Abstract: A packaging cushion insert is useful for cushioning a packaged object. The insert comprises a top sheet, a bottom sheet; and a plurality of interior sheets between the top and bottom sheets. The top sheet, the bottom sheet, and the plurality of interior sheets are in stacked and laminated arrangement. The top sheet, bottom sheet, and plurality of interior sheets each comprise one or more materials selected from an air-cellular cushioning material, cellular foam material, and crumpled paper material.

Abstract: A product sheet of composite material can be made by disposing composite materials of composite material in adjacent (side-by-side) relation with each other. The composite materials comprise fibers in a thermoplastic matrix material. The adjacent composite materials are bonded together to provide a product sheet of composite material. Preferably, a cross ply of composite material is disposed on the composite materials. The cross ply may be a unidirectional sheet and the fibers in the cross ply may be disposed in transverse relation to the fibers in the composite materials.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a composite sheet includes joining a first elastic strip member to a sheet by feeding and surface-contacting the first elastic strip member to a continuous body of the sheet; and joining a second elastic strip member to the sheet by feeding and surface-contacting the second elastic strip member to the continuous body. The first elastic strip member supplied toward a first spindle portion side roller is subsequently put around an outer circumferential face of the first spindle portion side roller and an outer circumferential face of a first oscillating end side roller. The second elastic strip member supplied toward the second spindle portion side roller of a second oscillating arm is subsequently put around an outer circumferential face of a second spindle portion side roller and an outer circumferential face of the second oscillating end side roller of the second oscillating arm.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for application of pavement markers to a roadway or surface that provides for mechanical separation of paper backer from the adhesive surface of the markers. A pair of motor driven drums, having two barb bands, drives the markers through the apparatus and grasps and separates the paper backer from the markers.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include a cordless architectural passage covering system, apparatus and method for making the same. The covering may include a support member, a roller attached to the support member, a first material having a proximal portion secured to the roller, whereby the first material can be wound about the roller or unwound therefrom, a second material having a proximal portion secured to the support member and a distal portion secured to a distal portion of the first material, and at least one guide member attached to the second material, whereby the at least one guide member guides the second material about the first material as the first material is wound about the roller or unwound therefrom.

Abstract: Movable partition systems include a movable partition engaged with and movable along a longitudinal track and a lead drive box coupled to the movable partition and engaged with the track. The lead drive box is configured to move along the track and move the movable partition along the track. The lead drive box includes a trolley for disposition within the track, a motor coupled to the lead drive box, and a rotatable drive member coupled to the lead drive box and the motor. The rotatable drive member engages an elongated drive member extending along the track to motivate the lead drive box and the movable partition attached thereto along the track when engaged with the motor and the motor is rotating. An electronics module disposed within the lead drive box is configured for controlling operation of the motor responsive to signals originating from sources carried by the lead drive box.

Abstract: A retractable cellular shade is illustrated in various embodiments to consist of a support structure that could assume numerous forms including cellular material, flexible sheets of material, tapes or ribbons, or flexible monofilaments or similar cords of natural or synthetic fibers with the support structure supporting a plurality of vanes or slats in various configurations and orientations. The movement of the vanes or slats is totally dependent upon movement of the support structure. The fabric so formed can be incorporated into a covering for architectural openings with the covering including a headrail with means for gathering the fabric material within the headrail.

Abstract: First and second lifting and lowering units are connected to first and second shielding members hung from a head rail, and an operating cord drives the units to lift and lower the shielding members independently. An operating cord is wound around a rotating member. Between a first input shaft to which the turning force of the rotating member is transferred and a first output shaft that can lift and lower the first shielding member, a first clutch of the first lifting and lowering unit is provided, and a first stopper is provided in the first output shaft. Between a second input shaft to which the turning force of the rotating member is transferred and a second output shaft that can lift and lower the second shielding member, a second clutch of the second lifting and lowering unit is provided, and a second stopper is provided in the second output shaft.

Abstract: A window shade includes a frame (1), a shade (2), a shade driving mechanism (3), and a bead chain (4) for driving the shade (2) through the shade driving mechanism (3). A barrel (5) is mounted to the frame (1) at a location corresponding to the bead chain (4). A sliding block (7) is slideably received in the barrel (5) and connected to a handle (8) mounted outside of the barrel (5) by a link (9) extending through a slit (6) in the barrel (5). The bead chain (4) is wound around a fixed pulley (16) mounted to an end of the barrel (5). The sliding block (7) is fixed to a section (4a) of the bead chain (4) received in the barrel (5).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a roller blind idle end assembly for roller blinds comprising a splined bush, a support bearing and an end pin, wherein the splined bush is supported by the support bearing and rotatable relative thereto in use; the end pin projects from the support bearing and is slidably coupled thereto such that the end pin is adapted to move axially relative to the support bearing and projects therefrom to engage with a receiving element of a mounting bracket; and wherein the end pin is rotationally fixed relative to the support bearing. This assembly reduces wear between an idle end pin and an idle end bracket and the likelihood of failure of the blind.

Abstract: A method for producing articles in a mold includes bringing a material into a free-flowing state, introducing the material into the mold via a bottom-casting principle, and solidifying being carried out according to a top-casting principle. The material, viewed in a flow direction of the material, is first introduced into a pouring basin of a runner, then flows through the runner, thereafter through a storage space that is located upstream from a cavity and that is arranged underneath the cavity, and from there into the cavity. Thereafter the mold including the sub-parts of the mold is pivoted so that the storage space takes over the function of a feeder or riser.

Abstract: A mold for producing a part, such as a turbomachine blade model, by injecting wax into a cavity, the cavity including at least two cavity elements, each of which is supported in a cavity block. The two cavity blocks are mobile relative to one another between a closed position for injecting the wax and an open position for removing the part following the injection of the wax. The two cavity blocks are mobile in a horizontal plane.

Abstract: A casting roll for a two-roll casting device for the casting of metallic strip from a metal melt, in particular a steel melt, includes a roll body, on a casing surface of which a coating consisting of a coating material is applied by thermal spraying, which has a higher degree of hardness than the roll body. The casting roll according to the invention and the two-roll casting device, while easy to manufacture, has not only a long service life, but also allows for the manufacture of cast strips of optimum quality. This is achieved by the fact that the free surface of the coating, after thermal spraying, has a peak number RPc of at least 10 cm?1.

Abstract: A heat exchanger for at least one thermoelectric thin film element, having a hot and a cold side arranged on opposite longitudinal sides of the thin film element. The hot side is connected to a coupling element on a warm source and the cold side is connected to a heat sink. The heat exchanger connects in a simple and active manner to the thermoelectric thin film element and improves the efficiency of the attached thermoelectric thin film element. Especially flexible thin film elements spread out between the coupling element and the heat sink of the heat exchanger and support the load between the coupling element and the heat sink by a thermally insulating support structure.

Abstract: An evaporator for a cooling circuit is provided, for cooling at least one heat emitting device by evaporation of a cooling fluid. The evaporator includes a top collector, a bottom collector, and an evaporator body. The evaporator body includes at least one thermoconducting wall that is thermally connectable to the at least one heat emitting device, a plurality of evaporation channels, and a plurality of return channels.

Abstract: A multi-layer antimicrobial hydrophilic coating is applied to a substrate of anodized aluminum, although other materials may form the substrate. A silver layer is sputtered onto a thoroughly clean anodized surface of the aluminum to about 400 nm thickness. A layer of crosslinked, silicon-based macromolecular structure about 10 nm thickness overlies the silver layer, and the outermost surface of the layer of crosslinked, silicon-based macromolecular structure is hydroxide terminated to produce a hydrophilic surface with a water drop contact angle of less than 10°. The coated substrate may be one of multiple fins in a condensing heat exchanger for use in the microgravity of space, which has narrow channels defined between angled fins such that the surface tension of condensed water moves water by capillary flow to a central location where it is pumped to storage. The antimicrobial coating prevents obstruction of the capillary passages.

Abstract: A control circuit for a coiled tubing injector includes a circuit controller (14). One or more counterbalance vales (3) may be responsive to the circuit controller to prevent the tubing string from descending into the wellbore during rate of penetration movement. In one embodiment, a control valve (4) allows fluid to flow through a bypass line around the counterbalance valves when drilling in a weight-on-bit mode. Other hydraulic control circuits allow for the release of fluid pressure to control the injector hydraulic motor. In yet another embodiment, the control circuit regulates power to an electric motor of the injector.

Abstract: A mechanical mud bucket for collecting drilling fluid from tubular members of a drill string or work string. A first shell member includes a fluid outlet. A second shell member is pivotally attached to the first shell member. A seal mechanism and a mechanical locking component are attached to the first and second shell members. In an engaged position, the mechanical locking component locks the first and second shell members in a closed position such that the seal mechanism seals an inner space of the mechanical mud bucket and an annular space between one or more tubular members and the first and second shell members. A pressure control may be attached to the first or second shell members for maintaining atmospheric pressure within the inner space of the mechanical mud bucket when draining drilling fluid.

Abstract: A whipstock assembly allowing a lowside casing exit, the whipstock assembly includes a whipstock including an upstream portion and a downstream portion, the upstream portion having a deflection wedge surface and an opposite casing-side surface; and a fulcrum protruding from the whipstock and positioned between the downstream portion and the upstream portion. Also includes is a method of allowing a first side exit in a window milling operation of a casing having a first side and an opposite second side.

Abstract: A linkage device separate from the integrated slips bridge links the pair of spaced-apart members of each slip to prevent sizeable fractured bits from moving away in the event of a fracture in the slip. The linkage device comprises a pair of ductile steel bars the ends of which loosely anchor in holes in each slip member, the holes being located at both sides of the slips at opposite ends of a groove that houses the linkage bar preventing it from falling out of the holes. In this way, a fractured slip may continue to assist in setting the tool and, moreover, potential hazardous interference in further tool operations are avoided. Furthermore, tool damage including slips fracture is reduced by a resilient damper material which buffers the lower cone as it slides down on the slip-holder cage during a tool release operation.

Abstract: Anti-extrusion devices, packer elements, and inflatable packers include shape memory polymer (SMP) materials to enhance the operation of a packer, a bridge plug, or other downhole isolation tool. Seal system use seals of various material including SMP materials as booster for the seal produced. Tool for flow shut-off and sliding sleeve applications use SMP materials to open or close off flow through a tool.

Abstract: A rubber bullet-shaped cylindrical device that functions to non-invasively plug a gushing pipe of high pressure oil. The steel belted inflatable rubber plugging device with attached high pressure hoses is inserted into a gushing oil well pipe while it pumps shipboard a high pressure stream of recycled oil itself that will not freeze at the gushing oil well to fight or knife through the oil and the pressure of the oil gushing to assist with inserting and descending the apparatus into the pipe while the operator follows a sequence of operational steps. A hose that has a vacuum applied to reduce the size of the inflatable bladder to allow it to fit it into the pipe unrestricted until it stops at the right location then recycled oil that will not freeze is pumped into the bladder to seal the oil well and to allow the cement pouring operation.

Abstract: A screen assembly for removing particulates from a fluid in a well bore said well bore being provided with a tubing for transport of fluids inside the tube, said tube being provided with sliding sleeve doors through which the fluids flow from the well bore external the tube and into the tube. The screen assembly comprises a filter arranged external the tubing and covering the sliding sleeve doors, such that the filter prevents particles above a predefined size from entering through the sliding sleeve doors: The screen assembly further comprises a supportive tube having apertures allowing well bore fluids to pass. Furthermore said filter is arranged on the inner side of said supportive tube, such that the filter is placed between the supportive tube and the tube with the sliding sleeve doors. The filter is made from ceramic material.

Abstract: A bow-spring centralizer (6) includes bow springs (5), moving collars (11) secured to each end of each bow spring, and interlocked stop collars (10). Extendable collars (8) may each be formed of a moving collar (11) movably interlocked with a stop collar (10). The centralizer (6) may optionally be formed from a tube cut using a laser to create two extendable collars coupled by bow springs. Each extendable collar may include heads integrally formed on extensions protruding from a collar (stop collar or moving collar). The heads may be generally rectangular, arrow, or teardrop-shaped head or some other shape. Each head may be slidably captured within a chamber on the interlocked collar (moving collar or stop collar). The extensions of each interlocked tubular member define the outer walls of the chamber in which a head of the interlocked tubular member is slidably captured.

Abstract: An apparatus for heating a hydrocarbon deposit that is susceptible to RF heating by coupling a linear conductive element that extends into the material to a source of RF power. The apparatus includes a source of RF power connected to driving winding that extends around a magnetic core loop and the magnetic core loop extends around the RF conductive linear element. One or more apparatus may be used to couple RF energy to conductive elements that extend into a hydrocarbon deposit to achieve a desired RF current within the element. RF energy may be coupled to conductive elements that are adjacent to each other within a hydrocarbon deposit to create a desired region of heating within the hydrocarbon deposit. The magnetic core loop may start and stop the RF energy to position heating.

Abstract: A parallel fed well antenna array and method for heating a hydrocarbon formation is disclosed. An aspect of at least one embodiment is a parallel fed well antenna array. It includes an electrically conductive pipe having radiating segments and insulator segments. It also includes a two conductor shielded electrical cable where the shield has discontinuities such that the first conductor and the second conductor are exposed. The first conductor is electrically connected to the conductive pipe and the second conductor is electrically connected to the shield of the electrical cable just beyond an insulator segment of the conductive well pipe A radio frequency source is configured to apply a signal to the electrical cable.

Abstract: An apparatus that includes a chemical injection management system. The chemical injection management system may include an interface configured to couple the chemical injection management system to a mineral extraction system. In addition, the chemical injection management system may include an ultrasonic flow meter.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for measuring formation properties comprising coiled tubing fitted with a bottom hole assembly, wherein said bottom hole assembly comprises means to measure formation fluid properties, means to transmit said formation fluid properties to a surface monitoring system, means to isolate a section of a wellbore, and means to control the flow of fluid entering said coiled tubing.

Abstract: A method of servicing a wellbore comprising placing an oil-based wellbore servicing fluid comprising an electrical conductivity enhancer into the wellbore and logging the wellbore by resistivity imaging. A method of servicing a wellbore comprising introducing an oil-based drilling fluid to a wellbore, identifying a subsection of the wellbore for imaging, introducing to the subsection of the wellbore a oil-based wellbore servicing fluid comprising a carbon nanotube wherein the servicing fluid comprising the electrical conductivity enhancer mixes with the oil-based drilling fluid; and imaging the subsection of the wellbore.

Abstract: Formation testing which may involve circulating mud in a pipe string from a mud pit through a port in the pipe string to a downhole diverter sub, wherein the pipe string is suspended in a wellbore extending into a subterranean formation, operating a downhole pump to pump formation fluid from the formation, wherein the formation fluid comprises gas, and mixing the pumped formation fluid with circulated mud such that a proportion of the pumped formation gas in the circulated mud is maintained below a threshold value.

Abstract: A process for the production of hydrogen in a subterranean hydrocarbon reservoir, is provided. The process may comprise the steps of introducing a metal-based catalyst into a hydrocarbon-containing zone in said reservoir, raising the temperature in said zone to a temperature at which catalyzed conversion of hydrocarbon to hydrogen occurs, and, optionally but preferably, recovering hydrogen from an extraction section of a production well located above said zone.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing mineral oil from underground formations, wherein, in one process step, permeable regions of the underground formation are blocked by injecting aqueous formulations of hydrophobically associating copolymers into the formation.

Abstract: A method of heterogeneous proppant placement in a subterranean fracture is disclosed. The method comprises injecting a first treatment fluid comprising a gas and substantially free of macroscopic particles through a wellbore to initiate a fracture in a subterranean formation; injecting a second treatment fluid comprising proppant and channelant through the wellbore into the fracture; placing the proppant in the fracture in a plurality of proppant clusters forming pillars spaced apart by the channelant; and removing the channelant to form open channels around the pillars for fluid flow from the subterranean formation through the fracture toward the wellbore.

Abstract: Proppants for use in fractured or gravel packed/frac packed oil and gas wells are provided with a contaminant removal component to remove one or more of the contaminants found in subterranean water/hydrocarbon from a production well. The water/hydrocarbon cleaning proppant solids may be used as discrete particles in a proppant formulation, as a coating on proppant solids in pores of a porous proppant solid or as part of the proppant's internal structure. The contaminant removal component removes contaminants, especially dissolved contaminants, in the subterranean water or hydrocarbon before the water/hydrocarbon leaves the well. For those contaminant removal components that can be regenerated, such as ion exchange resins, a measured quantity of an acidic regeneration solution can be injected into the fractured stratum for regeneration and recovered when the well resumes production.

Abstract: A system for opening a window (320) in lateral wellbore construction. The system includes a window joint (300) that is operable to be interconnected within a casing string. The window joint (300) has a window (304) formed therein that is defined by at least one score line (306) that creates a preferentially weaken region within the window joint (300) enabling internal removal of the window (304) in a predictable manner without generating wellbore debris. A window removal tool (310) is operable to be run in the casing string. The window removal tool (310) is operably engagable with the window (304) such that actuation of the window removal tool (310) internally removes the window (304) from the window joint (300), thereby opening the window (320).

Abstract: A device for dissipating heat away from a heat sensitive component includes a heat dissipation member thermally coupled to a heat sensitive component. The heat dissipation member may be formed of a composite material. In aspects, the device may be include an enclosure coupled to a conveyance device; a heat sensitive component disposed in the enclosure; and a composite heat dissipation member thermally coupled to the heat sensitive component. The composite heat dissipation member may include a metal and a non-metal. The apparatus may also include an encapsulation substantially encapsulating the heat dissipation member and the heat sensitive component.

Abstract: Methods of using nanohybrid-containing fluids in a well are provided. The methods include the steps of: (a) forming or providing a well fluid comprising a nanohybrid; and (b) introducing the well fluid into a well. The methods can be used in various applications, such as in drilling, completion, or intervention operations.

Abstract: A method or process for hydraulically fracturing an underground hydrocarbon deposit includes using as a source of water an underground aquifer which contains water which is stable and clear in the aquifer but which may include undesirable chemical compounds as soluble components that are not in solution when subjected to reduced pressure at atmospheric conditions. Water from the aquifer is used as a source of water for the hydrocarbon fracturing process. The water is pumped at a pressure above its bubble point pressure A source well and a disposal well are drilled into the aquifer. A pump capable of maintaining the water above its bubble point pressure is provided, and a closed loop is established with a manifold, or a manifold and pumps, to keep the aquifer water circulating at a pressure above its bubble point pressure. The hydrocarbon reserve is fractured using the water.

Abstract: Wellbore-cleaning compositions comprising microemulsions are useful during cementing operations. The microemulsion solvent may be selected from the group comprising methyl esters and ethoxylated alcohols. The microemulsion surfactants comprise a water-wetting surfactant, a cleaning surfactant, an emulsifying surfactant, a non-ionic surfactant and a non-ionic co-surfactant. The wellbore-cleaning compositions may be pumped alone, ahead of a conventional spacer fluid or scavenger slurry and behind a conventional spacer fluid or scavenger slurry. In addition, the wellbore-cleaning composition may be incorporated into a carrier fluid such as (but not limited to) a conventional spacer fluid or scavenger slurry. The resulting fluid mixture may be pumped as a spacer fluid.

Abstract: A check valve for gas lift applications can be attached externally to a side pocket mandrel or can be a gas lift valve used in the mandrel. The valve has a seat with a non-elastomeric element and a metal element. A biasing element resiliently biases the non-elastomeric element to provide resiliency to the seal produced. A metal dart moves in the bore relative to the seat and allows or prevents flow through the valve body. When exposed to a first differential pressure, the dart engages the non-elastomeric element resiliently biased by the biasing element. When exposed to a greater differential pressure, the dart engages the metal element, which can be part of the valve in the bore. In one arrangement, the non-elastomeric element can be a thermoplastic component with a metal spring energized seal as the biasing element. Alternatively, the non-elastomeric element can be the jacket of metal spring energized seal with a coil spring as the biasing element.

Abstract: A downhole circulating valve includes a generally tubular outer housing having an axially extending internal passageway including an internal seat and at least one generally radially extending opening formed through the housing intersecting the internal seat. A valve element is rotatably disposed within the internal passageway. The valve element has an axially extending internal bore and a head portion disposed at least partially within the internal seat. The head portion includes at least one generally radially extending seal element. The valve element has a first position relative to the housing, wherein the seal element is not aligned with the opening, thereby allowing fluid communication between the opening and the internal passageway.

Abstract: A rotating breech lock rotates tubing to distribute wear caused by a rotating or reciprocating rod of an artificial lift system. The rotating breech lock has a spool that disposes on a wellhead. A bowl element disposes in the spool's bore, and a hanger fits into the spool and lands on the bowl element with a thrust bearing. Above the hanger, a load ring fits against the hanger with a bearing, and a hold-down sleeve and locking pins hold the load ring against the hanger. The spool has a worm that mates with a wheel defined about the hanger so turning the worm by a ratchet or other mechanism rotates the hanger. Internally, the hanger has a bore with opposing shoulders separated by gaps. A mandrel couples to the tubing and disposes up into the hanger. Protrusions or keys on the hanger can selectively align with the gaps and the shoulders depending on how the mandrel is rotated in the hanger bore.

Abstract: An assembly and techniques for employing multiple motors to drive an oilfield injector. The injector is configured to drive a well access line such as coiled tubing and the motors may be electric in nature. Additionally, the motors are configured to operate at substantially sufficient cooling speeds for electric motors. Nevertheless, the motors are coupled through a common differential mechanism such that a range of differential speeds may be derived via comparison of the operating speeds of the motors. Thus, a wide array of injection speeds may be employed without requiring the motors to operate at dangerously low speeds in terms of electric motor cooling.

Abstract: A method of recovering oil from a heterogeneous reservoir, comprising a plurality of permeable porous blocks of rock whose pores contain oil and which form interfaces with regions between the blocks, e.g. fractures, having a higher permeability than the blocks. Treating the interfaces such that the wettability of the surfaces of the blocks is in a predetermined wettability range, then reducing the permeability in the highly permeable regions, and finally flooding the reservoir by injecting a chase fluid into the reservoir. With the present method, water phase bridges are established between adjacent blocks in the reservoir thus allowing a transmission of injection pressure for viscous displacement from one block to the next across the reservoir. A method for long-time storage of CO2 by using CO2 as chase fluid or foaming gas according to the present method for oil recovery from heterogeneous reservoirs.

Abstract: A dry pipe sprinkler system comprises at least one sprinkler head (18); a control valve (10) operable to supply an extinguishant to the sprinkler head; a system of pipes (16) interconnecting the control valve and the sprinkler head, the pipe system comprising a control column (26) and a riser pipe (42); and a pressure control means (38) located downstream of the control valve and upstream of the sprinkler head; wherein the pipe system is arranged to form a manometer which contains a quantity of extinguishant up to a predetermined level (48) in the control column and in the riser pipe; wherein the manometer is arranged such that the creation of a pressure differential across the pressure control means results in a reduction in the extinguishant level in the control column and a rise in the extinguishant level in the riser pipe; and wherein the control valve is adapted to open to supply extinguishant to the sprinkler head when there is a change in the predetermined level of extinguishant in the control column a

Abstract: An aircraft fire prevention system provides oxygen depleted (hypoxic) air for the fuel tank and/or cargo compartment protection; the system does not employ compressed air for the production of hypoxic air, which allows to save energy and fuel and to reduce negative impact on the earth atmosphere.

Abstract: An agricultural row unit includes a hydraulic cylinder coupled to a support member for urging a soil-engaging tool coupled to the support member downwardly toward the soil. A hydraulic line is coupled to the hydraulic cylinder for supplying pressurized hydraulic fluid to the cylinder, and a controllable valve is provided in the hydraulic line for controlling the supply of pressurized hydraulic fluid to the cylinder through the line. A pressure sensor, such as a load cell or strain gauge, is connected between the hydraulic cylinder and the support member for producing an electrical signal corresponding to the pressure on the tool, and a controller is coupled to the pressure sensor and the controllable valve, the controller being adapted to receive the electrical signal from the pressure sensor and produce a control signal for controlling the valve thus the supply of the hydraulic fluid to the cylinder.

Abstract: An agricultural traction system having a) two agricultural machineries, respectively one left-handed machinery and one right-handed machinery, each machinery having a rectilinear frame having four corners, four wheels, each attached to one of the four corners of the rectilinear frame, a driving and reversible control unit mounted on the frame between two adjacent wheels of the four wheels, a hoist connected to the frame and provided with a safety clutch, jacks arranged on one side of the frame and configured to steady the machinery, counterweights, arranged on another side of the frame, opposite to the side of the frame on which the jacks are arranged, and means, provided inside the control unit, for independent and remote automatic driving, b) a cable configured to wind and unwind around respective hoists of the two machineries, c) an agricultural tool that moves along the cable as the cable winds and unwinds around the hoists; and d) a telescopic arm attached to the agricultural tool and configured to exten

Abstract: The front mounting assembly has a vehicle-mounted frame and a plow-mounted frame that are drawn together by a lift actuator such as a hydraulic cylinder, and brought into registry by guides. When the frames are aligned, slides are advanced from one frame into slide receivers affixed to the other frame and secured thereto by pins. The guides include a pair of guide tabs, which protrude from the plow-mounted frame to guidably engage and subsequently cradle a horizontal lower bar on the vehicle-mounted frame, and a pair of angled upper guides on the plow-mounted frame, which engage a pair of vertical plates on the vehicle-mounted frame to help center the plow-mounted frame as it is pulled into position. For plows having a side wing, a rear mounting assembly engages and lifts a mounting block attached to the wing into a base member to which it is pinned.

Abstract: A vehicle wheel assembly is provided which includes a vehicle frame having a first axle, a wheel assembly having a housing with an aperture engaging the first axle and enabling the wheel assembly to pivot in a first plane about a first axis formed by the first axle. A cylindrical member is carried by the housing of the wheel assembly, the cylindrical member and housing are arranged perpendicular to the first axle. A first wheel is pivotably connected to a first portion of the cylindrical member and a second wheel is pivotably connected to a second portion of the cylindrical member. The first wheel and second wheel independently pivot in a second plane about a second axis formed by the cylindrical member. The first axis is arranged perpendicular to the second axis and the first plane is arranged perpendicular to the second plane.