Patents by Inventor Floyd Ernest Brown

Floyd Ernest Brown 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: 6690285
    Abstract: A forage harvester represents agricultural implements that include at least one rotating component which is driven through a drive train including a main clutch operable between engaged and disengaged conditions so as to selectively couple and disconnect an output of the implement power source with the rotatable component. A rotation alarm circuit is provided for causing a warning device or devices to be energized in the event that the operator leaves a seat, in which he sits for normal operation, for a predetermined minimum time period while the rotatable component is still rotating, as determined by a rotation sensor. The warning device will remain energized until the rotatable component spins down to a zero speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Rainer Richard Schäfer, Eberhard Holtkotte, Karl-Josef Willeke, Larry N. Smith, Stanley Jerome Johnson, James W. Klimes, Arlyn Ray Nelsen, Bradley W. Thorvilson, Marvin B. Wagner, Michael E. Delaney, Floyd Ernest Brown
  • Publication number: 20030169176
    Abstract: A forage harvester represents agricultural implements that include at least one rotating component which is driven through a drive train including a main clutch operable between engaged and disengaged conditions so as to selectively couple and disconnect an output of the implement power source with the rotatable component. A rotation alarm circuit is provided for causing a warning device or devices to be energized in the event that the operator leaves a seat, in which he sits for normal operation, for a predetermined minimum time period while the rotatable component is still rotating, as determined by a rotation sensor. The warning device will remain energized until the rotatable component spins down to a zero speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Inventors: Rainer Richard Schafer, Eberhard Holtkotte, Karl-Josef Willeke, Larry N. Smith, Stanley Jerome Johnson, James W. Klimes, Arlyn Ray Nelsen, Bradley W. Thorvilson, Marvin B. Wagner, Michael E. Delaney, Floyd Ernest Brown
  • Patent number: 5941169
    Abstract: A baler for making parallelepiped bales is equipped with a bale ejector or thrower structure including a bale throwing pan supported by a four-bar linkage that is swung upwardly by a hydraulic throwing cylinder. A control valve structure including a solenoid-operated trip valve and a solenoid-operated pressure-relief valve is actuated for effecting pressurization of the throwing cylinder and throwing of a bale in response to a trip switch being closed in response to a trip pedal being rotated by a bale moving rearwardly on the throwing pan as it exits the baler bale chamber, the trip valve when actuated blocking a source of fluid pressure from normal communication with a fluid sump, and the pressure-relief valve when actuated being operable for maintaining the working fluid pressure at a value determined by a variable potentiometer connected in circuit with the solenoid of the pressure relief valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Floyd Ernest Brown, Patrick Augie, Thomas Cedric Boe