Patents by Inventor Wayde Altendorf

Wayde Altendorf 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: 20160066501
    Abstract: A potato harvester chain conveyor has a plurality of rods spanning between support portions providing spacing to retain potatoes by allow soil to drop through. The spacing may be field modified by adding resilient split sleeves on the rods. The invention includes the sleeves, method of attachment, methods of removal, and the sleeves in combination with the conveyor and/or the harvester with the conveyor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Wayde ALTENDORF, Dale M. COLLETTE
  • Patent number: 8596208
    Abstract: A pick assembly for delivering a seed product from a supply thereof to a delivery location and having a pick wheel and at least a first pick arm assembly on the pick wheel with a first cantilever-mounted pick. The pick: a) penetrates a seed product from a supply and releases the seed product to a delivery location as an incident of the pick wheel turning. The first pick has a body with an exposed surface that tapers over at least a portion of the length of the body. At least one discrete raised holding element is on the exposed surface of the body and has an axial width bounded by axially spaced edges. The one holding element at least one of: a) extends through less than fully around a lengthwise axis of the first pick body; and b) has gaps at both axially spaced edges, each extending along the lengthwise axis a distance greater than the axial width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Crary Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Wayde Altendorf, Michael Nilson
  • Publication number: 20120204774
    Abstract: A pick assembly for delivering a seed product from a supply thereof to a delivery location and having a pick wheel and at least a first pick arm assembly on the pick wheel with a first cantilever-mounted pick. The pick: a) penetrates a seed product from a supply and releases the seed product to a delivery location as an incident of the pick wheel turning. The first pick has a body with an exposed surface that tapers over at least a portion of the length of the body. At least one discrete raised holding element is on the exposed surface of the body and has an axial width bounded by axially spaced edges. The one holding element at least one of: a) extends through less than fully around a lengthwise axis of the first pick body; and b) has gaps at both axially spaced edges, each extending along the lengthwise axis a distance greater than the axial width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Inventors: Wayde Altendorf, Michael Nilson