Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
056006000 | GANG | 33 |
20090133372 | AGRICULTURAL MOWER COMPRISING A CARRYING VEHICLE AND SEVERAL WORK UNITS - An agricultural machine including a carrying vehicle and plural work units configured to cut a standing product. The agricultural machine includes at least two front work units arranged, during work and viewed in a direction of forward travel of the carrying vehicle, at the front of the carrying vehicle, and at least two lateral work units arranged, during work, on either side of a work area of the front work units. The front work units and the lateral work units can advantageously be moved with respect to the carrying vehicle to occupy a transport position or a work position. | 05-28-2009 |
20090158699 | Modular Rotary Cutterbar - A modular rotary cutter bed is formed by a series of essentially identical cutter modules mounted end-to-end along the length of a common support beam. Guards for the cutters of the modules are arranged such that each guard overlaps and bridges the seam between an adjacent pair of modules so as to increase the structural rigidity of the cutter bed. Each guard is attached at its front end to the noses of a pair of adjacent modules and at its rear end to the support beam to increase structural integrity in all directions. A second embodiment does not utilize a common support beam for the modules but instead relies upon the interconnections between adjacent modules and bridging overlap of the guards to rigidify the cutter bed. | 06-25-2009 |
20090249757 | CUTTERBAR PTO COVER AND FILLER - A cutterbar drive mechanism cover for use in a specialty crop harvesting header to optimally direct severed crop material from the cutterbar to a crop conveying apparatus which then laterally converges the crop material from outboard ends of the cutting header toward an interior discharge zone for formation of a windrow or for further processing. Crop flow smoothing by the drive cover also reduces disturbances to the crop material during movement within the header which reduces seed loss in seed-bearing specialty crops. | 10-08-2009 |
20100300055 | Wide-span mowing device - A wide-span lawn mowing mechanism includes a chassis assembly having a front tube element, a rear tube element, and a plurality of cross tubes connecting the front tube element to the rear tube element. A plurality of rotary cutting heads are suspended from the chassis assembly. A power source is included for imparting rotary motion to the cutting heads. A selectively actuatable drive system operatively connects the cutting heads to the power source. | 12-02-2010 |
20110173940 | DISC MOWER WITH FOLDING WING FRAME - A movable frame for connection to a prime mover that supports multiple individual similar implements in a manner similar to the manner each would be singly connected in a trail-behind implement pulled by a prime mover, but maintains relative positioning between the implements sufficiently to enable the multiple implements to function as a single, larger implement. The frame allows individual implements to be positioned generally transversely in an operating position for travel in a first direction providing maximum operating width, and generally longitudinally in a transport position for travel in a direction opposite to the first direction in which the overall with of the implements on the frame is minimized to three meters or less. | 07-21-2011 |
20120055128 | EXTENSION LAWNMOWER SYSTEMS - A lawn mower system comprising a wheeled push lawn mower primary cutting deck having auxiliary pivotably attached secondary cutting decks attached thereto. The device powered by a motor that may be electric or an internal combustion engine which provides power to operate blade(s) in a horizontal rotary cutting motion. The cutting blades may be attached to the motor via connector shaft(s) and pulley(s) and may be simultaneously driven with a belt system to cut various widths of lawn. The auxiliary pivotably attached right and left secondary cutting decks are vertically rotatable into downward positions for single, double, or triple wide cutting widths to cut small to very large lawns. The lawn mower system may be stored in a wings-up efficient manner. | 03-08-2012 |
20120060458 | AGRICULTURAL MOWER COMPRISING A CARRYING VEHICLE AND SEVERAL WORK UNITS - An agricultural machine including a carrying vehicle and plural work units configured to cut a standing product. The agricultural machine includes at least two front work units arranged, during work and viewed in a direction of forward travel of the carrying vehicle, at the front of the carrying vehicle, and at least two lateral work units arranged, during work, on either side of a work area of the front work units. The front work units and the lateral work units can advantageously be moved with respect to the carrying vehicle to occupy a transport position or a work position. | 03-15-2012 |
20120060459 | AGRICULTURAL MOWER COMPRISING A CARRYING VEHICLE AND SEVERAL WORK UNITS - An agricultural machine including a carrying vehicle and plural work units configured to cut a standing product. The agricultural machine includes at least two front work units arranged, during work and viewed in a direction of forward travel of the carrying vehicle, at the front of the carrying vehicle, and at least two lateral work units arranged, during work, on either side of a work area of the front work units. The front work units and the lateral work units can advantageously be moved with respect to the carrying vehicle to occupy a transport position or a work position. | 03-15-2012 |
20120285133 | MOWER DEVICE - A farm implement configured to be releasibly coupled to a tractor equipped with a rearwardly oriented power take of device. The farm implement includes a central frame; at least two forward crop engaging arms mounted on the frame that extend outward from a central axis to a first width; and at least two crop rearward engaging arms mounted on the frame. The rearward crop engaging arms extend outward from a central axis to a second width; A plurality of crop engaging members are positioned on each of the forward and rearward crop engaging arms. The implement also includes a power transmission mechanism operatively connected to the forward crop and rearward engaging arms and engageable with the power take off apparatus on the associated tractor. | 11-15-2012 |
20130042590 | Mower for Mowing Around Fence and Railing Posts - A mower assembly is provided for cutting around a post. A support structure supports the mower assembly in cantilever fashion. The mower assembly includes a plurality of mower units with each mower unit having a rotary blade. Two or more mower units cooperate to engage and cut around a post and, during the process, the entire mower assembly rotates about an axis enabling the mower units to encircle and efficiently cut grass and other vegetation about the post. | 02-21-2013 |
20130145736 | MOWER DECK - A mower deck having a first mower unit and a second mower unit. The second mower unit is fastened on the first mower unit a double joint arrangement so the second mower unit can swing upwards. | 06-13-2013 |
20140260147 | ROTARY PLANT HEDGER - A novel commercial mechanical plant hedger is disclosed. This hedger is capable of trimming multiple cutting planes—top, left, and right simultaneously. Stated different three (3) sides of a row of a hedge can be trimmed at the same time. More specifically, the hedger can simultaneously cut the top of and both sides of the plant rows simultaneously. Hedging debris from the plant is also removed. The hedger is also capable of hedging multi rows from single drive middle up to 12 feet on centers. A small tractor with minimum horsepower is capable of running the hedger. | 09-18-2014 |
20150059307 | ARTICULATED HARVESTING HEAD LOAD SENSOR ARRANGEMENT - An articulated harvesting head load sensor arrangement is provided that includes two harvesting head sections ( | 03-05-2015 |
20150135669 | Mower for Mowing Around Fence and Railing Posts - A mower assembly is provided for cutting around a post. A support structure supports the mower assembly in cantilever fashion. The mower assembly includes a plurality of mower units with each mower unit having a rotary blade. Two or more mower units cooperate to engage and cut around a post and, during the process, the entire mower assembly rotates about an axis enabling the mower units to encircle and efficiently cut grass and other vegetation about the post. | 05-21-2015 |
20160014959 | SELF-PROPELLED MOWER - A self-propelled mower includes a mover main body; a battery, an electric generator, or an engine; a protruding wing that protrudes sideward, the protruding wing being retractable and an extension length of the protruding wing being variable; mowing units protruding from a front face of the mover main body and a front face of the protruding wing, each including a movable blade that reciprocates or rotates to cut grasses driven by an electric motor or the engine, the electric motor being powered by battery or the electric generator. The mover main body moves on a slope face while being towed, via a traction rope, by a straddle-type mover body that moves straddling on a guard rail installed on top of a slope of a bank; or moves on the ground or in the air while being suspended by a suspension rope hung from a spanning cable spanning in the air. | 01-21-2016 |
20160100523 | CONTOUR FOLLOWING MOWING MODULE - A contour following mowing apparatus and associated methods are described that include a mower platform. A rotational coupling can be configured to couple to a motor, wherein the rotational coupling includes a fixed portion and a rotatable portion, and the fixed portion of the rotational coupling is attached to the mower platform. A shaft can be operably coupled to the rotatable portion of the rotational coupling, wherein the rotational coupling is configured to rotate the shaft, and the shaft is configured to translate axially from a first location to a second location with respect to the rotational coupling. A blade can be coupled to the shaft and positioned outwardly from the shaft, wherein the blade includes a cutting edge. In one example, the elements above can be included in a mowing module that is coupled to the mower platform with at least one fastener. | 04-14-2016 |
20160150717 | MOWING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A MOWING DEVICE | 06-02-2016 |
20160157425 | MOWER - A plain mower includes a plurality of rotary cutters for cutting a crop and a swathing unit for forming the cut crop material into a swath. The swathing unit includes an auger that rotates about an axis to transport crop material axially through the swathing unit. The swathing unit can be configured in a first configuration in which the crop material is ejected axially from the auger, and can be reconfigured in a second configuration in which the crop material is ejected radially from the auger. | 06-09-2016 |
20160192584 | Cutting Head Array For Mowing Pivotally | 07-07-2016 |
056007000 | Rotating cutting reel | 14 |
20080196371 | Electrically Driven, Reel-Mower Accessories - Real-mower accessories according to the present teachings are electrically driven. The electrically powered accessories use electric motors that can be operated independently of the transport wheels of the mower. Electrically powered accessories can use the on-board power source of the mower to which it is attached along with the control assembly thereon. The electrically powered accessories enable rotational rates and direction of rotation of the components of the electrically powered accessories to be easily adjusted and changed independently of other components of the mower. The electrically powered accessories can provide a more efficiently powered accessory. The electrically powered accessories can allow a user to independently verify the speed and direction of the electrically powered accessory relative to the other electrically powered accessories or other electrically driven components of the mower. | 08-21-2008 |
20090031685 | Apparatus Preferably for Horticulture and/or Parks - The present invention relates to an apparatus ( | 02-05-2009 |
20090100816 | ROLLER CONFIGURATION HAVING REDUCED OVERLAP FOR A GRASS MOWING MACHINE - A roller configuration for a grass mowing machine is provided to reduce roller overlap marks. The roller configuration may be used on a grass mowing machine having a first row of cutting units and a second row of cutting units. Each cutting unit has a roller with a reduced diameter portion adjacent a full diameter end portion. The full diameter end portions of the rollers on the first row of cutting units are aligned with the reduced diameter portions of the rollers on the second row of cutting units during mowing operations, and the reduced diameter portions of the rollers on the first row of cutting units aligned with the full diameter end portions of the rollers on the second row of cutting units during mowing operations. | 04-23-2009 |
20090188224 | OPERATING A ROTARY MOWER USING GEARBOX TEMPERATURE - With a rotary mower having a driveline including a plurality of gearboxes, a method of operating the rotary mower includes providing a sensor operative to measure a temperature of each gearbox in the driveline; monitoring the temperature in each gear box; and operating the mower to maintain the temperature of each gearbox at a level below a maximum acceptable temperature. | 07-30-2009 |
20090293439 | GRASS MOWING MACHINE HAVING ADJUSTABLE WIDTH TOOLBAR FOR MOUNTING CUTTING UNITS - A grass mowing machine has a frame with an adjustable width toolbar including a center section and left and right outer sections telescoping into the center section. A pair of cutting units are mounted to lift arms pivotably connected to outboard ends of the outer sections of the adjustable width toolbar. A hydraulic lift cylinder is mounted between an inboard end of each lift arm and the adjustable width toolbar at a selected mounting point in the center section. The mounting point of the center section is aligned with a mounting point in one of the outer sections to provide a specified toolbar width suitable for the cutting units. | 12-03-2009 |
20110239603 | GANG REEL MOWER WITH DIFFERING FRONT AND REAR REEL CUTTING UNIT SETUP FOR IMPROVING AFTERCUT APPEARANCE - A gang reel mower comprises a plurality of laterally spaced front reel cutting units having gaps therebetween, each gap being covered by a rear reel cutting unit that spans and overlaps the gap on each side thereof by an overlap area. Each of the front cutting units is supported for rolling on the ground by a grooved front roller having a grooved portion and by a substantially smooth rear roller having a substantially smooth rolling surface that each extend substantially across the entire width of cut of the front cutting unit. Each of the rear cutting units has a grooved front roller with side shoulders on each end and with a grooved portion between the side shoulders such that the shoulders extend substantially over the overlap areas between the front and rear cutting units with the grooved portion on the front roller of the rear cutting units not extending substantially into the overlap areas. In addition, each of the rear cutting units includes a rear roller with a rolling surface is shorter than the rear roller on the front cutting unit such that the shorter rolling surface does not extend substantially into the overlap areas. | 10-06-2011 |
20120060460 | REEL GANG MOWER HAVING REEL CUTTING UNITS WITH ADJUSTABLE PULL POINT LOCATIONS - A reel gang mower has a row of front reel cutting units and a row of rear reel cutting units that cut an unbroken swath of grass in each pass. Each cutting unit is connected for propulsion to the mower frame by a four-bar linkage having front and rear pivot links that converge towards a focal point that establishes a virtual pull point through which propulsive force acts on the cutting unit. The rear pivot links can attach to the mower frame at a selected one of different attachment points to thereby longitudinally shift the pull point fore-and-aft relative to the center of gravity of the cutting unit, thus changing the fore-and-aft weight distribution. The rear cutting units in the gang can be configured to have a tail heavy weight distribution relative to the front cutting units to help eliminate marking in the overlap areas between the cutting units. | 03-15-2012 |
20130160413 | REEL GANG MOWER HAVING DIFFERENT WIDTH FRONT AND REAR CUTTING UNITS - A reel gang mower has a plurality of front reel cutting units and at least trailing one rear reel cutting unit. Each rear reel cutting unit is centered on a gap between a pair of adjacent front cutting units to cover the gap. Each rear reel cutting unit has a cutting width that is wider than a common cutting width of the front reel cutting units by an amount which is sufficient to maintain positive overlap between the front and rear reel cutting units while mowing when turning or in sidehill mowing such that substantially no uncut strips of grass are left in a cut grass swath provided by the mower. | 06-27-2013 |
20130312380 | REEL MOWER - A reel mower has a double A arm suspension that lowers a reel cutting unit into a cutting position in a tail down orientation and that levels the reel cutting unit out as it lifts the reel cutting unit into a transport position. The reel cutting unit yaws during turns about a substantially vertical axis having a negative caster angle. The suspension has clamps that can be flipped open or closed to quickly attach or detach the reel cutting unit. A drive motor can be quickly attached or detached to the reel cutting unit using a pivotal wire form. An active counterbalance system automatically offsets the increasing weight of a grass basket on the reel cutting unit to maintain quality of cut. The grass basket maintains a constant spacing relative to the reel cutting unit when the reel cutting unit pitches to improve clipping collection. | 11-28-2013 |
20140075902 | LAWN MOWING VEHICLE WITH A CONTROL UNIT FOR THE MOTOR - A lawn moving vehicle ( | 03-20-2014 |
20160106036 | REEL MOWER - A reel mower has a double A arm suspension that lowers a reel cutting unit into a cutting position in a tail down orientation and that levels the reel cutting unit out as it lifts the reel cutting unit into a transport position. The reel cutting unit yaws during turns about a substantially vertical axis having a negative caster angle. The suspension has clamps that can be flipped open or closed to quickly attach or detach the reel cutting unit. A drive motor can be quickly attached or detached to the reel cutting unit using a pivotal wire form. An active counterbalance system automatically offsets the increasing weight of a grass basket on the reel cutting unit to maintain quality of cut. The grass basket maintains a constant spacing relative to the reel cutting unit when the reel cutting unit pitches to improve clipping collection. | 04-21-2016 |
20160135355 | IMPLEMENT AND WORK VEHICLE - An implement ( | 05-19-2016 |
20160150718 | WORK VEHICLE | 06-02-2016 |
20160174455 | GANG MOWER WITH REEL MOWER CUTTING UNITS | 06-23-2016 |