Abstract: This invention relates to a farm machine having a device (2) for picking up hay on the ground and a device (3) for moving the hay laterally and turning it over. The device (3) for moving and turning over the hay includes a flexible belt (21) equipped with drivers (22) and oriented crosswise to the flow of the hay. An at least approximately flat guide plate (23) extends from the pickup device (2) to the drivers (22). The machine according to the invention makes it possible to move and turn over windrows of hay or other plants that are on the ground.

Abstract: A hay spreader having at least one drum (1, 2, 3) provided with a tapered flange (17) with flexible segments (18) intended for movement of products such as hay that are on the ground. The ends of the flexible segments (18) which are connected to the tapered flange (17) of each drum (1, 2, 3) are at least partly covered by panels (21). This invention makes it possible to improve the fastening of the flexible segments (18) to the drums (1, 2, 3).

Abstract: A device to facilitate locomotion of a person moving by foot on the ground and adapted to be used in shoes worn by the person, wherein each shoe has a forward portion and a rearward portion, includes a first storage device for storing a certain amount of energy when one of the portions impacts with the ground, and a second storage device which communicates with the first storage means for receiving at least a portion of the energy stored in the first storage device, and for releasing at least a portion of the energy stored in the second storage device as the other portion is about to leave the ground, so as to aid the leaving motion.

Abstract: A haymaking machine for the tedding and windrowing of fodder comprises a pair of rake wheels driven in rotation, with working tool-carrier arms mounted pivotally in support bearings thereon and having at their ends facing the rotation axis of the corresponding rake wheel, a control crank that has a roller that moves in a guide cam so as to cause the working tools to pivot over a portion of their path of revolution, upward and in the direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the corresponding rake wheel during windrowing. The control cranks are connected with the working tool-carrier arms by means of an articulation, the angle formed between the geometric axes of the control cranks and the geometric axes of the working tool-carrier arms, as seen from above, varying when the carrier arms are transposed from the windrowing position into the tedding position and vice versa.

Abstract: A hay-making machine for windrowing characterized in that the trajectories described by the outer working tools of the rake wheels overlap between the axes of rotation of the said rake wheels, the outer working tools of one rake wheel passing above the outer working tools of the other rake wheel in the zone of overlap of the said trajectories, and in that - seen perpendicularly of the axis of rotation - the longitudinal axis of the tool-carrier arms crosses the axes of rotation of the rake wheels at two points which are situated at substantially equal distances above the ground.

Abstract: The disclosure is of an agricultural hay-making machine for both tedding and windrowing, comprising at least two rotors, means mounting said rotors on said machine for rotation, each rotor comprising tool-carrier arms articulatedly connected to cranks which cranks are articulatedly connected between an annular support and push-rods, the push-rods being articulatedly connected to a hub for transposition of the annular support and the tool-carrier arms between two positions of which one is a low swathing position and the other is a higher tedding position.