Patents by Inventor George D. Porter, Jr.

George D. Porter, 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: 4310988
    Abstract: An apparatus and process applying herbicide-containing liquid to weeds in a field also containing growing cultivated crops neighboring said weeds comprises means for moving an apparatus that transports a load of herbicide-containing liquid in a reservoir therefor along that field and then distributing that liquid from that reservoir to a weed-contacting surface: the pressure-controlled liquid reservoir provides the herbicide-containing liquid to any array of dispenser units arranged to rapidly and reliably and selectively and efficiently apply such herbicide-bearing liquid to the surface of weed plants in the field projecting above a neighboring cultivated crop without misapplication of such herbicide-containing liquids to such neighboring crops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1982
    Inventor: George D. Porter, Jr.