Tool Driven About Diagonal Axis Patents (Class 172/124)
  • Patent number: 9719218
    Abstract: A conveyor system for a cold planer is disclosed. The conveyor system may include a first conveyor, and a second conveyor configured to convey a milled material from the first conveyor to a discharge location. The second conveyor may include a first conveyor section, a second conveyor section, and a pivoted connection between the first conveyor section and the second conveyor section. The pivoted connection may provide movement of the second conveyor section relative to the first conveyor section during an operating state of the cold planer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.
    Inventors: AJ Lee, Sean Laclef
  • Patent number: 5829537
    Abstract: A clay surface scarifier includes a portable frame with a first axle and a second axle rotationally connected thereto. At least one scarifying blade, having a cutting edge orthogonal to the first axis, is attached to the first axle and rotatable therewith about the first axis. At least one scarifying blade, having a cutting edge orthogonal to the second axis, is attached to the second axle and rotatable therewith about the second axis. The axes of rotation of the first and second axles are intersecting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Welch Tennis Courts, Inc.
    Inventor: James Vernon Houghtaling
  • Patent number: 5505268
    Abstract: An implement for preparing a field includes a ground engaging device that allows the implement to be pushed or pulled on the field. The ground engaging device includes a reversible roller with projections joined to an outer surface thereof to engage the ground. The projections do not extend along the complete length of the roller but rather a portion thereof thereby reducing the power necessary to rotate the roller. The implement includes reversible guards for keeping the disturbed ground in front of the roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1996
    Assignee: Glenmac, Inc.
    Inventors: Marion E. McPherson, Michael G. McPherson, Kenneth L. Innocent, Gary A. Parkos, Roger D. Noska
  • Patent number: 5097908
    Abstract: The farm machine 1 for working the soil comprises tools 21 each of which consists of a concave disk 47 provided with a plurality of spades 48 at its periphery. The concavity of the concave disk 47 is directed toward the forward end 12 of the rotor 16, considering the work direction 3 of the farm machine 1. A lateral stabilizing element 41 comprising at least one share 43 extends behind the rearward lateral end 11 of the frame 9 of said farm machine 1. The farm machine 1 also comprises support wheels 36, 38, one 36 of which extends in front of the forward lateral end 12 of said frame 9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Assignee: Kuhn, S.A.
    Inventor: Michel Kirch
  • Patent number: 5082063
    Abstract: The mixing head comprises a pair of opposed, spaced apart, generally vertical discs that are generally aligned with the direction of travel, although they are slightly angled so as to be wider apart at their front ends than at their rear ends. The discs are rotatably mounted to a free floating frame. Each disc has a plurality of radially extending, elongated, broad, rigid, chisel-like teeth which extend from the disc central portion out beyond its circumferential rim. The discs are driven to rotate against the direction of travel. When rotating, the disc and teeth formations operate to cut down into the coil and excavate it in portions carried by the teeth. The portions are moved inwardly by the angled formations and then thrown and dropped to the rear. The furrow formed has a flat-topped ridge overtopped with a loose mix of excavated soil and humus. The furrow is a good growing site for implanted seedlings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1992
    Assignee: Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada as represented by the Minister of Forestry
    Inventor: Derek Sidders
  • Patent number: 5078216
    Abstract: A combination tillage apparatus for towing behind a tractor comprises an extended frame having a trunk member oriented along the direction of travel of the apparatus and at least one pair of parallel and spaced apart branch members oriented perpendicularly to the trunk member. Each one of a pluralilty of implements is mounted in a mounting mechanism and a stabilizing mechanism which provide independent angular, translational, and vertical adjustment of each of the implements relative to the frame. A first modified embodiment of the combination tillage apparatus allows angular adjustment of the implement relative to the stabilizing mechanism independently from the angular adjustment of the stabilizing mechanism relative to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1992
    Inventor: Virgil Dick
  • Patent number: 5070946
    Abstract: A stone burying attachment for a finish grading landscape machine is disclosed wherein the attachment is optionally mounted to the frame of the machine to create a furrow immediately forwardly of the discharge side of the machine to permit a burying of stones and other unwanted debris collected by the landscape machine during operation thereof. The stone burying attachment is positionally adjustable between operative and inoperative positions to permit a selective engagement thereof at the discretion of the operator. The attachment includes a disc positioned angularly with respect to the direction of travel and also positionable at varying heights in the operative position for selectively varying the desired depth of the furrow being formed thereby. A breakaway feature protects the attachment if the disc engages an immovable object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1991
    Assignee: ATI Corporation
    Inventors: John L. Herr, John W. Herr
  • Patent number: 5046346
    Abstract: The invention relates to an agricultural machine for soil-cultivation, comprising, in the direction (F) of travel of the machine, a first row of cutting wheels arranged at right-angles to the said direction of travel and having substantially horizontal axes, in front of which is arranged a cylindrical roller with the aid of which weeds and/or the remains of past cultivation, such as stalks, stubble, and the like may be broken up. A subsequent row of ripping elements, with blades preferably running out to a point, rips up and loosens the soil, without ploughing it in, and is associated with plough-mould-boards which partially plough in the loosened soil. A transverse row of rotor-tools, with substantially horizontal axes, acts as a harrow and is used for final ploughing through 180.degree. and for crumbling the soil. The cutting wheels and the rotor-tools are arranged with their axes at an angle to the perpendiculars to the direction of travel (F) of the machines, preferably at an angle of between 5.degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1991
    Inventor: Vittorio Pegoraro
  • Patent number: 4987959
    Abstract: The farm machine 1 for working the soil comprises tools 21 each of which consists of a concave disk 47 provided with a plurality of spades 48 at its periphery. The concavity of the concave disk 47 is directed toward the forward end 12 of the rotor 16, considering the work direction 3 of the farm machine 1. A lateral stabilizing element 41 comprising at least one share 43 extends behind the rearward lateral end 11 of the frame 9 of said farm machine 1. The farm machine 1 also comprises support wheels 36, 38, one 36 of which extends in front of the forward lateral end 12 of said frame 9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1991
    Assignee: Kuhn, S.A.
    Inventor: Michel Kirch
  • Patent number: 4838359
    Abstract: The farm machine includes a frame 9, a hitching structure 4, a rotor 16 supported by the frame 9, and spades 21 mounted on the rotor 16. The active parts of the spades 21 are curved. The curvature of all of the spades 21 is directed in the same direction and toward the forward end of the rotor 16, considering the work direction 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignee: Kuhn S. A.
    Inventor: Michel Kirch
  • Patent number: 4564073
    Abstract: An improvement of a plow or a harrow of the type in which a plurality of saucer-like disks carried by a rotary shaft inclined at an angle with respect to the direction of travel of a tractor are forced to rotate, thereby plowing uncultivated farm land. The plurality of disks or disk gang is supported by a parallel linkage system and the angle of the disk gang with respect to the direction of travel of the tractor can be freely selected so that, in accordance with the skill of an operator and soil condition which will be encountered, either the horizontal travel or the inclined travel may be selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1986
    Assignee: Star Farm Machinery Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Ide, Masatoshi Yamada, Katsusuke Sasaki
  • Patent number: 4353421
    Abstract: A soil preparing device for preparing forest soil to a planting bed. The device comprises a frame intended to be mounted on a forest tractor, a support arm mounted on the frame pivotally around a horizontal link, and a preparing element supported by a slide mounted vertically movably on said support arm. The slide is fastened to a hydraulic cylinder supported by said support arm for continuously adjusting the vertical position of said slide and, accordingly, of the position of the preparing element with respect to the ground during the preparation. A deviation of the support arm upwardly or downwardly from a neutral position activates said hydraulic cylinder of the slide to displace the preparing element upward and downward, respectively, due to variations in the ground level and obstacles on the ground. The preparing element can therefore be displaced clear of any unevennesses in the ground without substantially deviating from its working angle in relation to the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1982
    Assignee: G. A. Serlachius Oy
    Inventor: Lasse Lahti
  • Patent number: 4284146
    Abstract: A soil working machine pivotably mounts at least one rotor having serrated working elements. The rotor is pivotally connected at each end to a frame beam by a pin which can be inserted into either one of two holes located one above the other. The hole chosen governs the resistance to upward pivoting of the rotor. The machine can be hitched to a tractor either with the frame beam substantially transverse of the intended direction of operative travel, or with the frame beam inclined to this direction. Each rotor has end plates that mount forward blades and the outer plate supports a gear transmission to the rear of the respective blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1981
    Inventor: Cornelis van der Lely