornstalk type

30
56/53

Cutters

16
56/54

Broom corn

1
56/55

Reel gatherer

0
56/102

Cutting members

18
56/101

Fixed cutter

1
56/67

Self-binders

0
56/68

Upright binder

0
56/69

Endless-chain gatherer

1
56/70

Binder position adjustable

2
56/56

Toppers with catchers

4
56/59

Endless-chain gatherer

3
56/57

Reel gatherer

1
56/58

Horizontal axis

1
56/60

With choppers

42
56/61

With catchers

2
56/71

With dischargers

6
56/72

Crane type

1
56/73

With gatherers

1
56/75

Endless chain

4
56/74

Reel

0
56/76

Endless apron

0
56/78

Endless-chain gatherer

2
56/77

Reel gatherer

0
56/93

Endless-chain gatherer

7
56/79

Horizontally moving and tilting

2
56/80

With gatherers

3
56/82

Endless chain

4
56/81

Reel

1
56/92

Reel gatherer

1
56/90

Retracting support

1
56/91

Reel gatherer

0
56/83

Tilting

2
56/84

With gatherers

5
56/88

Endless chain

3
56/89

Fixed

1
56/86

Reel

0
56/87

Horizontal axis

0
56/85

Spiral

2
56/94

With gatherers

35
56/98

Endless chains

85
56/99

Fixed

3
56/100

Fixed cutter

0
56/96

Reel

1
56/97

Horizontal axis

3
56/95

Spiral

12
56/64

With pickers or huskers

15
56/66

Endless-chain gatherer

11
56/65

Reel gatherer

0
56/62

With strippers

14
56/63

With toppers

26
56/119

Gatherers or guides

153
56/103

Pickers or huskers

8
56/113

Fixed snapper

6
56/114

Comb

1
56/115

With knife

0
56/116

Moving comb

0
56/117

Moving knife

3
56/118

On endless chain

2
56/104

Roller

19
56/107

Auxiliary ear detacher

1
56/108

With endless-chain gatherers only

1
56/109

Movable gatherer

4
56/111

Endless chain only

11
56/112

Adjustable roller frame

1
56/110

Spiral

7
56/105

Plurality of rows

8
56/106

With endless-chain gatherers only

25
56/121

Sheaf carriers

0
56/120

Sheaf loaders

0
56/52

Stalk breakers

6
56/28

Cotton

124
56/29

Flail or whip

1
56/36

Pickers

11
56/49

Endless belt

4
56/37

Individually directed

2
56/38

Endless belt

1
56/39

Manually operated

0
56/40

Rotary or oscillating

13
56/48

Drum

3
56/41

Spindle

51
56/42

Belt carried

0
56/43

Cam-track guide

3
56/44

Rotary carrier

14
56/47

Cam-track guide

2
56/45

Flexible spindle

1
56/46

Reciprocating

0
56/50

Spindles

23
56/30

Pneumatic

46
56/31

Individually directed

2
56/32

Nozzles

7
56/33

Strippers

14
56/34

Comb

9
56/35

Moving

2
56/DIG.1

Crusher

133
56/DIG.17

Cutter details

88
56/121.4

Cutters with plant or crop contacting gauge (e.g., beet toppers)

10
56/121.46

Gauge and cutter relatively adjustable responsive to height and/or size of plant

7
56/121.41

Laterally self-aligning gauging and cutting means

4
56/121.43

Plural cuts at successive heights and/or slitting

8
56/121.44

With cut top disposal

6
56/121.45

Movable disposing members

1
56/121.42

With preliminary foliage arranging

6
56/194

Cutting and catching

18
56/202

Catchers

309
56/203

Discharging

25
56/206

Rearwardly dropping member

6
56/204

Revolving

3
56/205

Upwardly swinging rear gate

14
56/201

Manually propelled

1
56/198

Rotating cutting reel

5
56/199

Catchers

23
56/200

Discharging

6
56/195

Side cutter

1
56/197

Front

0
56/196

Rear

0
56/153

Cutting and conveying

13
56/191

Binder's platforms

0
56/154

Endless cutter

5
56/155

Oscillating cutter

2
56/158

Reciprocating-cutter type

14
56/181

Endless carrier

22
56/186

Central cutter, co-axial wheels

0
56/187

Tilting platform

0
56/188

Pivoted tongue

0
56/182

Deflected course

3
56/185

Elevated delivery

1
56/183

Intermittent

0
56/184

With discharging catcher

1
56/159

Folding platform

1
56/163

Hand-raking mechanism

0
56/180

Rake heads and arms

1
56/164

Self-raking mechanism

0
56/166

Dumping catcher

0
56/165

Gaveling tongs

1
56/178

Horizontal circuit

0
56/179

Belt carried

1
56/173

Reciprocating

0
56/174

Belt actuated

0
56/175

Reciprocating belt

0
56/167

Rotating

2
56/168

Reciprocating head

0
56/169

Vertical axis

1
56/170

Switch

0
56/171

Automatic control

0
56/172

Auxiliary manual control

0
56/176

Vertical circuit

0
56/177

Belt carried

0
56/160

With binder's platform

0
56/162

Belt-carried endless path

1
56/161

Self-raking mechanism

0
56/157

Rotary cutting disk

21
56/156

Rotary cutting reel

10
56/189

Swathing attachments

4
56/190

Windshields

9
56/193

Cutting and raking

6
56/192

Cutting and windrowing

147
56/131

Cutting, conveying and binding

7
56/141

Endwise delivery

0
56/142

Knotting

0
56/134

Folding platform

2
56/135

High outside binder

0
56/137

Binder position adjustable

0
56/138

Knotting

0
56/136

Folding binder frame

4
56/139

Knotting

0
56/152

Knotting

0
56/143

Low down

0
56/144

Curved path

0
56/145

Knotting

1
56/146

Inside delivery

2
56/147

Knotting

0
56/151

Knotting

1
56/148

Outside delivery

1
56/150

Knotting

0
56/149

Through bull wheel

0
56/133

Straw-band type

0
56/140

Upright binder

1
56/132

Wire-twister type

1
56/122

Cutting, conveying and threshing

8
56/123

Reciprocating cutter

4
56/124

Central swath, co-axial wheels

4
56/125

Longitudinally hinged cutter frame

1
56/229

Cutting

17
56/289

Cutter members

13
56/290

Endless

6
56/291

Horizontal orbit

19
56/292

With tension adjustment

4
56/293

Oscillating

7
56/296

Reciprocating

51
56/304

Antifriction devices

6
56/297

Double sickle

21
56/307

Guard fingers and bars

26
56/310

Fingers only

15
56/311

With ledger plate

5
56/308

Modified finger

8
56/309

With ledger plate

3
56/312

Supplemental lifting fingers

11
56/313

Socket for guard-finger point

7
56/305

Guiding clips

10
56/306

Shock absorbers

8
56/303

Shoes and knife heads

8
56/298

Sickles and guard fingers and bars

47
56/299

Sickles

9
56/300

Detachable sections

11
56/302

Auxiliary locking bar

1
56/301

Detachable from end of bar

2
56/295

Rotating cutting disk

445
56/294

Rotating cutting reel

86
56/244

Endless cutter

13
56/245

Side cut

1
56/239

Hand-operated cutter

28
56/240

Oscillating

1
56/241

Single pair of shears

6
56/242

Reciprocating

7
56/243

Hand crank

0
56/233

Hedge or plant-row trimmers

30
56/234

Plurality of cutters

16
56/236

All reciprocating

9
56/235

All rotary disk

43
56/237

Single cutter for top or side

18
56/320.1

Housing or guard

217
56/320.2

With discharge opening

226
56/246

Oscillating cutter

12
56/248

Side cut

0
56/247

Vertical cut

0
56/230

Railroad

3
56/232

Reciprocating cutter

0
56/231

Rotating cutting reel

0
56/257

Reciprocating central cutter

24
56/258

Co-axial wheels

0
56/262

Cam drive

0
56/263

With lever

2
56/259

Double sickle

6
56/260

Pitman drive

3
56/261

With lever

0
56/264

Reciprocating side cutter

4
56/288

Alignments

0
56/271

Front cut

1
56/272

Co-axial wheels

0
56/274

Automatic clutch shipper

0
56/287

Cutter-bar mountings only

1
56/275

Double sickle

2
56/276

Lifting and rocking cutter bar

1
56/282

Cutter-bar mountings only

1
56/281

Gag lever

0
56/277

With foot lever

0
56/280

Cutter-bar mountings only

0
56/278

Gag lever

0
56/279

Cutter-bar mountings only

0
56/283

Lifting cutter bar

0
56/284

Cutter-bar mountings only

0
56/286

Gag lever

0
56/285

With foot lever

2
56/273

Power-operated lift

0
56/267

Horizontally folding

1
56/268

Rear cut

1
56/269

Co-axial wheels

0
56/270

Cam or lever drive

0
56/266

Reversible

0
56/265

Through-wheel drive

1
56/249

Rotating cutting-reel type

141
56/251

Auxiliary cutter

10
56/253

Co-axial wheels central cut

3
56/254

Internal gear single pinion

0
56/252

Cutter in front of wheel tread

2
56/249.5

Interchangeable cutting assembly

15
56/250

Sharpening

15
56/255

Rotating-cutting-disk type

287
56/256

Vertical cut

65
56/238

Successive cuts at different heights

8
56/314

Track clearers and dividers

38
56/317

Driven

0
56/319

Foldable

5
56/320

Supplemental clearer

3
56/315

Supplemental vertical cutter

2
56/316

Reciprocating

2
56/318

With shoe-point socket

0
56/DIG.23

Dehydrating

8
56/DIG.9

Detachable implement

131
56/DIG.4

Friction drive

17
56/328.1

Fruit gatherer

282
56/331

Berry clippers

11
56/330

Berry strippers

198
56/329

Catchers

64
56/332

Pole supported

32
56/339

Fixed detaching member

13
56/340

Chute

6
56/333

Pivoted jaw

12
56/334

Chute

7
56/335

Pivoted knife

6
56/336

Chute

10
56/337

Sliding jaw

4
56/338

Sliding knife

7
56/340.1

Tree shaker

101
56/6

Gang

271
56/7

Rotating cutting reel

109
56/466

Grain adjusters

2
56/473

Longitudinally moving straightening finger

0
56/467

On deck

0
56/471

Feeders

0
56/468

Head or butt evener

0
56/470

Endless apron

0
56/469

Oscillating

0
56/472

Retarding arms

0
56/324

Grain cradles

0
56/324.5

Connections

0
56/322

Grain wheels and casters

6
56/DIG.3

Ground effect

26
56/400.01

Hand rakes

42
56/400.19

Adjustable, folding or take down

45
56/400.2

Biased pivoted head or tines

15
56/400.17

Broom type

65
56/400.18

Adjustable or expansible

22
56/400.04

Combined, convertible and attachments

69
56/400.08

With cleaner

12
56/400.1

With actuating linkage

8
56/400.09

With ground support

1
56/400.05

With cutter, scraper or spreader

18
56/400.07

Acting simultaneously with rake

17
56/400.06

Directed oppositely to rake

24
56/400.14

With ground support

21
56/400.15

Skid or runner type

10
56/400.11

With guard or material receiver

29
56/400.12

Grappling type

49
56/400.13

With ground support

4
56/400.02

Rotary or endless

14
56/400.03

Impaling type

5
56/400.21

Tines or teeth

60
56/400.16

With plural sets of tines

38
56/DIG.18

Handles

73
56/DIG.24

Harvester guards

45
56/DIG.14

Hitch

71
56/375

Horse rakes

22
56/395

Clearers

1
56/399

Fenders

0
56/400

Rake teeth and fastenings

65
56/378

Rear delivery

7
56/379

Revolving

6
56/383

Rake-tooth-engaging stop

0
56/380

Wheels supported

13
56/381

Fixed rake axis

0
56/382

Rake-tooth-engaging stop

1
56/384

Wheel supported

19
56/385

Contractible

12
56/386

Draft dumpers

0
56/387

Direct draft

1
56/388

Frictional

0
56/391

Pawl and ratchet

2
56/392

Transverse torsion rod

0
56/390

Sliding bolt or bar

0
56/389

Spur gear

0
56/394

Hand lever concentric with rake head

0
56/393

Hand lever pulled back to dump

0
56/376

Side delivery

18
56/377

Rotary

113
56/396

Wheel supported

23
56/397

With lifting means

4
56/398

Draft operated

2
56/DIG.11

Hydraulic

37
56/8

Marine

90
56/9

With conveyer

51
56/DIG.2

Methods

106
56/1

Miscellaneous

122
56/10.1

Motorized harvester

24
56/16.4R

Having driven means for handling or treating crop

172
56/16.6

Delivering to receptacle or hopper

265
56/16.5

For separating one material from another

70
56/16.4A

With crop conditioner means

26
56/16.4B

With rolling or pressing elements

42
56/16.4C

Having cooperating or mating surface textures

29
56/16.4D

With means for forming a crop into pellets or wafers

11
56/11.9

Having fluid-pressure or stored-energy motor

151
56/16.7

Having motor on ground-supported carrier

213
56/17.1

And cutter adjustable relative to ground

115
56/17.2

By adjusting ground wheel or skid relative to carrier

129
56/17.6

And drive train to reciprocating or oscillating cutter

17
56/17.3

And element guiding vegetation to cutter

15
56/17.4

And guard

105
56/17.5

And rotatable blade on motor shaft

245
56/16.9

Motor used for plural devices or functions

144
56/16.8

With dispenser of fluent material

53
56/12.7

Including cutter yieldably mounted on its drive means

546
56/12.8

Including driven air-blower unit

105
56/13.3

For discharging crop from harvester

104
56/13.4

By blower on cutter-driving shaft

79
56/12.9

For drawing vegetation to harvester

38
56/13.1

To suction head

36
56/13.2

With beater at suction head

8
56/14.7

Including motorized vehicle causing transit of harvester

143
56/14.8

With drive train to harvester powered by ground-engaging wheels

15
56/14.9

With hitch permitting movement of harvester relative to vehicle

112
56/15.6

By hitch for separating harvester from vehicle

74
56/15.5

By means for adjusting harvester laterally

106
56/15.4

By means for steering harvester

21
56/15.7

By resilient or universal-action hitch

38
56/15.8

For "floating" harvester

159
56/15.9

Hitch for pivoting harvester about horizontal axis

118
56/16.2

Longitudinally-extending axis

42
56/16.1

Tined crop-pickup rake on transverse pivot

11
56/16.3

With latchable lever means for pivoting harvester

16
56/15.1

With drive from motor for re-positioning harvester

28
56/15.2

Cutter assemblage re-positioned

130
56/15.3

With flexible drive train to repositionable harvester

23
56/13.5

Including plural operating units and drive

59
56/14.5

Cutter unit and conveyer unit

117
56/14.6

With thresher or crop-separator unit

186
56/14.3

Gatherer unit and vegetation-cutter unit

70
56/14.4

Horizontal-axis-reel gatherer

68
56/13.6

Separately-acting cutter units

264
56/13.7

For disparate cutting operations

55
56/13.8

In series arrangement

21
56/13.9

With conveyer between units

76
56/14.1

Separately-acting opposed-roller-couple units

12
56/14.2

With opposed-gatherer-couple unit

15
56/10.2R

With condition-responsive operation

291
56/10.2A

Pre-programmed or remotely controlled

70
56/10.3

Release or slip of drive in response to overload

43
56/10.4

Retraction of cutter-unit in response to obstruction

63
56/10.2C

With crop loss measuring means

23
56/10.2D

With distance measuring means

11
56/10.2F

For guiding the harvester

63
56/10.2E

For height sensing and height control

118
56/10.2J

With foreign object detection (e.g., stone, nail)

52
56/10.2B

With moisture measuring means

26
56/10.2G

With speed measuring means

46
56/10.2H

For individual harvesting unit

17
56/12.4

With drive train for imparting compound movement to finger-like elements

8
56/12.5

Rotating and orbiting elements

11
56/12.3

With means for lubricating drive train

11
56/12.1

With means for reconditioning cutter or picker

46
56/12.2

With means for using heat or exhaust from engine

8
56/10.6

With plural sources of power

17
56/10.7

For disparate functions

26
56/10.5

With randomly-operative control of motor (e.g., for starting or stopping motor)

94
56/10.8

With selective control of drive means

149
56/11.3

By brake and disengageable drive (e.g., clutch)

232
56/11.7

By clutch-assemblage

28
56/11.8

Connecting motor to cutter or transit wheels

113
56/11.4

By controlling plural drive trains

34
56/11.5

Including clutch-assemblages

16
56/11.6

By means for regulating tautness of belt drive

89
56/11.2

By means for reversing drive

53
56/11.1

By means for varying speed-ratio of drive

54
56/10.9

By valve for controlling fluid-pressure motor

38
56/12.6

With separable or vibration-damping drive train

20
56/DIG.16

Movable cutter without stationary cutter bar

1
56/208

Platform adjustments

135
56/210

Main frame

4
56/211

Traction operated

0
56/212

Vertically and longitudinally tilting

1
56/213

Simultaneous vertical adjustment

1
56/214

Vertical

3
56/215

Segment rack and pinion

0
56/216

Simultaneous

0
56/217

Simultaneous

1
56/209

Side hill

34
56/341

Raking and bundling

614
56/343

Cord-knotter type

46
56/342

Hand

2
56/344

Raking and loading

65
56/345

Endless carrier

4
56/346

Intermittent discharge

9
56/349

Stationary rake teeth

0
56/347

With movable feeder

0
56/348

Stationary rake teeth

0
56/350

Rear delivery

3
56/353

Stationary rake teeth

0
56/351

With movable feeder

4
56/352

Stationary rake teeth

0
56/354

Side delivery

1
56/357

Stationary rake teeth

0
56/355

With movable feeder

0
56/356

Stationary rake teeth

0
56/360

Stationary rake teeth

0
56/358

With movable feeder

0
56/359

Stationary rake teeth

0
56/361

Intermittent discharge

1
56/364

Lifting reels

187
56/362

Walking rake

3
56/363

Auxiliary rake

0
56/DIG.21

Raking and windrowing

33
56/DIG.7

Remote control implement

13
56/323

Seats

3
56/126

Seed gatherers or strippers

35
56/127

Fixed comb

10
56/128

Rotary beaters

12
56/129

Central swath, co-axial wheels

0
56/130

Moving comb

42
56/474

Sheaf or bundle discharging carriers

7
56/475

Automatic discharge

6
56/476

Directly tilting

3
56/480

Directly tilting

8
56/477

Endless carrier

2
56/478

Folding tines

0
56/479

Opening bottom

1
56/207

Shelled-grain catchers

1
56/401

Shockers

0
56/402

Automatic feed

0
56/419

Forwardly tilting shock

0
56/420

Automatic shock-delivery trip

0
56/421

Number

0
56/422

Feed stopped during shock delivery

0
56/423

Rearwardly opening former

0
56/403

Self-binding

0
56/408

Forwardly tilting shock

0
56/409

Automatic shock-delivery trip

0
56/407

Sheaf turned end for end

0
56/404

Vertical position

0
56/405

Automatic shock-delivery trip

0
56/406

Oscillating sheaf-delivery member

0
56/417

Sheaf turned end for end

0
56/418

Automatic shock-delivery trip

0
56/424

Shock turned end for end

0
56/410

Vertical position

0
56/416

Alternating sheaf delivery

0
56/414

Automatic shock-delivery trip

0
56/415

Alternating sheaf delivery

0
56/411

Rotary, vertical axis

0
56/412

Automatic shock-delivery trip

0
56/413

Oscillating sheaf-delivery member

0
56/428

Divided former

0
56/431

Props

0
56/429

Self-binding

0
56/425

Vertical position

0
56/427

Direct drop

0
56/426

Rotary, vertical axis

0
56/430

With compressor

1
56/500

Stalk choppers

23
56/501

Gathering by air current

0
56/504

Rotating on horizontal transverse axis

57
56/505

With transverse ledger plate

10
56/503

Rotating on vertical axis

46
56/502

With driven pickup

6
56/219

Standing-grain gatherers

10
56/220

Rotating reel, horizontal axis

52
56/227

Adjustable bats

9
56/221

Adjustable position

20
56/222

With driving means

4
56/224

Belt with adjustable tension

2
56/225

Concentric

0
56/223

Sliding angular gear

0
56/226

Supplementary bat movement

12
56/370

Tedders

115
56/371

Mower attachment

4
56/372

Rotary, transverse axis

35
56/374

Tedder forks

1
56/373

Transverse crank shaft

1
56/27.5

Tobacco

87
56/218

Tongue adjustments and supports

29
56/228

Transporting attachments

134
56/DIG.22

Underslung yieldable rotary mower

116
56/DIG.10

Uneven terrain compensation

84
56/327.1

Vegetable gatherer

167
56/327.2

Asparagus havester

15
56/DIG.5

With material distribution

22
 
 
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