Patents by Inventor Christopher D. Sellers

Christopher D. Sellers 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).

  • Cotton harvester
    Patent number: 9402345
    Abstract: A cotton harvester includes plant cutting apparatus to sever cotton plants from a ground surface, plant conveyor apparatus to convey the severed plants into and through a picking chamber, and cotton picking apparatus including picker spindles that move upwardly into the picking chamber through a floor of the chamber to pick cotton filaments from bolls of the plants conveyed as a flattened mat therethrough and carry the cotton downwardly through the floor to doffers that remove the cotton from the spindles. Cotton conveyor apparatus also below the floor conveys the cotton to a receiver, while the plant residue passes from the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Alexandra C. Collier-DeChristopher, Kevin S. Richman, Michael J. Minnich, Geoffrey Rendell, Donald Keller, Christopher D. Sellers, Jesse H. Orsborn
  • COTTON HARVESTER
    Publication number: 20160021822
    Abstract: A cotton harvester includes plant cutting apparatus to sever cotton plants from a ground surface, plant conveyor apparatus to convey the severed plants into and through a picking chamber, and cotton picking apparatus including picker spindles that move upwardly into the picking chamber through a floor of the chamber to pick cotton filaments from bolls of the plants conveyed as a flattened mat therethrough and carry the cotton downwardly through the floor to doffers that remove the cotton from the spindles. Cotton conveyor apparatus also below the floor conveys the cotton to a receiver, while the plant residue passes from the chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Alexandra C. Collier-DeChristopher, Kevin S. Richman, Michael J. Minnich, Geoffrey Rendell, Donald Keller, Christopher D. Sellers, Jesse H. Orsborn