Patents by Inventor Jay C. Altman

Jay C. Altman 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: 4290373
    Abstract: A tractor towed seedling transplanter includes a main frame with a pair of canted rear wheels, a rearwardly facing operator's seat and a tray for storing a supply of seedlings to be transplanted. A power take-off from the wheels operates a rotary metering turret supporting a plurality of clam shell type hopper cups which receive individual seedling plants and are opened in proper timed relation by an adjustable cam to deposit individual plants in a vertically disposed feed tube having a lower end positioned above a furrow opened in the soil by a plow positioned forwardly of the canted rear wheels. Adjustment of the cam means permits an accurate release of the seedling plants from the clam shell hopper cups to properly discharge the seedlings into the feed tube for discharge into the furrow which is closed over the root clumps of the seedlings by the canted rear wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1981
    Assignee: Mechanical Transplanter Company
    Inventors: W. Stewart Boots, Jay C. Altman