With Means For Causing Movement Patents (Class 172/546)
  • Patent number: 9894823
    Abstract: Perforated rotating attraction drum of a general cylindrical shape and featuring openings, this drum being fitted for being mounted on a leaf-stripping head of the leaves of a foliage wall such as a row of vine-stock, characterized in that it features the superposition of a plurality of rings presenting an outside cylindrical surface, and of a plurality of annular openings made between two successive rings, these openings allowing the passage of a suction air flow across and towards the inside of the perforated rotating attraction drum featuring, internally, means of rigid assembly of the plurality of stacked rings and a coupling means to a motorization for its rotational drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: PELLENC (SOCIETE ANONYME)
    Inventor: Jean-Marc Gialis
  • Patent number: 3941193
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tilling apparatus characterized by a regulating drive connection between the towing tractor drive axle and the tiller shaft, the tiller tines having a modified arcuate configuration which provide a pocketed, rather than a furrowed or channeled, tilling depth profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1974
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1976
    Inventor: Paul W. Shoemaker