Patents by Inventor Ernest F. Sammann

Ernest F. Sammann 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: 4473196
    Abstract: A motor driven wire roller for attachment to a three point hitch of a farm tractor. The apparatus includes an elongated shaft, having a motor means attached to rotate one end of the shaft, and a wire drum having the central axis thereof attached to a medial part of the shaft so that rotation of the shaft by the motor imparts rotational motion into the wire drum. A wire guide having drag plates associated therewith is included in the apparatus. The entire apparatus is easily assembled to the tractor hitch arm of a three point hitch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1984
    Inventors: Ernest F. Sammann, Jess W. Sammann
  • Patent number: 4137695
    Abstract: A corn saver apparatus removably attached to a self-propelled commercially available corn harvester which facilitates harvesting of corn growing in a field. The apparatus comprises an agricultural implement which augments a standard corn harvester by picking up stalks of corn which have fallen, and further by moving broken stalks of corn into the harvesting apparatus. The apparatus of the present invention is removably mounted in overlying relationship respective to the gathering apparatus of a conventional corn harvester and significantly increases the yield realized from a field of corn by avoiding the waste of corn which heretofore has been left lying on the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1979
    Inventor: Ernest F. Sammann