Gearing Patents (Class 172/226)
  • Patent number: 4592429
    Abstract: A two-way gang plow is provided with a pair of front steering wheels muonted for steering adjustment relative to a pivoted front axle. The steering mechanism for the wheels is coupled to a steerable tail wheel through master and slave hydraulic cylinders in such manner that when a towing tractor turns in one direction the master cylinder moves with the turning of the front wheels and supplies hydraulic fluid pressure to the slave cylinder to operate the latter and turn the tail wheel in the direction opposite the turning direction of the front wheels. During roll-over from one operative side to the other, a lever mechanism is operated to turn the axle to correspond with the operative set of plow bottoms. Also, the plow bottoms are mounted pivotally on the plow frames and interconnected by parallel linkages for simultaneous adjustment of the lateral spacing between land sides of adjacent plow bottoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1986
    Inventor: Glen A. Watts
  • Patent number: 4326593
    Abstract: A reversible plough has a headstock formed from upper and lower parts hingedly connected about a transverse axis, the reversing spindle being mounted in the lower headstock part and carrying a crank arm connected by a link to the upper headstock part. As the reversing spindle is rotated, relative hinging movement between the two headstock parts causes the reversing spindle to tilt in a vertical plane, the load in said link counterbalancing to a degree the offset center of gravity of the plough frame and reducing the torque required to reverse the plough frame. The plough frame carries left handed and right handed plough bodies and the center of gravity of the plow frame is laterally offset from the longitudinal axis of the reversing spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1982
    Assignee: Ransomes Sims & Jefferies Limited
    Inventor: Richard J. Hawes