Abstract: This invention provides a double adjustable weeding disk support device in order to make rapid and positive adjustments of the depth and cut of the weeding disks. This invention is characterized by a shaft having conventional weeding disks rotatably mounted on the lower end and a series of openings near the other end. The shaft projects upward through openings in the frame crossbar of a conventional cultivator, through an opening in a plate mounted in rigid relationship with the frame crossbar and through the collar mounted on an adjustment arm with the shaft being fixed by means of bolt through opposite openings in the collar and through an opening in the shaft. The adjustable arm can be held in fixed relationship with the fixed plate by inserting a bolt through mating openings in the adjustment arm and in the plate.

Abstract: A disc ridger having an arrangement of disc gangs that substantially eliminates sidewise draft or clogging tendencies found in previous disc ridgers, also incorporating additional discs located for completing the tillage of the area swept by the disc ridger is described.

Abstract: A debris and soil shaver for no till farming is disclosed which has a disk-like member which floats up and down as it is pulled across the ground surface. The disk is angled with respect to a predetermined direction of travel of an agricultural apparatus which is adapted to pull the shaver. The disk is rotatably mounted to a first support member about a central transverse disk axis. The first support member is pivotally mounted to a vertical second support member about a pivot axis. The pivot axis and central transverse axis are angled with respect to one another. The second support member is clamped to the agricultural apparatus which pulls the shaver. With such a construction, pivotal movement of the first support member about the pivot axis causes the angle of the disk relative to the ground surface to change. The angle adjusting prevents the disk from engaging too much soil and allows the disk to seek a path of least resistance as it rolls across a planting field.

Abstract: A row crop cultivator for use in farming which includes a pair of weeding disks associated with each cultivator unit of which a plurality is ganged together in series. Each weeding disk is bearingly supported by a vertical shaft which is received by a cross bar in a manner which permits the shaft associated with the weeding disk to be adjusted as to depth and angular orientation. Such changes in the vertical shaft for the weeding disks are directly transferred to the weeding disk itself. Disposed adjacent the uppermost point of the shaft is a degree gauge plate and adjacent thereto is a depth gauge structured out of angle iron. As the farmer makes adjustments as to angular orientation and depth of one weeding disk, he need not be concerned with the specific values until the optimum depth and angular orientation have been found for the particular field being cultivated.

Abstract: A row crop cultivator for use in farming which includes a pair of weeding disks associated with each cultivator unit of which a plurality is ganged together in series. Each weeding disk is bearingly supported by a vertical shaft which is received by a cross bar in a manner which permits the shaft associated with the weeding disk to be adjusted as to depth and angular orientation. Such changes in the vertical shaft for the weeding disks are directly transferred to the weeding disk itself. Disposed adjacent the uppermost point of the shaft is a degree gauge plate and adjacent thereto is a depth gauge structured out of angle iron. The vertex edge of the depth gauge serves as a pointer for the graduations on the degree gauge plate, while the top surface of the degree guage plate serves as a pointer or alignment marker for the graduations on the depth gauge.

Abstract: A disk grading terrace plow comprising a plurality of disk units mounted below an angled beam frame which is towed at an angle of 40 to 45 degrees to the direction of tow via a tractor connected to an elevated hitch beam mounted to the said angle beam frame in a lateral position which balances draft torques. Alignment of the said disk units, each comprising a disk blade, shank and attachment structure, along the angled beam frame is such that dirt is excavated from a furrow and discharged both vertically and laterally in front of the next sequential rearward disk. The excavated dirt then continues to shift from disk-to-disk in a compound grading manner until all the dirt is shifted around the rearmost disk blade. The depth of cut for the disk grading terrace plow is controlled by adjusting hydraulic cylinders connected to a front and rear gauge wheel, respectively.

Abstract: A trash farming implement is provided with a plurality of tillage assemblies on an implement, each tillage assembly having a tillage disc arranged to rotate about an axis which is inclined slightly from the vertical both in end elevation and in side elevation so that it slopes upwardly and forwardly in the direction of travel, and also a soil replacing disc which has an axis of rotation which is nearly horizontal but slopes upwardly towards the tillage disc to which it is adjacent, the disc being so located that a furrow cut by the tillage disc will be filled by replacement of the lifted soil to its original position.

Abstract: An attachment for a minimum tillage planter which is mounted forwardly of the planting shoe for removing residue from in front of such planting apparatus for the purpose of allowing consistency in the making of a trench and for the depositing of seeds therein in a consistent manner. The attachment generally includes a first center flat disc having a circular structure attached thereto for controlling the depth at which the planter rides above the ground. A pair of additional discs are mounted on each side of the depth control structure and on each side of the center flat disc. These additional discs are convex on the side adjacent to the first disc and concave on the other side thereof. The position of the additional discs are such that they do not extend into the ground as far as the first disc whereby the first disc will hold residue, such as a corn stalk, while the other discs which are higher will cut the residue off and then throw it to one side or the other.

Abstract: A seed drill apparatus comprising at least two complementary rotatable seed discs journalled in tandem relation whereby one of the discs is a leading disc and the other of the discs is a trailing disc. The plane of each disc is canted with respect to the direction of travel for the apparatus, with the plane of the leading disc being of an orientation opposed with respect to the orientation of the plane of the trailing disc. The canted position of the seed discs creates a combined plowing and grooving action for the disc as the apparatus moves over the surface of the ground, thus opening and widening an efficient seed receiving groove in the ground regardless of whether or not the ground has been prepared by plowing, or the like.

Abstract: For cutting the roots of weeds in agricultural fields, rolling knives in the form of flat, circular plates with sharp, peripheral edges are journaled to struts connected to a tool bar drafted in a direction of draft. The knives rotate about knife axes that are normal to knife planes containing their sharp edge. All knife axes are about 45.degree. from vertical. For bedded fields, the rolling knives are preferably connected to the tool bar in knife sets of two for each soil bed, with the knives of each set engaging opposite sides of each bed. As the rolling knives roll within the soil, their sharp edges sever the roots of weeds. In an alternate embodiment, a vertical stabilizer plate is rolled opposite each rolling knife to stabilize the soil therebetween. In another embodiment, each strut includes a hinge that has a hinge axis substantially within the knife plane. The knives swing about the hinge axes and trail in the direction of draft following the path of least resistance through the soil.

Abstract: A double disc attachment for farm implements operating to present a debris-cleared area ahead of the furrow opener of the implement, has a peripherally notched disc with one of the discs spaced from and leading the other. Each disc is rotatably carried by its own independent, rearwardly-extending bracket, and each bracket has its own independent, vertically extensible support, with the supports and the brackets laterally spaced. In two embodiments the supports are disposed entirely behind the discs, and in all forms each support is adjustably secured to its own independent means for separate mounting of its disc unit on the implement. The mounts are also laterally spaced, and in one form the discs are located between the brackets.

Abstract: A disk harrow has a frame adapted to be pulled along the ground in a normal travel direction and having at least one frame member, a mount on this frame adapted to secure same to a three-point tractor hitch, and a plurality of disk assemblies. Each of these disk assemblies in turn includes an inner pivot part fixed on the frame and forming lower, middle, and upper horizontal axes transverse to said direction, an outer pivot part spaced in the normal travel direction from the inner part and having respective lower, middle, and upper horizontal axes transverse to the travel direction. Respective rigid lower and middle links are pivoted on the parts between the respective lower and middle axes with the middle link shorter than the lower link. An upper leaf spring is pivoted on the parts between the upper axes, and a harrow disk is rotatable about a harrow axis transverse to the travel direction on the outer pivot part below the respective axes.

Abstract: A farm implement adapted to be coupled to the front of conventional tractors for pre-cutting or scalping old levees. A rigid, box-like frame is secured generally transversely upon the front of the tractor. The frame supports an elongated, rigid channel mount extending generally perpendicularly with respect thereto. An elongated, rigid stanchion may be coupled to the channel mount to elevate a first hydraulic cylinder attachment point at a desired elevation above ground. A plow assembly includes a pair of rotatable, angularly disposed forwardly projecting cutting discs rotatably secured to a central frame, and an elongated rigidly upwardly extending strut terminating at its top in a second point for connection with a hydraulic cylinder. Rigid strut guide means are secured about the channel mount at a desired elevation, sandwiching the stanchion therewithin.

Abstract: A double disc, debris-clearing assembly has a suspension member for releasable attachment to a farm implement and on which is rigidly secured an upright standard. A guide rigid to and depending from the suspension member beneath the standard has a tiltable channel element releasably mounted thereon and provided with an upwardly-extending strap for varying its height along the guide. An adjustable connection is utilized between the strap and the standard. A pair of interconnected brackets carried by the channel element are provided with disc mounts which may, in turn, be adjusted to vary the positions of the discs relative to each other and to their brackets. Accordingly, the suspension member, the standard, the guide, the strap and the channel element are common to the bracket unit and, therefore, the discs.

Abstract: Seed drill (FIG. 2) having share disks 10, and press wheels 27 which determine the depth of penetration of the disks. Runners 13 and disposed on the outer sides of the disks for enabling the soil particles or cohering pieces of soil lifted by the disks to fall back unturned into the seed furrows produced by the disks.

Abstract: A seed drill having single-disk furrow openers 6 set at an acute angle .alpha. to the direction of travel. The total number of furrow-opener disks is divisible by four, and one half of the furrow-opener disks in each transverse row are set at the acute angle (.alpha.) relative to the direction of travel which is directed to one side, and the half are set at an angle .alpha. which is directed to the other side.

Abstract: A row marker featuring tandem cutting discs, each with convex and concave surfaces, which are disposed to present the convex surfaces to opposite sides of a cutting line. The disc's cutting edges are rotatably adjustable, either individually or as a pair, whereby they can be rotated to widen or narrow the furrow if desired. The cutting edges are set to cut along the same line or overlap slightly at their deepest points. The trailing disc cuts the earth to a deeper point than the lead disc. The depth of the marker furrow can be varied by adjusting a forwardly disposed ground wheel. An extension arm connects the tandem cutting discs to a planter at a selected distance to provide the precise location of the marker furrow. An adjustable joint allows realignment of the cutting edges to insure contact with the soil in a true vertical position when extension arm length is altered.

Abstract: A double disc attachment for planters, operating to present a debris-cleared area ahead of the furrow opener of the planter, has one of the discs peripherally fluted so that the discs cooperate in their debris-clearing function rather than work in opposition to one another. The fluting permits lateral displacement by the other disc of debris which might otherwise be contacted simultaneously by the soil-penetrating cutter disc and left lying across the path of the oncoming furrow opener. The discs are properly oriented insofar as tilt, spacing, convergence, relative overlapping and lead are concerned, with at least certain of such relative positioning and depth being adjustable to accommodate for various conditions.

Abstract: A plowing implement is disclosed for following and filling wheel tracks created, for example, behind a pair of sprinkler wheel tires, particularly arrangements in which each tire repeatedly traverses the same fixed path. When the track created by the tire is filled with earth by the device of the present invention, plowing or harvesting equipment can cross the path travelled by the wheels without the inconvenience of traversing rough or uneven ruts or tracks which would otherwise be the result.

Abstract: A cultivator comprises a handle at one end of which is a plurality of dished discs, the dishing of the discs being opposed about a center point. The shaft on which the discs are mounted is bent through an angle at substantially a mid point such that by running the discs through soil, the discs cultivate the soil. The discs are mounted in two groups of two discs each. The groups are separated from each other by a curved spacer mounted on the shaft over the angled portion thereof.

Abstract: A pair of laterally spaced plow discs are supported by a framework which is mounted resiliently adjacent each pair of support wheels of a center pivot irrigation system in position to engage the laterally spaced mounds of earth produced as the wheels form a depressed annular track in the soil during rotation of the irrigation system, the plow discs being disposed adjustably to direct the mounded earth back into the track and thereby level the ground.

Abstract: Disclosed is a farm implement for incorporating chemicals sprayed on top of soil into a predetermined depth of the soil. The incorporator implement consists of a frame adapted to be suspended on a three point suspension mechanism of a tractor and two gangs of ground driven incorporator spiders, one in front of another. Each gang includes a forward row and a rearward row of the spiders with the forward row angled acutely to one side of the direction of travel of the implement and the rearward row angled acutely to the opposite side. In a second form we utilize gangs of incorporator spiders for post emergence chemical incorporation by arranging the incorporator spiders to work between the rows of plants and providing shield troughs for the plants. In a third form we utilize gangs of incorporator spiders disposed normal to the sloped banks of a narrow, single row, plant bed for post emergence incorporation.

Abstract: A cultivator apparatus attached to a draw bar hitched to a tractor and having a tool bar attached to the draw bar and movable therewith. A cultivating mechanism is attached to the tool bar and is movable between positions of engagement and disengagement with the ground when the tool bar is moved. A plurality of cultivating units comprise the cultivating mechanism and are independently movable about the tool bar. A lateral support mechanism is comprised of gauge wheels mounted intermediate the ends of each of the cultivating units. Each gauge wheel is laterally offset with respect to the cultivating unit to which it is attached.