With Apparatus Cleaner In Nonrecovery Zone Of Unearthing Unit Patents (Class 171/12)
  • Patent number: 11330763
    Abstract: A harvesting machine designed to push ends of nut rows in after sweeping may include a bottomless basket removably attached to a ridable device, and a linear actuator operatively attached to the bottomless basket. The basket may include a back wall; a first side wall and a second side wall attached to and extending from the back wall at an angle such that first ends of each side wall attached to the back wall are closer together than second ends of each side wall positioned distal from the back wall; and a cross support attached to and extending between the second ends of the side walls. Each of the back wall and the side walls may have slotted sides and skid shoes attached to a bottom surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Inventor: Arthur Frank den Dulk
  • Patent number: 10974280
    Abstract: A rock separator for separating rocks from soil, where the rock separator includes a mounting plate a plurality of elongate tines secured to the mounting plate, where the plurality of elongate tines define a curved shape across the mounting plate, a plurality of support members laterally joining the plurality of elongate tines and an attachment bracket on the mounting plate for releasably mounting to a machine. The mounting plate has a first major surface and a second major surface opposite the first major surface. The attachment bracket is attached directly to the mounting plate, where the plurality of elongate tines do not move relative the attachment bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Inventor: Theodore Leonard Kasper
  • Patent number: 8534371
    Abstract: A front end loader attachment for picking and sorting objects, including picking rocks and sorting them from soil. An embodiment of the attachment is a device comprising a rotatable drum having a longitudinal axis, a mount for reversibly mounting the attachment to the front end loader, and a rotator assembly, with the drum comprising a base and an opposing opening defined by sidewalls connected to the base, wherein the sidewalls comprises a plurality of openings and the rotator assembly is operable to rotate the drum about the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Inventor: Kent Roessler
  • Patent number: 6033305
    Abstract: A produce harvesting apparatus, such as for harvesting tomatoes, which includes apparatus for harvesting produce, such as tomatoes, which includes an enclosed vehicle and a first conveyor belt extending forward of the vehicle for moving produce and associated vines into the enclosed vehicle. The apparatus further includes a ventilation system for drawing air from within the enclosed vehicle and expelling that air through an outlet that is disposed in alignment with the first conveyer belt to direct exhaust air from the enclosed vehicle toward the produce on the first conveyor belt whereby some dirt is dislodged from the produce and vines disposed on the first conveyor belt. The apparatus may have the outlet disposed to direct a stream of air from the enclosed vehicle in a direction that is aligned with the axis of the first conveyor belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignees: Thomas Perez, Frank C. Tenente
    Inventors: Thomas Perez, Frank C. Tenente, John A. Paoluccio
  • Patent number: 4167975
    Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning beaches including a conveyor that will pick up foreign objects from a beach, elevate such objects together with accumulated sand, a tumbler which receives the material and rotates to separate the material from sand, a brush to unclog openings in the tumbler, and a conveyor that will move the large objects to a desired storage location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1979
    Inventor: Harley D. Fahrenholz