Patents Assigned to Eldon K. Chinn
  • Patent number: 4332299
    Abstract: A cultivator attachment is mounted to the side of a tractor and includes an outwardly projecting boom assembly with first and second boom sections. The boom sections telescope and a cultivator head with a rotating cultivator member is connected to the free end of the second boom section. A first hydraulic cylinder raises and lowers the boom assembly while a second such cylinder extends and retracts the second boom section to move the cultivator head inwardly toward and outwardly away from the tractor to avoid obstacles in its path. A hydraulic motor on the head rotates the cultivator member about its axis. A side tilt mechanism located at the free end of the second boom section tilts the axis of the cultivator member in the plane of the boom assembly to direct the discharge of material from the cultivator head toward or away from the tractor during cultivation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1982
    Assignee: Eldon K. Chinn
    Inventors: Alvin L. Parks, W. D. McAlexander