Patents by Inventor Greg Haukaas

Greg Haukaas 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).

  • Patent number: 8992156
    Abstract: A conveyor is arranged to be mounted underneath a hopper bottom highway transportation truck which has two longitudinally spaced dump hoppers each with a bottom discharge opening to carry the discharged material to the side of the trailer from each of the hoppers in turn. The conveyor is thus carried between the bottom discharge openings so that it can be raised up between them during transport. From the mounting point at one side between the openings the conveyor is lowered so that its loading end is lowered and then the conveyor pivots to one side or the other so that its loading end is underneath the selected bottom discharge opening. The conveyor runs in a direction so that it lifts the material from the selected discharge opening upwardly to the mounting point at the one side for discharge to the side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Haukaas Manufacturing Limited
    Inventors: Greg Haukaas, Beric Duane Haukaas, Vincent Colistro
  • Publication number: 20140147233
    Abstract: A grapple is arranged for stacking cylindrical bales, where a bottom row or rows has the axis vertical and a top row has the axis horizontal, and includes a base frame for attachment to front end loader and a grapple frame mounted on the base frame for rotation about a horizontal axis of the base frame. The grapple frame includes two fixed lower jaws side by side and two upper pivotal jaws. The lower jaws are arranged for engaging underneath a bale lying on the ground with its axis horizontal with the lower jaw being shorter in the forward direction than the second jaw so that the lower jaw can approach and engage the bale substantially without pushing underneath the bale and the upper pivotal jaws extend beyond the axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Inventors: Greg Haukaas, Vince Colistro
  • Publication number: 20140014463
    Abstract: A conveyor is arranged to be mounted underneath a hopper bottom highway transportation truck which has two longitudinally spaced dump hoppers each with a bottom discharge opening to carry the discharged material to the side of the trailer from each of the hoppers in turn. The conveyor is thus carried between the bottom discharge openings so that it can be raised up between them during transport. From the mounting point at one side between the openings the conveyor is lowered so that its loading end is lowered and then the conveyor pivots to one side or the other so that its loading end is underneath the selected bottom discharge opening. The conveyor runs in a direction so that it lifts the material from the selected discharge opening upwardly to the mounting point at the one side for discharge to the side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Greg Haukaas, Beric Duane Haukaas, Vincent Colistro
  • Patent number: 6945182
    Abstract: A midrow levelling attachment for a seeder includes a set of leveller gangs each of which is mounted on a respective one of the packer wheel gangs of the seeder by a pair of mounting members one at each end of the common shaft of the leveller gang. The levelling roller gang is arranged such that each roller has the peripheral surface thereof located at a position aligned with a location on the ground between a respective pair of the shanks of the seeder and each roller is located rearwardly of the respective pair of shanks and in front of the packer wheels for engaging the ground between the furrows formed by the furrow forming element of the respective pair of shanks. The peripheral surface of each levelling roller is shaped with an apex and two inclined sides such that as the peripheral surface rolls over the ground between the furrows it tends to push the soil back into the furrows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Haukaas Manufacturing Limited
    Inventors: Duane Haukaas, Greg Haukaas
  • Publication number: 20030057055
    Abstract: A transport conveyor particularly for grain in piles on the ground has a trailer mounted on ground wheels for towing by a tractor in a direction of travel. The trailer can be driven forward while the tractor remains stationary either by a hydraulic cylinder on an extendible hitch or by a drive at the ground wheels which moves the trailer while the hitch and the tractor remain stationary. An auger tube is carried on the trailer by a support post which allows the auger tube to swivel about a vertical axis from a longitudinally extending transport position to an operating position in which the tube extends generally transversely of the direction of travel with a feed end of the tube projecting outwardly beyond one side of the trailer, with a discharge end projecting outwardly beyond the opposite side of the vehicle and with the discharge end raised for discharge into a transport truck on that side. The tube can also pivot about a horizontal axis at the post allowing the feed end to float up and down.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Inventors: Duane Haukaas, Greg Haukaas
  • Publication number: 20020185357
    Abstract: A transport conveyor particularly for grain in piles on the ground has a trailer mounted on ground wheels for towing by a tractor in a direction of travel. An auger tube is carried on the trailer by a support post which allows the auger tube to swivel about a vertical axis from a longitudinally extending transport position to an operating position in which the tube extends generally transversely of the direction of travel with a feed end of the tube projecting outwardly beyond one side of the trailer, with a discharge end projecting outwardly beyond the opposite side of the vehicle and with the discharge end raised for discharge into a transport truck on that side. The tube can also pivot about a horizontal axis at the post allowing the feed end to float up and down. At the feed end is provided a pick-up or scoop shaped hopper for picking up grain from a grain pile on the ground as the trailer is pulled forwardly. The pick-up hopper can be removed and replaced by a conventional hopper for other uses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2001
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Applicant: Greg Haukaas & Rhonda Haukaas
    Inventors: Duane Haukaas, Greg Haukaas