Patents by Inventor Barry B. Barsi
Barry B. Barsi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10058021Abstract: An agricultural seeding machine includes a metering system and a damper arrangement. The metering system for the seeding machine includes selectively powered metering sections operable to individually allow or restrict seed dispensation. The damper arrangement is included so that pneumatic conveying of the particulate within the machine is consistently maintained when particulate flow is varied between the metering sections.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2017Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Morris Industries Ltd.Inventors: Barry B. Barsi, Jeffrey J. Gordon, John A. Lesanko, Cory W. K. Ochitwa
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Publication number: 20170156259Abstract: A metering system for a seeding machine is provided. The metering system includes selectively powered metering sections operable to individually allow or restrict seed dispensation. A damper arrangement is also provided so that pneumatic conveying of the particulate within the machine is consistently maintained when particulate flow is varied between the metering sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2017Publication date: June 8, 2017Applicant: Morris Industries Ltd.Inventors: Barry B. Barsi, Jeffrey J. Gordon, John A. Lesanko, Cory W.K. Ochitwa
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Patent number: 9578801Abstract: A metering system for a seeding machine is provided. The metering system includes selectively powered metering sections operable to individually allow or restrict seed dispensation. A damper arrangement is also provided so that pneumatic conveying of the particulate within the machine is consistently maintained when particulate flow is varied between the metering sections.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2014Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: Morris Industries Ltd.Inventors: Barry B. Barsi, Jeffrey J. Gordon, John A. Lesanko, Cory W. K. Ochitwa
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Patent number: 9497899Abstract: An agricultural particulate delivery system includes a tank operable to contain particulate, a metering structure including a metering element operable to regulate flow of particulate from the tank, and a collector assembly configured to receive particulate from the metering structure. The collector assembly directs particulate into a particulate-transporting line configured to deliver particulate toward an implement. The system also includes a sensor located between the metering element and the particulate-transporting line and that is configured to detect particulate flow from the metering element to the particulate-transporting line.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2014Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Morris Industries Ltd.Inventors: Conrad A. Glowa, John A. Lesanko, Barry B. Barsi, Jeffrey J. Gordon
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Publication number: 20150181800Abstract: An agricultural particulate delivery system includes a tank operable to contain particulate, a metering structure including a metering element operable to regulate flow of particulate from the tank, and a collector assembly configured to receive particulate from the metering structure. The collector assembly directs particulate into a particulate-transporting line configured to deliver particulate toward an implement. The system also includes a sensor located between the metering element and the particulate-transporting line and that is configured to detect particulate flow from the metering element to the particulate-transporting line.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2014Publication date: July 2, 2015Applicant: MORRIS INDUSTRIES LTD.Inventors: Conrad A. Glowa, John A. Lesanko, Barry B. Barsi, Jeffrey J. Gordon
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Publication number: 20150071745Abstract: A metering system for a seeding machine is provided. The metering system includes selectively powered metering sections operable to individually allow or restrict seed dispensation. A damper arrangement is also provided so that pneumatic conveying of the particulate within the machine is consistently maintained when particulate flow is varied between the metering sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Applicant: Morris Industries Ltd.Inventors: Barry B. Barsi, Jeffrey J. Gordon, John A. Lesanko, Cory W.K. Ochitwa
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Patent number: 8915200Abstract: A metering system for a seeding machine is provided. The metering system includes selectively powered metering sections operable to individually allow or restrict seed dispensation. A damper arrangement is also provided so that pneumatic conveying of the particulate within the machine is consistently maintained when particulate flow is varied between the metering sections.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2012Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Morris Industries Ltd.Inventors: Barry B. Barsi, Jeffrey J. Gordon, John A. Lesanko, Cory W. K. Ochitwa
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Publication number: 20120211508Abstract: A metering system for a seeding machine is provided. The metering system includes selectively powered metering sections operable to individually allow or restrict seed dispensation. A damper arrangement is also provided so that pneumatic conveying of the particulate within the machine is consistently maintained when particulate flow is varied between the metering sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2012Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: MORRIS INDUSTRIES LTD.Inventors: Barry B. Barsi, Jeffrey J. Gordon, John A. Lesanko, Cory W. K. Ochitwa
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Patent number: 7617782Abstract: A double shoot seed and fertilizer placement unit has a leading shank that cuts a fertilizer trench in the soil, a seed shovel immediately behind but above the lower extremity of the shank to cut one or more seed shelves in the soil above and outboard of the fertilizer trench, a boot behind the shovel that places seeds on the shelf and then drops fertilizer into the fertilizer trench between and below the seeds, and a fertilizer guide member that rides in the fertilizer trench below the fertilizer outlet to maintain the integrity of the trench in preparation for the fertilizer and helps guide the fertilizer down to the bottom of the trench as it emanates from the boot.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2008Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignee: Morris Industries Ltd.Inventors: Clint W. Sheppard, John A. Lesanko, Barry B. Barsi
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Patent number: 6834599Abstract: An improved collector assembly comprises a generally hollow body mounted below a product supply tank for receiving plural streams of materials metered from the tank. Individual upright passages through the body corresponding in number to the metered streams from the tank receive the gravitating product streams and direct each stream into either or both of an upper loading zone and a lower loading zone in the passage. A diverter valve associated with each upper loading zone can be set to close off the upper loading zone entirely while opening only the lower zone or closing off the lower loading zone while opening only the upper loading zone. Thus, air streams passing transversely through the upper and lower loading zones respectively can be supplied with variable amounts of metered product, depending upon the position of the diverter valve within each passage.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2003Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Assignee: Morris Industries Ltd.Inventors: Jason M. Fuessel, Kevin A. Anderson, Cory W. K. Ochitwa, Barry B. Barsi, Lawrence S. Grodecki
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Publication number: 20040250742Abstract: An improved collector assembly comprises a generally hollow body mounted below a product supply tank for receiving plural streams of materials metered from the tank. Individual upright passages through the body corresponding in number to the metered streams from the tank receive the gravitating product streams and direct each stream into either or both of an upper loading zone and a lower loading zone in the passage. A diverter valve associated with each upper loading zone can be set to close off the upper loading zone entirely while opening only the lower zone or closing off the lower loading zone while opening only the upper loading zone. Thus, air streams passing transversely through the upper and lower loading zones respectively can be supplied with variable amounts of metered product, depending upon the position of the diverter valve within each passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Jason M. Fuessel, Kevin A. Anderson, Cory W. K. Ochitwa, Barry B. Barsi, Lawrence S. Grodecki
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Patent number: 5601209Abstract: The seed metering method and apparatus utilizes a bank of individual metering discs within a pressurized singulating chamber wherein the seed cups around the peripheral edge of each disc are communicated with an air exhaust port through internal passages in the discs, thus, causing the seeds to cling to the seed cups as the discs rotate upwardly through the collection of seeds from the pressurized tank. As the seeds reach the far side of their circular path of travel on the discs, the access of the seed cups to the exhaust ports is terminated, allowing the seeds to release from the discs and drop into strategically located venturies associated with powerful conveying air streams. The venturies have the effect of sucking the released seeds instantly into the air streams so that the regular seed spacing established by the metering discs is maintained as the seeds enter the air transferring portion of the system.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1995Date of Patent: February 11, 1997Assignee: Morris Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Barry B. Barsi, Lawrence S. J. Grodecki
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Patent number: 4717289Abstract: The farm implement for distributing particles such as seeds or granular fertilizers has an apparatus for splitting a single particle-entraining air stream into a plurality of individual streams containing uniform and randomly divided quantities of particles. The apparatus has a horizontally disposed corrugated pipe in downstream communication with the conduit for providing a uniform flow of particles to a horizontally disposed, tubular, stream splitting distribution body. The distribution body has a transition section that progressively and symmetrically changes in a downstream direction from a circular configuration toward a generally flat, rectangular configuration, a generally flat transfer section that leads from the transition section and spreads symmetrically laterally outwardly in a downstream direction, and a single layer of generally horizontally disposed outlet tubes at the downstream end of the transfer section.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 1987Date of Patent: January 5, 1988Assignee: Morris Rod Weeder Company, Ltd.Inventors: Stanley Popowich, Barry B. Barsi, James W. Henry