Abstract: An earth grooming device for attachment to a vehicle includes a rectangular frame having a plurality of teeth secured to the front thereof to form a rake and a scraper blade secured to the rear of the frame. A side rail is attached to each side of the frame with each side rail having a bottom edge tapered forwardly and upwardly beginning from a point intermediate both ends of the side rail where a bottom edge of the scraper blade is positioned and tapered rearwardly and upwardly from the point to form a fulcrum about which the side rail pivots. A pair of rear wheels are mounted adjacent the ends of the side rail and a pair of adjustable wheels are mounted intermediate of the frame. Actuator means are also provided for adjusting a height of the pair of adjustable wheels relative to the frame.
Abstract: An all electric riding bunker rake primarily suited for maintaining sand traps, or bunkers on a golf course. It is embodied as a tricycle-style vehicle having a frame supported on three wheels, an electrically actuated rake lifting mechanism at the rear of the vehicle supported by the frame, and a removable rake attachment connected to the rake lifting mechanism. The rake is dragged on the sand behind the vehicle to smooth the sand in a bunker. An electric motor drives the rear wheels through a gear box, and a regenerative type braking system works in conjunction with the electric motor to slow the vehicle whenever it exceeds eleven miles per hour when driven, or two miles an hour when unattended. The frame supports an onboard electrical battery power source and a hood to which a seat is attached on which the operator sits to control the operation of the vehicle and the rake lifting and lowering function.
Abstract: A flexible spike-tooth harrow having a plurality of tooth-supporting angles spaced fore-and-aft by connecting structure including reversible link straps having opposed edge surfaces on one end thereof tapered with respect to the axis of the strap at differing angles. A selected one of the edges is positioned against the top side of the angle to maintain the spikes in a preselected working attitude. By simply reversing the strap with respect to its longitudinal axis, the working angle of the spikes can be changed.
Abstract: An auxiliary implement mount which utilizes a triangular shape for attaching to a variety of shapes and sizes of tool bars of a first implement in a variety of positions.A rod is pivotally attached by a pin through one of a series of holes arranged in a triangle configuration on a plate to the mount at one end thereof and to an auxiliary implement at the other end thereof. The rod is laterally stabilized by a bracket with a spring inside for exerting downward pressure and allowing vertical movement. The auxiliary implement is attached to the rod's other end by a wedge-shaped plate that utilizes a collar on the rod to tilt the implement at a desired angle to the ground.
Abstract: The device includes (i) a supporting frame for connection to a draft source, this frame having a plurality of laterally positioned rigid supporting sections each hinged to its laterally adjacent section; (ii) a plurality of working sections corresponding to the respective supporting sections, the working sections each comprising (a) tandemly positioned transverse harrow bars secured together for independent vertical and pivotal motion with respect to each other, and (b) downwardly disposed harrow teeth secured to the harrow bars; and (iii) connectors flexibly securing the working sections to their corresponding supporting sections so that when in harrowing position a working section underlies its supporting section. At least one of the outboard supporting sections together with its working section can be rotated as a unit around a longitudinal axis between prone and upstanding positions.
Abstract: An implement has a forward structure that supports a fluid distribution system including soil penetrating tools, such as hoe bodies of freely rotatable tine groups through which fluid is ditributed across a broad path. The supporting structure is connectable to a three point tractor hitch and linked to a cultivator frame by a forward parallelogram linkage. The cultivator frame supports a row of driven soilworking rotors and to the rear of the rotors, a wheeled seeder device is mounted on a parallelogram structure so that it can move vertically independently of the supportng structure or cultivator frame. A further, rear parallelogram structure interconnects the rear of the first mentioned parallelogram structure to supporting ground wheels and a hydraulic cylinder is positioned above the rear structure to lift the seeder for transport. A stop is associated with the parallelogram structures to limit their relative movements.
Abstract: A trailing floating mount for agricultural finish tools is connected to the wheeled frame of an implement carriage and includes an elongated, longitudinally oriented finish tool draw bar attached to the carriage by a double-stop bracket which allows the bar freedom to pivot in a vertical plane through an angle sufficient to follow ground contours but limited so that when the implement frame is raised for transport, the draw bar, with the finish tools attached, is also raised but prevented from folding into the implement carriage or tools.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 23, 1975
Date of Patent:
June 14, 1977
Assignee:
Kent Manufacturing Co. Inc.
Inventors:
Calvin B. Blair, Lee J. Brinker, Thomas W. Ankenman