Patents by Inventor A. Lowell Norris

A. Lowell Norris has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6527205
    Abstract: An agricultural particulate material delivery system for delivering metered agricultural particulate material to a growing medium includes first and second compartments adapted to contain different agricultural particulate materials, a material meter having an interior and a flow switching mechanism between the first and second compartments and the meter. The flow switching mechanism is actuatable between a first position in which the flow switching mechanism supplies material from the first compartment to the interior of the meter, a second position in which the flow switching mechanism supplies material from the second compartment to the interior of the meter and a third position in which the flow switching mechanism stops the supply of material from both the first and second compartments to the interior of the meter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Case, LLC
    Inventors: Ingemar R. Andersson, Edward B. Adams, Lowell A. Norris
  • Publication number: 20010019087
    Abstract: An agricultural particulate material delivery system for delivering metered agricultural particulate material to a growing medium includes first and second compartments adapted to contain different agricultural particulate materials, a material meter having an interior and a flow switching mechanism between the first and second compartments and the meter. The flow switching mechanism is actuatable between a first position in which the flow switching mechanism supplies material from the first compartment to the interior of the meter, a second position in which the flow switching mechanism supplies material from the second compartment to the interior of the meter and a third position in which the flow switching mechanism stops the supply of material from both the first and second compartments to the interior of the meter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2001
    Publication date: September 6, 2001
    Inventors: Ingemar R. Andersonn, Edward B. Adams, Lowell A. Norris
  • Patent number: 6193175
    Abstract: An agricultural particulate material delivery system for delivering metered agricultural particulate material to a growing medium includes first and second compartments adapted to contain different agricultural particulate materials, a material meter having an interior and a flow switching mechanism between the first and second compartments and the meter. The flow switching mechanism is actuatable between a first position in which the flow switching mechanism supplies material from the first compartment to the interior of the meter, a second position in which the flow switching mechanism supplies material from the second compartment to the interior of the meter and a third position in which the flow switching mechanism stops the supply of material from both the first and second compartments to the interior of the meter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignee: Case Corporation
    Inventors: Ingemar R. Andersson, Edward B. Adams, Lowell A. Norris
  • Patent number: 3964639
    Abstract: An air diffuses for use in a seed delivery tube of a pneumatic type of seed planter. This air diffuser is a short length of pipe which is perforated with a plurality of holes. The effective open area of the holes being approximately fifty-percent greater than the open area within the pipe taken on a cross-section of the pipe at the location of the holes. The air diffuser is spliced into the tube at a determinant length from the seed discharge end of the tube. It helps to maintain a uniform spacing of seed planted in the ground by preventing the buildup of back pressure upstream from the seed discharge end of the tube. If back pressure is permitted to build up in the tube, it will change the velocity of the seed traveling through the tube and effect the spacing of the seed planted in the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1976
    Assignee: International Harvester Company
    Inventors: A. Lowell Norris, Darlo E. Lienemann