Patents by Inventor Larry G. Holter

Larry G. Holter 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: 7708106
    Abstract: A vehicle having a rear suspension according to the present teachings may include one or more of the following features: (a) a chassis carrying a seat, (b) at least one front wheel and at least one rear wheel coupled to the chassis, (c) a steering member for steering the at least one front wheel, (d) an engine carried by the chassis for powering the vehicle, (e) a swing arm having a first end and a second end, the first end coupled to a rear axle coupled to the rear wheel, (f) the second swing arm end coupled to the chassis at a point forward of a vertical centerline bisecting the vehicle, and (g) a suspension system operably coupled to the axle and the chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Polaris Industries Inc.
    Inventors: James Bergman, Larry G. Holter
  • Patent number: 5175906
    Abstract: The invention comprises a bean cleaning apparatus comprising a plurality of pairs of elongated inclined rotating parallel rods. One of the rods in each pair has a spiral groove along its length and the other rod has a smooth cylindrical outer surface. The rods in each pair are mounted to a frame with a space between the rods in each pair narrower than a small bean and with the one rod in its rotation spiralling doward so as to auger the beans downward along the rods. The rods in their rotation in each pair rotating toward one another to move the beans toward the rods and with the engagement of the rods with the beans acting as a abresion to the outer surface of the beans to clean the beans of foreign matter as it moves along with the space allowing small particles of foreign matter to pass between the rods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1993
    Assignee: Agricon, Inc.
    Inventor: Larry G. Holter