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7246456 |
A tool control system includes actuators to move the tool, a controller to permit either manual or automatic tool operation, and an output configured to display information pertaining to a position of the tool. In addition, the tool can ...
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7133757 |
An assembly for performing an agricultural operation, in particular crop processing. The assembly is provided with an autonomous agricultural machine that is movable over a parcel for performing the agricultural operation and with a cont...
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7032682 |
An unmanned vehicle for displacing manure in a stable or field which comprises a steering unit for steering the vehicle and a frame. Two wheels and a manure displacing blade which depend from the frame provide the entire support for the ...
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6945019 |
A compact three-bar linkage steering probe assembly, particularly useful with ultra-narrow row cotton harvester units, includes two vertical rocker arms pivotally connected to a harvester row unit at mid-point locations and upper ends co...
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6679338 |
A locating system and method for determining the location of an article relative to a crop row. The system comprises a plurality of marker means substantially linearly disposed at intervals substantially parallel to the crop row. A senso...
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6553925 |
The invention provides a method of reducing plugging of a no-till seeder with crop residue by guiding the furrow openers of the seeder between the standing stubble rows of the previous crop. A guidance system is provided comprising sensi...
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6553299 |
Real time kinematic (RTK) global positioning system (GPS) technology is integrated with precision farming methodologies to provide highly accurate seeding, cultivating, planting and/or harvesting operations. RTK GPS systems are used to c...
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6336066 |
A process for using localized agricultural data to optimize the cultivation of perennial plants, the process including: passage through a parcel of perennial plants by a farm machine; automatic production of positioning signals at severa...
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6313755 |
A downhole buried utility sensing and data transmission system for connection at the lower end of a drill string has sensors capable of detecting the existence of various different types of buried utilities and objects and making calcula...
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6169948 |
A setting device for a front control system for a construction machine includes a direct setting switch for instructing a direct teaching setting, a numeral input key consisting of up- and down-keys for instructing a numeral input settin...
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6095254 |
A device and method is disclosed for detection of cultivation boundaries or guide variables which are evaluated for an automatic steering system on agricultural machines. Electromagnetic waves emitted by a transmitter in the working dire...
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6082466 |
An apparatus and method is shown for determining the position of a rowcrop in a field being traversed by a mobile machine. The apparatus and method includes a ground penetrating radar (GPR) assembly located on the mobile machine, a proce...
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6079192 |
A row alignment system includes a plurality of row units mounted on the lift frame at the front of a harvester. One or more of the row units are transversely adjustable on the frame for alignment with the guess rows. One of the adjustabl...
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6073068 |
A site database structure for storing elevation data for access by an application program being executed on a control system on a work machine. The data is stored in a Triangular Irregular Network (TIN). The elevation of a point on the w...
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6028524 |
A system and method for monitoring the position of a motor grader blade relative to a motor grader frame. The method includes the steps of: providing an electronic controller, blade controls having position sensors, and frame controls ha...
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5704142 |
A data acquisition system for acquiring geological information from a subsurface includes a geologic imaging system that is used to survey the subsurface of a site or route. A geologic characterization unit may also be employed to enhanc...
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5509486 |
The invention described herein uses the periodicity of the relative height of the surface of a crop or soil surface that is measured over a large area to control the position of a farm vehicle as it passes between rows of crops. The rang...
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5246077 |
A horizontal guidance control system for a standard three point tractor hitch is disclosed. The system employs the use of a manual control element which actuates a pair of hydraulic cylinders contained in a pair of hydraulic adjusters. T...
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5207739 |
A guide rod assembly is mounted on the front end of a tractor with the guide rods closely adjacent the front wheels and the crop rows to transmit steering signals to a steering guidance system. The pair of guide rods pivot from a downwar...
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5203148 |
In a cotton harvester row unit, feelers on lower ends of a pendulum-type of row finder are provided with extensions which project generally at right angles to the forward direction through apertures in the row unit throat sidewall area. ...
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5181572 |
An improved apparatus (62) for on-the-go lateral adjusting of a field implement (10) is provided, and is especially useful for a pull-behind, tractor-mounted implement (10) designed to operate on or between rows (30) of a crop (32). The ...
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5156219 |
Apparatus for guiding a drawn agricultural implement of the type which has a transverse tool bar and a pull hitch. The apparatus controls the horizontal angular orientation of the tool bar relative to the pull hitch to guide the implement.
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RE34080 |
A row following guidance device connecting the right and left ends of the forward portion of a row crop implement to a tractor will adjust the length of each left and right connection as the tractor deviates laterally from alignment with...
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5148873 |
A sensor used to sense a path in a cultivated field is attached to a tractor. The sensor is stabilized to prevent the sensor from bouncing. The stabilizer may take the form of a coulter. In other cases the sensor and the stabilizer may b...
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5094300 |
An attachment accessory for an angularly adjustable agricultural implement guidance system that allows guidance of a pull-type implement thereby. A plurality of rotatable coulters which engage the ground are attached to a rigid frame whi...
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5088561 |
An agricultural implement guidance system having a sensing apparatus and sensing apparatus brackets. The sensing apparatus brackets have an offset configuration so that the brackets form a V-shape when the brackets are attached to the su...
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5040613 |
An agricultural implement guidance control system has a counterbalanced sensing wand assembly. The wand position sensing assembly is designed to compensate for the adverse effects of operations on a field which has a side slope, i.e., sl...
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5029650 |
A vertical angle adjustable quick-attaching coupler for attaching an implement to the three point hitch of a vehicle. The coupler comprises a coupler frame, attachment means for pivotally mounting the coupler to the three point hitch of ...
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4936390 |
A three-point hitch mounted in-row tiller has a conventional three-point hitch mounted frame member with an outrigger arm pivotally mounted to the frame member in a manner that accommodates pivotal movement of the outrigger in relation t...
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4802787 |
A control apparatus for a pavement breaker which includes a carriage, a lifting means for raising and lowering an impact arm which impact arm includes a tool for impacting a surface, mounted on one end and an oscillating member mounted o...
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4726175 |
A guidance control system for a harvester or like machinery includes a steering linkage operatively connected to at least one ground engaging wheel. Harvester steering is controlled through the linkage by either an operator controlled st...
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4706773 |
A system for guiding a vehicle along a pre-determined rectilinear path which comprises a vehicle having a laser fixed thereon so as to direct a laser beam along the direction of motion of the vehicle towards a target carrying beam revers...
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RE32405 |
A farming implement, particularly for row cultivation, wherein the operator device comprises a mill or harrow having substantially vertical axes or slightly inclined to the vertical, and connected to the tractor by the interposition of a...
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4531589 |
A tiller for installation at one side of a tractor, having a retractable tiller frame movable by a power mechanism which is normally actuated by a horizontal sensor arm through a linkage system. Here, there is manual override enabling th...
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4491183 |
A retractable in-row tiller device is adapted for mounting on a movable vehicle and for tilling the ground around and between objects in a row. An outrigger arm with a rotary tiller mounted on its distal end is retracted inwardly and ext...
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4463811 |
A guidance system for use with tractor-mounted row crop cultivators and similar implements includes a pair of independent furrow followers mounted one behind the other on the implement for sensing implement position relative to a preesta...
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4414903 |
An improvement in furrow followers of a type adapted for connection to an automatic steering mechanism for causing a vehicle to selectively follow a furrow is disclosed. The improvement provides a first and a second probe unit which are ...
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4384618 |
An automatically retracting tiller for installation at one or both sides of a tractor. A stationary frame is adapted to be secured to a side frame attachment of the tractor. A gimbal frame is pivoted to the stationary frame by a stationa...
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4353421 |
A soil preparing device for preparing forest soil to a planting bed. The device comprises a frame intended to be mounted on a forest tractor, a support arm mounted on the frame pivotally around a horizontal link, and a preparing element ...
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4341268 |
A plough for working between rows in a plantation comprises a chassis with pivotally-mounted, laterally-movable members having arms to carry earth-working tools. Movably connected to the chassis are curved sensors to contact the plants i...
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4158390 |
A farming implement, particularly for row cultivation, wherein the operator device comprises a mill or harrow having substantially vertical axes or slightly inclined to the vertical, and connected to the tractor by the interposition of a...
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4077488 |
A guidance assist system is mounted on an agricultural machine for directing the lateral movement thereof with respect to the severed edge of the crop material being harvested thereby. The crop, including the severed edge, is periodicall...
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3931774 |
This invention provides a planting apparatus which includes a mobile frame mounted on wheels or the like and adapted to be towed over the ground. An arm is swingably mounted to the frame and extends rearwardly from the mounting location....
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3913681 |
An outrigged rotating cultivator is attached to a tractor for cultivating an orchard or vineyard in the interstitial unplanted soil area between trees or vines planted in rows. The cultivator is mounted to a tractor by a three-point free...
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3903969 |
Clamping and releasing device for agriculteral machines having a set of rotary tools for soil works, carried on at least one support capable of being rotated by the dynamic torque resulting from the rotation of the tools inserted in the ...
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3860906 |
The invention relates to a self-propelled movable direction marker device for guiding the path of a machine movable relative thereto, the device comprising a body provided with means enabling it to be moved over the ground, a marker or i...
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3604513 |
A tractor-mounted soil-cultivating implement of the type in which a cultivating element is movable from a retracted or nonworking position to a working position by operation of an hydraulic ram. The ram is supplied with hydraulic fluid f...
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3583514 |
An automatic guidance system for farm tractors including a first sensing device for sensing plowed as contrasted with unplowed land, a second sensing device for sensing unplowed land as contrasted with plowed land and spaced from the fir...
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3540778 |
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