Patents by Inventor Donald Jonathon Quick

Donald Jonathon Quick 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).

  • Butt lifting roller for sugar cane harvesters
    Patent number: 3952482
    Abstract: Butt lifter roller for lifting the butts of sugar cane sticks immediately after severing by the base cutter in a sugar cane harvester. The roller has V-shaped grooves of varying width extending round its periphery. Cane butts at least partially enter the grooves and are pinched or gripped therein and lifted over the roller by rotation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1976
    Assignee: Massey-Ferguson Services N.V.
    Inventor: Donald Jonathon Quick
  • Stick feeding roller for sugar cane harvesters
    Patent number: 3950924
    Abstract: Roller for feeding wholestick cane from the base cutters towards the can chopping apparatus in a sugar cane harvester. Cane engaging bars are mounted on a central shaft by means of curved leaf springs and accommodate themselves to variations in the thickness of the layer of cane fed, by deflection of the leaf springs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1976
    Assignee: Massey-Ferguson Services N.V.
    Inventor: Donald Jonathon Quick
  • Billet elevator for sugar cane harvesters
    Patent number: 3942307
    Abstract: Chain and slat type elevator for pieces of chopped sugar cane in a sugar cane harvester has a slope of between 50.degree. and 90.degree. with respect to the horizontal. An endless belt of wire mesh above the working run of the elevator engages the cane pieces and prevents them rolling back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1974
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1976
    Assignee: Massey-Ferguson Services N.V.
    Inventor: Donald Jonathon Quick