Patents by Inventor Kenneth J. Knels

Kenneth J. Knels 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: 4583598
    Abstract: The row marker for farm planters has a horizontal base bar and a vertical post. A main arm and brace arm are pivotally mounted to the base bar. A marker bar is pivotally mounted between the outer ends of the main and brace arms, with the pivot mounting of the marker bar being intermediate its ends so as to provide a stub lever marker bar section. A diversion arm extends between the main and brace arms and has one end mounted for pivotal and longitudinally floating movement at the upper end of the post, and the other end pivotally mounted to the stub lever marker bar section. Powered means swings the main arm upwardly and effects an overhead folding of the marker bar. The floating pivot of the diversion arm permits variation in the horizontal projection of the main arm and marker bar in response to the level of land.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1986
    Inventor: Kenneth J. Knels
  • Patent number: 4537549
    Abstract: The bale carrier is of elongated character for three-point hitch mounting on a tractor. It is a double bale carrier and comprises a unitary elongated mainframe having a rectangular perimeter the longer sides of which are formed by a lower horizontal base bar and an upper header bar and shorter sides of which are formed by end plates lying perpendicularly to the base and header bars. An interior frame structure consists essentially of two spaced apart interior plates and X braces in cooperative relationship between the interior plates and end plates. Three-point means for hitch mounting is provided. Carried on the mainframe are two pairs of bale-supporting teeth pivotally mounted underneath the bas bar and extending perpendicularly outward. Each tooth preferably extends outward from a base bar location proximate to a plate of the mainframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1985
    Inventor: Kenneth J. Knels