Abstract: The cannabis de-budding machine comprises a vertical plate, a roller, and a motor. The cannabis de-budding machine may be operable to separate a stem of a cannabis plant from flowers, buds, and leaves by pulling the stem through a stem slot located on the vertical plate. The roller may be adapted to assist in pulling the stem through the vertical plate when the roller is rotated by the motor. The stem may be pulled through the stem slot to a near side of the vertical plate leaving the flowers, buds, and leaves on a far side of the vertical plate.

Abstract: A method and device for harvesting plants belonging to the family of hemp plants (Cannabaceae), in particular of the genus Hemp, with which the harvesting and separation of the individual plant parts is made possible without damaging the individual plant parts. In particular, during harvesting, the hemp stems are pulled downwards by a pair of rollers and the flowers are pulled backwards through a chain gap, whereby the flowers are stripped from the stems.

Abstract: A method for the production of expanded polymeric materials; in particular for producing thermally insulating materials used in refrigerators. The method comprising the steps of providing a mixture of reagents based on isocyanate and polyol with the addition of expandable polystyrene-based microspheres, in which method the ratio by weight between the reagents and the expandable microspheres is between, about 7:1 and about 1:2.

Abstract: Four (4) methods to reduce stalk shear in a corn head row unit utilize a non-variable or dependent drive system. The four methods described include altering the gearbox ratio, increasing the lengths of the fluted portion of the stalk roll, increasing stalk roll diameter or reducing the size of the gathering chain drive sprocket. This novel idea provides an apparatus and method to which genetically improved taller and healthier corn plants can be harvested with minimal amounts of material other than ears ultimately being transferred to the threshing unit.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of expanded or expandable polyolefin beads by impregnating polyolefin granules with a volatile blowing agent in suspension under pressure. As suspension aid, use is made of a mixture of a water-insoluble inorganic compound and a surfactant, and the impregnation is carried out in the presence of a surface-active polymer carrying carboxyl or carboxylate groups.

Abstract: The invention relates to a machine which is pulled or attached to a three-point attachment on a tractor and used for the harvesting of corn or similar stalk-like crops. The machine has a cutting device and a chopping blower arranged subsequent thereto with slide-in rollers to which the crop is supplied by a cross-conveyor running transversely to the direction of travel of the tractor. The cross-conveyor is designed as a cutting and supplying device, cutting the crop at any point in the working area, holding it above the cut area and supplying it in an approximately upright or inclined position, opposite to the conveying direction, to the slide-in rollers or a chopping machine with simultaneous release.

Abstract: A sugar cane harvester having at its front end a topper section for cutting off the tops of the cane stalks and upper and lower sets of cane gathering arms which gather up the cane and bring it into the harvester for harvesting at its base and topping at its top. The topper section is carried on a vertically moveable base riding on vertical tracks for varying the height of the topping cuts, to which base is also pivotally connected the harvester ends of the upper set of cane gathering arms, thus interconnecting the topper cutter entry or harvester ends of the upper arms and the topper section for combined movement together. Variable length, telescoping bracing arms are pivotally connected between the left, upper and lower arms and the right, upper and lower arms, respectively, to provide stabilizing bracing to the upper sets of arms when they are vertically varied with the topper section.