Patents by Inventor Emory R. Hodgson, Jr.

Emory R. Hodgson, Jr. 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: 4484636
    Abstract: A tractor-drawn levee plow having a telescoping frame pivotally supporting a pair of harrow-gangs arranged to move soil laterally toward each other to a center-line to form the levee, the frame also pivotally supporting a pair of hydraulic cylinders powered by the tractor and connected in fluid-power series, one each of which is pivotally connected to the outer end portion of one of the gangs and each of which is utilized in practicing a new method involving forcibly holding the outer portion of its gang in elevated and/or depressed relation to its inner end portion while in ground-engaging position to thereby most effectively and efficiently construct a levee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 27, 1984
    Assignee: Dynamics Corporation of America
    Inventor: Emory R. Hodgson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4422512
    Abstract: A narrow-base terracing plow comprising a tractor-borne transverse frame supporting a pair of transversely spaced rearwardly and outwardly extending gangs of inwardly directed disc harrows, each gang being pivotally mounted on a mounting bracket for vertical swinging movement relative thereto and the mounting bracket being mounted on said frame for swinging movement about a vertical axis, each gang having a rigid link pivotally connected thereto and to the frame and having a hydraulic cylinder extending between its mounting bracket and the medial portions of the gang by means of which the outer end portion of the gang can be forced downwardly into the soil to a greater extent than its innermore portions, thereby causing the soil through which it passes to be moved laterally toward the centerline until a terrace is formed between the gangs and peaks thereat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1983
    Assignee: Dynamics Corporation of America
    Inventors: Emory R. Hodgson, Jr., Darryl C. Rester