Mounted On Crank Shaft Patents (Class 460/89)
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Patent number: 10499556Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing harvested miscanthus or other rhizomes to condition them for replanting to grow miscanthus plants. Quantities of clusters of rhizomes are supplied to a first inclined ramp conveyor, the clusters of rhizomes are caught on a mechanism that pushes the clusters of rhizomes to a location where the clusters of rhizomes encounter obstructers that cooperate with the mechanism to cut and reduce the size of the clusters. The reduced size clusters are vibrated to loosen and separate soil from the reduced size cluster of rhizomes, washed to wash dirt from the clusters, and collected for supply to a planter.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: AGGROW TECH, LLCInventors: Michael Edward Fulghum, Thomas Logan Fazio
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Patent number: 10010022Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing harvested miscanthus or other rhizomes to condition them for replanting to grow miscanthus plants Quantities of clusters of rhizomes are supplied to a first inclined ramp conveyor, the clusters of rhizomes are caught on a mechanism that pushes the clusters of rhizomes to a location where the clusters of rhizomes encounter obstructers that cooperate with the mechanism to cut and reduce the size of the clusters. The reduced size clusters are vibrated to loosen and separate soil from the reduced size cluster of rhizomes, washed to wash dirt from the clusters, and collected for supply to a planter.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: AGgrow Tech, LLCInventors: Michael Edward Fulghum, Thomas Logan Fazio
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Patent number: 9743577Abstract: An apparatus for planting rhizomes includes a chassis having wheels to move in a primary direction over an area in which rhizomes are to be planted, the primary direction defining a forward and aft sense, a hopper on the chassis holds rhizomes to be planted, the hopper having a live bottom mounted to move rhizomes in the forward direction, a kickback bar at a forward side of the hopper lifts rhizomes at a forward face of the hopper, a leveling roller above the live bottom levels the height of rhizomes transported by the live bottom forward of the hopper, a barrel feed at a forward end of the live bottom to pull rhizomes from the live bottom, a accumulator below the barrel feed, a drop zone below the accumulator, and a chute with inner flaps from the drop zone oriented to deposit rhizomes in a furrow.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: AGgrow Tech, LLCInventors: Michael Edward Fulghum, Thomas Logan Fazio, Curtis Jon Spell, Tommy Lynn Sawyer, William Travis Hedrick
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Patent number: 9532500Abstract: An apparatus for harvesting rhizomes includes a chassis to move in a field. Coulter disks mounted on a forward end of the chassis break up soil on a top surface of the field. Digger blades aft of the coulter disks scoop clusters of rhizomes from the field with adhered soil. An inclined ramp on the chassis has a live bottom that pushes the rhizome clusters up the ramp in the aft direction including upright posts that force the clusters of rhizomes against depending obstructers extending downward from superstructure bars toward the live bottom. As the clusters encounter the obstructers, the clusters are broken to reduce their size and to loosen and separate soil from the rhizomes. A collector aft of the live bottom collects rhizomes falling from an aft end of the inclined ramp.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Repreve Renewables, LLCInventors: Michael Edward Fulghum, Thomas Logan Fazio, William Travis Hedrick
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Patent number: 9491899Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing harvested miscanthus or other rhizomes to condition them for replanting to grow new miscanthus plants are disclosed. Bulk quantities of clusters of rhizomes are supplied to a first inclined ramp conveyor, the clusters of rhizomes are caught on a mechanism that pushes the clusters of rhizomes to a location where the clusters of rhizomes encounter obstructers that cooperate with the mechanism to cut and reduce the size of the clusters. The reduced size clusters are vibrated to loosen and separate soil from the reduced size cluster of rhizomes, washed to wash dirt from the clusters, and collected for supply to a planter.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2014Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: Repreve Renewables, Inc.Inventors: Michael Edward Fulghum, Thomas Logan Fazio
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Patent number: 9456550Abstract: A threshing and separating device comprises a first threshing and separating mechanism, a second threshing and separating mechanism, and an intermediate feeding mechanism therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2015Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: John Deere (Tianjin) Co. LtdInventors: Benjamin C. Suen, Yibin Zhuang, Junbang Li, Fengbin Pang, Yanpeng Han, Hongyuan Wang, Xiubing Pang, Baohuan Zhen
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Patent number: 9392740Abstract: An apparatus for planting rhizomes includes a chassis having wheels to move in a primary direction over an area in which rhizomes are to be planted, the primary direction defining a forward and aft sense, a hopper on the chassis holds rhizomes to be planted, the hopper having a live bottom mounted to move rhizomes in the forward direction, a kickback bar at a forward side of the hopper lifts rhizomes at a forward face of the hopper, a leveling roller above the live bottom levels the height of rhizomes transported by the live bottom forward of the hopper, a barrel feed at a forward end of the live bottom to pull rhizomes from the live bottom, a accumulator below the barrel feed, a drop zone below the accumulator, and a chute with inner flaps from the drop zone oriented to deposit rhizomes in a furrow.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2014Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Repreve Rënewables, Inc.Inventors: Michael Edward Fulghum, Thomas Logan Fazio, Curtis Jon Spell, Tommy Lynn Sawyer, William Travis Hedrick
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Patent number: 5899808Abstract: A self-propelling harvester thresher has a threshing unit, a hurdle shaking unit located after the threshing unit, a crankshaft, a plurality of transporting prongs which are drivingly controlled by the crankshaft and arranged above the hurdle shaking unit, a rake associated with the transporting prongs and including a plurality of individual passively turnable fingers arranged at a distance from one another so that the transporting prongs pass during an operation between the fingers, and a structure for drivingly positively controlling a turning movement of the fingers.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 1997Date of Patent: May 4, 1999Assignee: Claas KGaAInventor: Franz Stein