Patents by Inventor Bruce Shearer

Bruce Shearer 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).

  • Publication number: 20230292662
    Abstract: A draper header for harvesting agricultural crops includes at least one lean bar assembly for engaging the crops to be harvested prior to a first and a second crop pick-up reel. The first crop pick-up reel is rotatably coupled between an outboard and a center reel support arm of the draper header, and the second crop pick-up reel is rotatably coupled between the center and an outboard reel support arm of the draper header. The first and second crop pick-up reels are selectively moveable in a fore and an aft direction along the inboard, outboard, and center reel support arms for engaging the crops to be harvested. The lean bar assemblies are secured to each of the first and second crop pick-up reels at a predetermined position relative thereto and maintain the predetermined position during selective movement of the first and second crop pick-up reels in the fore and aft directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Cyrus Nigon, Nicholas Friberg, Bruce Shearer
  • Patent number: 11510367
    Abstract: Crop is carried into a feed opening of a harvester by two side drapers, two rear back sheets defining an opening between inner edges, a central feed draper and a roller with end flight portions and a central finger portion located above the feed draper. In this geometry, a bottom tangent to the flight portions has a position which is at a height below the rear edge of the side drapers. The roller axis of the feed roller is behind the rear edge of the side drapers and behind a common plane containing the back sheets. The inner guide roller of each of the first and second side drapers is located inwardly of the inner edge of the first back sheet and inwardly of an outer end of the end flight portion. A forward most tangent to the flight portions projects forward of or proud of the common back sheet plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: MACDON INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventors: Andrew Bell, Bruce Shearer
  • Publication number: 20200359564
    Abstract: Crop is carried into a feed opening of a harvester by two side drapers, two rear back sheets defining an opening between inner edges, a central feed draper and a roller with end flight portions and a central finger portion located above the feed draper. In this geometry, a bottom tangent to the flight portions has a position which is at a height below the rear edge of the side drapers. The roller axis of the feed roller is behind the rear edge of the side drapers and behind a common plane containing the back sheets. The inner guide roller of each of the first and second side drapers is located inwardly of the inner edge of the first back sheet and inwardly of an outer end of the end flight portion. A forward most tangent to the flight portions projects forward of or proud of the common back sheet plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Andrew Bell, Bruce Shearer
  • Patent number: 7103591
    Abstract: A method for data processing can include associating at least one descriptor dimension with a data item. The descriptor dimension can represent a scale between a first subject and at least a second subject. A dimension value can be associated with the descriptor dimension to quantify a relationship between the data item and the first and second subjects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Asobayire, Dilip K. Barman, Stephen E. Bello, Anne E. Bomford, Ting D. Cheng, Thomas E. Donegan, John O. F. Long, R. Bruce Shearer
  • Publication number: 20040107187
    Abstract: A method for data processing can include associating at least one descriptor dimension with a data item. The descriptor dimension can represent a scale between a first subject and at least a second subject. A dimension value can be associated with the descriptor dimension to quantify a relationship between the data item and the first and second subjects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2002
    Publication date: June 3, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Asobayire, Dilip K. Barman, Stephen E. Bello, Anne B. Bomford, Ting D. Cheng, Thomas E. Donegan, John O.F. Long, R. Bruce Shearer