Abstract: A cultivating machine has a row of soil working members that are driven to rotate about upwardly extending axes. Each member includes an elongated support and the opposite ends of the support each have downwardly extending arms with tine holders in which tines are secured. Each arm is hollow and receives the upper end of a holder that, in turn, receives a tine fastening portion. The arms serve to position the active portions of the tines substantially below their support and the support is thus positioned above ground debris and obstructions.

Abstract: A soil cultivating machine has side-by-side working members mounted on upwardly extending shafts that extend slightly forward with respect to the direction of travel. Each working member includes radial arms and at the outer end of each arm a tool, such as a disc or group of tines, is journalled for free rotation about a corresponding axis of rotation that extends at an angle with respect to the axis of rotation of the working member. During operation, the tools have portions that contact the ground and cut across the soil while rotating about the tools' axes of rotation and that of the working member. Such movements assist to propel the machine forwardly.

Abstract: This invention relates to harrows, such harrows being of the kind comprising a frame portion that is movable over the ground and that is provided with a plurality of soil working members or rotors arranged to turn about corresponding upwardly extending axes, the frame portion being sustained from the ground during the use of the harrow by a rotary supporting member.

Abstract: A cultivating implement has side-by-side soil working members journalled in a hollow frame portion. Each member includes a support with hub that is connected to the lower end of a corresponding shaft. The shafts of the soil working members have meshed pinions on their upper ends that are housed in an upper chamber of the frame portion. The support and hub are housed substantially in their entireties within the frame portion and the lower side of each hub has apertured tags with pins that comprise quick release fastenings for downwardly extending tines.

Abstract: A rotary harrow has a ground engaging supporting member mounted in front of soil working members. The supporting member can be an elongated cylinder that is rotatable or a non rotatable generally cylindrical member that has its largest cross section dimension extending generally parallel to the normal direction of travel. The supporting member can be secured to a frame portion with arms that hold the member close to the soil working member connections with the frame portion. The supporting member can be pivoted or moved within limits responsive to ground irregularities and affords protection to tine connections and associated parts from stones and the like due to its close proximity to these elements.

Abstract: A soil cultivating machine has a frame beam with a forward supporting member and a rear supporting member. The frame beam and the supporting members are all elongated and extend transverse to the direction of travel. The opposite lateral ends of one supporting member are linked to the corresponding ends of the other member by curved coupling members and both supporting members are movable about substantially vertical axes in directions transverse to the normal direction of travel of the machine. Tined cultivating members are mounted on each of the supporting and coupling members for free rotation about upwardly extending axes.

Abstract: A cultivator has soil working members on upwardly extending shafts that are driven by a transmission from the p.t.o. of a prime mover. The transmission includes a transmission shaft that drives an extension of one of the upwardly extending shafts via a speed change gear mechanism of exchangeable pinions. The pinions are located at the top of the mechanism for easy and quick access and the shaft extension is positioned in front of the transmisson shaft. The soil working members are driven through spur toothed pinions in mesh with one another and housed in a hollow frame portion of the cultivator.

Abstract: A rotary harrow has soil-working members that are protected and, to some extent, supported from the ground by an elongated transverse beam that is pivoted to the front of the frame. The beam is spring biased to an operative location adjacent the soil-working member connections and vertically adjustable with respect to those members. The beam is rounded off at its lower surfaces to level the ground and ride along the ground. If debris becomes lodged between the beam and soil-working members, the beam can pivot forwardly against spring opposition to release the debris. The pivot axis for the beam is substantially directly above the beam itself.

Abstract: A cultivator or harrow has an elongated frame and a row of rotatable soil working members pivoted to the frame for independent displacement when an obstacle is contacted. Each soil working member can be tined support having an upwardly extending shaft drivenly connected to a common drive shaft or gear train. Pivotable connections between the frame and the upwardly extending shafts permit deflective movements of each member as a unit with respect to a hollow beam of the frame. The connections can be housings and/or spring biased tie parts with bearings or bracket-support pivot connections or cranks that enable the soil working members to move about at least one axis relative to the frame beam. Also, the upwardly extending shafts can be connected to the driving means by universal joints or resilient couplings. Each soil working member is biased by springs or normally assumes a central equilibrium position.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a box-shaped space-enclosing prefabricated building section having dimensions compatible with and sized for being transported on highways by transport vehicle.

Abstract: A system for conveying molded bricks known as briquettes from a press to a bed plate wherein the briquettes are each conveyed by a plurality of spaced parallel belts to above a conveyor which carries the bed plates under the briquettes supported by the conveyor belts. An inclined substantially coplanar conveyance track which includes elongated rollers has its after portion periodically raised whereby the rollers located in the after portion penetrate upwardly between the belts carrying the briquettes thus lifting the briquettes from the belt. A removal mechanism pushes the briquettes down the rollers of the conveyance track onto a removal plate which pivots with the conveyance track and extends therefrom at a slight incline, the briquettes being received by the main conveyor carrying the bed plates whereby the briquettes are pushed over the conveyance track and onto the bed plate.

Abstract: A cultivator or rotary harrow has rotatable soil working members with tines that are driven to rotate about upwardly extending axes. Each tine has a fastening portion that is secured to a support, and a lower soil working portion. In one embodiment, the center lines of the two portions substantially coincide. Alternatively, the lower part of the soil working portion can be an offset straight part that extends outwardly or the lower part can be curved outwardly with respect to the remainder of the soil working portion. The opposite sides of the lower part of the soil working portion gradually flattens and broadens towards the lowermost tip.

Abstract: This invention relates to turbines wherein fluid pressure temperature energy is released, via its passage from a high-speed nozzle delivery mounted externally and tangentially, to closely-spaced together circular profiled sheet metal, or ceramic, plates, preferably plate members that have concave and convex surfaces, at least in part, which form high surface area bodies of revolution. An assembly of disc members form the turbine rotor within which the surface adhesion effect of the traversing fluid imparts rotation to the rotor before it is finally expelled through an exhaust duct formed by centrally disposed exits in the assembly. A spiral-like fence baffle on the rear face of the plates tie adjoining surfaces together and provide expanding fluid flow channels between adjacent plates.

Abstract: A soil-cultivating machine has an elongated frame that extends horizontally and transverse to the direction of travel. A row of adjacent soil-working members are mounted on corresponding upwardly extending shafts which are geared to a common drive shaft and the members are driven in relative opposite directions to work a broad path of soil. Alternate soil-working members are slideable along beams of the frame so that debris does not jam the drive connections. The drive to the soil-working members includes an imput shaft to a gear box, which can comprise a reduction gear, and an elongated drive shaft that extends parallel to the frame and along which the slideable members are displaceable. The corresponding gears to the working members includes a pinion transmission on the drive shaft which is slideable within limits defined by an elongated key arrangement. Compression springs bias each slideable working member to a normal central position.

Abstract: A rotary harrow or cultivator has a first frame portion linked to a second frame portion. The second frame portion supports rotary soil working members and a roller is adjustably connected to the rear of the second frame portion to govern the working depths of the soil working members. The first frame portion has forward coupling means for connection to a three-point lift at the rear of a tractor. The first and second frame portions are linked to one another with a parallelogram linkage and movable relative to one another during travel. Supporting ground wheels are connected to the first portion via arms and bear on the ground to the rear of the roller to avoid overloading the roller with weight. A delivery mechanism is supported on the implement with delivery tubes extending downwardly to pivot connections on the roller supports.

Abstract: Equipment to test psychologically drivers of all kinds of motor vehicles, and in particular, to test stereoscopic vision. The testing of stereoscopic vision consists in checking up the competence of spatial perception, necessary for distance evaluation.The equipment consists of two main parts: a measuring and recording device, and a control desk of the tested person.The test consists of aligning two measuring rods with the third one, which is in the middle, and is immobilized. The tested person looks through a slot in the wall of the control desk, and operates an aligning mechanism. The results of the test are automatically recorded on the recording plate of the equipment.

Abstract: A cultivator has a beamed frame with a coupling member that can be attached to the lower points of a lift device on a tractor. The cultivator has an assembly of blades mounted on a horizontal shaft which is driven via a forward transmission connected to the p.t.o. of the tractor. A power driven roller is turned by a rear transmission that is interconnected to the forward transmission by a telescopic shaft. The roller is mounted on a supporting structure including overhead beams that extend forwardly to a pivot connection on top of the coupling member. The roller is vertically displaceable and mounted on pivoted arms of the structure. Hydraulic assemblies can raise and/or lower the roller relative to ground wheels on the structure, for transport. A delivery mechanism including a hopper with a connectable feeder drive is supported on the structure in front of the roller. The roller can be driven to aid the forward travel of the implement.

Abstract: Teat cups are pulsed by a valve in a duct leading from the shell into the pulsation space between a resilient inflation and the shell. The valve alternately opens the pulsation space to ambient pressure and to a source of vacuum. The source of vacuum in the receiver or milk lines is in communication with the pulsation space through a tube or passage that is controlled by the valve. A timer connected to a solenoid actuator for the valve unseats the valve to allow air to enter the pulsation space, whereupon the inflation assumes a normal configuration. Upon seating to close ambient air entry while establishing vacuum to the space, the vacuum flattens the inflation. The timer sequences the air movement to ensure that milk flowing to the receiver clears the milk from the inflation and prevents back flow to the animal's teats.

Abstract: A washing machine comprises a rotatable washing drum divided by an internal screw conveyor into a number of separate washing and rinsing zones. A chamber mounted on the external surface of the drum in the area of the principal washing zone communicates with the principal washing zone and contains a partition which defines a liquid-containing pocket. This pocket is at least partially filled with liquid throughout rotation of the drum and contains a heating device which acts to heat the liquid.

Abstract: A cultivator or harrow has a row of soil working members and each of these members is a rotatable support on a shaft that is driven to rotate about an upwardly extending axis. Each support is comprised by two similar diametrically opposed portions and each portion has a lower tine and an upper tool that differs in shape and form from the lower tine. The upper tool can be a pair of different tines or a tine-like extension of the support portion that functions as a rigid tine. The lower more resilient tine works the sub-soil and the upper tool works the topsoil. The lower tines of the two portions can be a single element of spring steel that is retained by quick release pins in lower support recesses and the fastening portions of the lower tines can bear on the heads of further pins that retain upper tines in their corresponding recesses so that one release means retains all of the tools on each support portion.