CLASS 111, PLANTING |
100 | PLANT SETTING: |
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Process or apparatus for placing plants or primordial plant
material such as cuttings, slips, tubers, clones, or the like into
the soil or a soil confining receptacle at an attitude which permits
and for the purpose of facilitating subsequent growth thereof.
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101 | . Excavating transplanter: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 100. Apparatus in which a means such as a blade, scoop, shovel
or the like is impressed into the soil to surround the bulk of a
plant"s root system and which can be manipulated so that
a substantially undisturbed root ball is removed from the soil to
facilitate moving of the plant to a new growing location.
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102 | . Through mulch: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 100. Process or apparatus where the plant material is implaced
through a natural or synthetic layer which breaks up the capillarity
of a mineral soil layer therebeneath.
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103 | . Laterally shifted to final position: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 100. Process or apparatus which includes a provision or special
structural feature which causes the plant material to be moved into
its final growth position from a direction which is parallel to
the soil surface.
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104 | . Plant dispensing (i.e., singulation from a bulk source): |
This subclass is indented under subclass 100. Process or apparatus which includes a supply of living plant
material and which further includes means to select a single element
from the supply for spaced or timed delivery to the soil.
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105 | .. Supply in organized array: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 104. Process or apparatus wherein the bulk supply of plant material
includes an organizer for the material such as a tape, chain, tray,
string, band or the like.
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106 | . Manually operated implement: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 100. Apparatus manipulated and directly controlled by the exertion
of muscle power by the operator to perform the needful planting
operation.
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107 | .. With furrow opener: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 106. Apparatus further including a device adapted to be drawn
through the soil to open a long shallow narrow trench therein into
which plants or plant materials are set.
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108 | .. With irrigator: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 106. Apparatus further including a reservoir for containing a
plant watering liquid and a manually operated release means for
dispensing a portion of such liquid into the general area of the
set plant.
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109 | . Drilling machines (i.e., furrow opener): |
This subclass is indented under subclass 100. Apparatus including a device adapted to be drawn through
the soil to open a long, shallow, narrow trench therein and further
including a depositing device which sets plants in the trench.
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110 | .. With irrigator: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 109. Apparatus further including a reservoir for containing a
plant watering liquid and means for dispensing a portion of such
liquid within the formed furrow or into the general area of the set
plant.
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111 | .. Runner opener: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 109. Apparatus wherein the opening element is symmetrically arranged
with respect to the line of draft, has an earth- breaking portion
which extends downwardly and rearwardly from the top front portion
of the element, and has side portions extending rearwardly and diverging outwardly
from the earth- breaking portion and which become generally planar
and parallel to each other towards the rear of the element so that
the element has an overall shape which resembles the bow portion
of a boat.
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112 | .. Rotating or orbiting opener: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 109. Apparatus wherein the opening element turns, spins, or revolves
about an axis.
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113 | ... Power operated: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 112. Apparatus wherein the opening element derives its rotary
or orbiting motion from forces transmitted thereto by means other
than or in addition to, the opener"s frictional contact with
the soil.
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114 | . Plant containing receptacle impressed into soil: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 100. Process or apparatus wherein the plants are situated within
a specialized container, and means are provided which act in coordination with
the specialized container for exerting a force on such container
to press the container into the soil and wherein at least a portion
of the container remains in the soil with the root system of the
plant.
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115 | . Dibbler: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 100. Apparatus including means to form a cavity, other than a
furrow, in the soil by a nub, stem, nipple, dagger, probe, protrusion,
or the like which is intermittently impressed and removed from the
soil.
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116 | .. Auger type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 115. Apparatus wherein the dibbler forms a hole in the soil by means of at least one element which is rotated as it is forced into the soil, the element including a cutting edge and an upwardly directed helical surface which feeds engaged soil upwardly with rotation of the element to remove soil from the hole. | |
117 | .. Angled: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 115. Apparatus wherein the dibbler is forced into the soil at
an orientation which is other than generally perpendicular to the
soil surface.
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118 | LIQUID OR GAS SOIL TREATMENT: |
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Process or apparatus for directing liquid, gas, or vapor
into contact with or beneath the top surface of the soil.
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119 | . Treating substance includes ammonia (e.g., flashing control): |
This subclass is indented under subclass 118. Apparatus including a special provision for the problems inherent with the storage, handling, or dispensing of ammonia into the soil because of its low boiling point. | |
120 | . Drilling machine (i.e., furrow opener): |
This subclass is indented under subclass 118. Apparatus further including a device adapted to be drawn
through the soil to open a long, shallow, narrow trench therein
into or about which the liquid or gas treatment is applied.
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121 | .. Rotating or orbiting opener: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 120. Apparatus wherein the opening element turns, spins, or revolves
about an axis.
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122 | ... Power operated: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 121. Apparatus wherein the opening element derives its rotary
or orbiting motion from forces transmitted thereto by means other
than, or in addition to, the opener"s frictional contact with
the soil.
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123 | .. Chisel opener: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 120. Apparatus wherein the opening element is specifically disclosed
as working deep in the soil and having such a configuration that
it merely lifts the soil and does not shift it laterally of the line
of the furrow.
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124 | .. Shoe opener: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 120. Apparatus wherein the opening element is symmetrically arranged
with respect to the line of draft, has an earth breaking portion,
has wing portions extending laterally beyond the sides thereof which
form a V-shape when viewed in plan or front elevation, and has a portion
extending upwardly from the central portion of the V for attachment
to a standard.
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125 | .. Runner opener: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 120. Apparatus wherein the opening element is symmetrically arranged
with respect to the line of draft, has an earth- breaking portion
which extends downwardly and rearwardly from the front portion of
the element and has side portions extending rearwardly and diverging
outwardly from the earth breaking portion and which become generally
planar and parallel to each other towards the rear of the element
so that the element has an overall shape which resembles the bow
portion of a boat.
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126 | .. Moldboard opener: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 120. Apparatus wherein the opening element includes a landside
which has a member adapted to slide over the soil to receive the
side pressure caused by soilworking, a point for making an initial
cut in the earth, a share for making a substantially horizontal
cut beneath the surface to cut a slice of soil, and a board to guide
and completely invert the soil slice.
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7.1 | . Hand manipulated: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 118. Devices where the earth working means are hand operated. | |
7.2 | .. Implement carried supply: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 7.1. Devices having material supply means integral with the implement or directly supported by and carried with the implement. | |
7.3 | ... Work operated valve: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 7.2. Devices having a fluid control valve operated solely by contact of the implement with the ground. | |
7.4 | ... Non-gravity fluid feed: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 7.2. Devices wherein the fluid is ejected by means of a force pump or other discharge assistant. | |
127 | . Injector nozzle situated above soil surface: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 118. Process or apparatus wherein the treating fluid is caused to enter the soil or to disturb the soil by action of a pressurized fluid issuing from a nozzle which is spaced at a selected distance above the surface of the soil. | |
128 | . Rotating dibble injector: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 118. Process or apparatus including a revolving, cavity forming
tool and timing means which causes introduction of the treating
fluid into the soil in timed relationship with the penetration of
the soil by the tool.
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129 | . Multiple fluid treatment: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 118. Process or apparatus wherein the treating fluid is at least two disparate substances delivered to the soil in a fluid state or dissolved or entrained in a carrying fluid. | |
8 | DRILLING AND BROADCASTING: |
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Processes of planting comprising both drilling and broadcasting
operations or implements which by an interchange or shift of parts may
be used at will to plant in drill or to broadcast or implements
which by a combination of parts drill material and broadcast other
material simultaneously.
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9 | . Main and auxiliary frame machines: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 8. Instruments embodying a main supporting-frame-section and an auxiliary frame-section, the latter usually composed of or carrying the earth-working tools and other elements and movable relative to the main frame-section. | |
130 | BROADCASTING: |
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Process or apparatus which is adapted to strew seed, fertilizer,
or particulate matter with substantial uniformity, but with no specific
pattern, upon and to mix the same with the soil.
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131 | . Including powered tiller: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 130. Apparatus including a device which turns over or mixes the
soil and which derives its motion from forces transmitted thereto
by means other than, or in addition to, frictional contact with the
soil.
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132 | .. Material dispensed ahead of tiller: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 131. Apparatus wherein the strewn material is first deposited
on the soil and thereafter mixed with the soil by the powered tiller.
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133 | .. Material dispensed behind tiller: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 131. Apparatus wherein the soil is first turned over and mixed
by the powered tiller and thereafter the material is strewn upon
the turned over or mixed soil.
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11 | . Machines with scatterer: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 130. Broadcasting implements having a device, such as a spreader, deflecting-board, blower, centrifugal blade, or the like, adapted to distribute the material over a more extended area than the normal discharge of the apparatus would otherwise effect. | |
12 | .. Main and auxiliary frame: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 11. Implements embodying also a main supporting-frame section and an auxiliary frame section, the latter usually composed of or carrying the earth-working elements and movably relatively to the main frame-section. | |
13 | . Main and auxiliary frame machines: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 130. Implements embodying a main supporting-frame and an auxiliary frame, the latter carrying or unitary with the earth-working elements. | |
14 | DRILLING: |
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Processes or instruments for placing material in the ground,
accompanied by the forming of a furrow to receive the material or the
closing of a furrow containing such material or by the forming of
a ridge over the deposited material.
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15 | . Hill-planting machines: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 14. Drilling machines embodying means for accumulating charges of material for deposit at spaced points or means to insure the depositing of material at spaced points or to aline the points of material deposit in a plurality or substantially parallel lines. | |
16 | .. Check correcting: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 15. Devices embodying instrumentalities for effecting a change in the relationship of machine parts for the purpose of starting or maintaining the transverse alinement of points of material deposit in successively-drilled lines. | |
17 | ... With automatic regulator: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 16. Devices comprising an alinement-maintaining means responding to movements of the planter over uneven portions of traversed ground. | |
18 | .. Frame and planting-element arrangement: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 15. The general organization of hill-planting machines, comprising the construction and arrangement of the supporting and operating frames and the relations of the hill-planting elements thereto and to each other. | |
19 | ... With tractive-belt feed drive: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 18. Devices comprising and endless belt actuated by contact with the ground traversed for effecting the operation of the means for controlling or causing the delivery of the seed or other material from the hopper or other container. | |
20 | ... Sectional main frame: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 18. The frame being in a plurality of sections adjoining in the supporting of the total load placed upon the machine. | |
21 | .... Break joint: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 20. Devices comprising forward and rearward sections connected
by a transverse pivot and capable of a buckling action to lift certain
parts of the planter from contact with the ground.
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22 | ... Main and auxiliary frame: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 18. Devices embodying a main supporting section and an auxiliary
section having movement with relation to each other, the main frame
being designed to support or carry the auxiliary frame.
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23 | .... Rotary-marker operator: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 22. The auxiliary section consisting of or carrying a rotary
spot-marking device from which power is taken to actuate the means
for causing or controlling the delivery of seed or other material
from the hopper or other container.
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24 | .... Hopper-carrying auxiliary: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 22. The auxiliary section carrying the hopper and dispensing devices. | |
25 | .. Depositing and marking mechanisms: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 15. Dropping mechanism and mechanism for making a mark to locate
the dropped material, the actuation of which mechanisms has a fixed time
relationship.
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26 | ... Powder marking: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 25. Marking devices wherein accomplished by dropping upon the
ground traversed a distinctively colored powder.
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27 | ... Driving marking: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 25. Depositing mechanism driven from the marking mechanism,
the driving power being produced by the engagement of the marking device
with the ground during the travel of the planter.
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28 | .... Revolving: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 27. Wherein the marking device is a revolving member having
a wheel-like form.
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29 | ... Driven marker: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 25. Marking device is driven directly or indirectly from the
main axle of the planter.
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30 | .... Plunging: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Wherein the marking device is a tool which is plunged into the ground at intervals by a movement other than that of rotation, as by reciprocating or vibrating to and from the ground. | |
31 | ..... Hill covering: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 30. Plunging marker is so timed and located as to act as a cover for the deposited material. | |
32 | .... Revolving: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Marking device is a revolving member of wheel-like form. | |
33 | .. Marking mechanisms: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 15. Device comprising means for intermittently impressing upon
the ground traversed guide marks or impressions to indicate the
points where the material should be planted to make aligned hills
or combinations of such means with means for marking an unbroken
line across a field as distinguished from a succession of spots.
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34 | .. Depositing mechanisms: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 15. Dispensing or dropping devices particularly adapted for
use in hill-planting and characterized by means insuring discharge
at intervals, such as a line-wire actuating or controlling means
or a valved chute for checking or accumulating charges of material.
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35 | ... Interchangeably operable: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 34. Depositing mechanism adapted to be actuated through its
cycle by any one of a plurality of means.
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36 | ... Primarily axle-driven: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 34. Mechanism wherein there is a primary and a secondary operating
train, the source of power for the primary train being always from
the axle of the traction wheels.
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37 | .... Intermittently controlled: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 36. The mechanism in whole or in part subject to a periodic
control.
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38 | ..... Check-wire tripped: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 37. Devices wherein intermittent control is effected by a wire having knots or equivalent, which engage suitable devices on the machine. | |
39 | ...... Both feeder and valve: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 38. Devices wherein the intermittent control extends to means for the actuation of both the main dispensing device and an accumulating device. | |
40 | ...... With wire-actuated valve: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 38. Devices wherein the check-wire controls the actuation of the main dispensing means and also actuates the accumulator. | |
41 | .... With wire-actuated valve: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 36. Devices wherein the dispensing element is actuated from the axle, while the check-wire actuates only the accumulator. | |
42 | ... Endless-belt tripped: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 34. Devices wherein an endless belt having trip members engages a tappet, fork, or equivalent upon a rock-shaft or the like connected with the depositing devices. | |
43 | ... Line-wire driven: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 34. Devices wherein actuation is effected solely by a wire or cable, which is anchored at a point outside of the machine and engages some relatively movable element of the machine. | |
44 | .... Reel carried: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Devices wherein the wire is wound upon a reel on the machine and actuates the depositing mechanism by reason of the winding or unwinding due to the draft of the wire during the traverse of the machine. | |
45 | .... Check-wire tripped: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Devices wherein the line-wire carries knots and actuates the depositing mechanism by tripping a forked device connected thereto. | |
46 | .... Both feeder and valve: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Devices wherein the tripped fork actuates both the main dispensing element and the accumulator. | |
47 | .... Trip-fork mechanisms: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Devices comprising a forked element or the like combined with guiding devices for directing the knot into contact with the forked element; also modifications of structure and means to accomplish the attachment or detachment of the wire and the fork. | |
48.1 | .... Guide: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Device for guiding the line-wire to and from, across, or through the planting machine. | |
49 | .... Wire-end-anchoring devices: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Devices for staking the ends of a line-wire, characterized
generally by the presence of means for shifting the attached end
laterally or providing additional length or wire, etc., as the planter
approaches that end of the line-wire.
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50 | ... Manually operated: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 34. Devices wherein the depositing devices are operated at will by the hand or foot of the operative. | |
51 | ... Accumulators: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 34. Devices having combinations of a main dispensing element and a valved chute. | |
52 | . Frame and planting-element arrangement: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 14. Devices having general organization of the supporting and
operating frame of a drilling-machine other than hill-planters and
the relation of the planting elements thereto and to each other.
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53 | .. Sectional main frame: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 52. Devices wherein the frame being in a plurality of sections joining in the support of the total load placed upon the machine. | |
54 | ... Flexible: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Devices wherein sections of the frame hingedly connected to permit relative movement of the sections. | |
55 | .... With auxiliary frame: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 54. Devices comprising also a frame designed to be supported or carried by the hinged sections of the main frame. | |
56 | .... Break joint: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 54. Devices comprising forward and rearward sections connected
by a transverse pivot and capable of a buckling action to lift certain
parts of the planter from contact with the ground.
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57 | ... Extensible: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Devices wherein the sections of the main frame having capacity of movement to each other resulting in an enlargement of frame to cover increased area of ground. | |
58 | .... V-shaped: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 57. Devices wherein the sections of the extensible frame mounted to move upon vertical pivots and movable toward and from each other at one end only of the frame. | |
59 | .. Main and auxiliary frame: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 52. Devices embodying a main supporting section and a secondary section having movement with relation to each other, the main frame-section being designed to support or carry the secondary frame. | |
60 | ... Plurality of auxiliaries: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 59. Devices wherein a plurality of secondary frames are associated
with a main frame.
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61 | .... Unitarily controlled: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 60. Devices wherein movement of the auxiliaries is controlled by a single means, usually such as a lever mechanism, for elevating or depressing the earth-working elements from or toward the ground. | |
62 | ... Floating auxiliary: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 59. Devices in operative position the auxiliary being free to
trail or move with relation to the main frame to accommodate itself
to the unevenness or inequalities of the ground traversed.
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134 | .... Gauge means for auxiliary frame: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 62. Apparatus which includes a means to effectively control
the cutting depth of a furrow opener mounted on a floating auxiliary
frame.
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135 | ..... Rotating gauge means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 134. Apparatus wherein the means to control the cutting depth
of the furrower opener turns, spins, or revolves about an axis.
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136 | ...... Packing means gauges opener: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 135. Apparatus wherein the rotating gauging means serves the
auxiliary function of moving or compressing soil back into the furrow.
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137 | ...... Adjustable gauge wheels separate from packer: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 135. Apparatus wherein the rotating-gauge means selectively supports the opener so as to operate at any of a variety of set depths. | |
138 | ..... Sled frame: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 134. Apparatus in which the gauging means comprises a pair of
spaced parallel runners which slide over the surface of the soil,
and an opening element is positioned between and supported by both
runners.
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63 | .... Hopper carrying: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 62. Devices wherein the floating auxiliary frame carries the hopper and dispensing devices. | |
64 | ..... Detachable: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 63. Devices wherein the hopper-carrying auxiliary having the general form of planter or distributer attachable and detachable with respect to an otherwise complete machine, as a wagon, cultivator, or the like. | |
65 | ...... Single row: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 64. The machine and its attached planter or distributer constituting a complete planting instrumentality of the single row or drill type. | |
66 | .... Tool-bar type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 62. Device wherein the floating or trailing auxiliary frame comprising one or more drags or push-bars by which the earth-working elements or tools are carried. | |
67 | ..... With lift and ungear: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 66. Devices provided with means for lifting the tool-bars from contact with the ground and at the same time disconnecting the driving devices of the depositing mechanism. | |
68 | ... With crank-axle lift: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 59. Devices wherein the auxiliary frame elevated and depressed
by means of a cranked ground-wheel axle forming part of or mounted
upon the main or supporting frame of the planter.
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69 | .. With adjustable planter elements: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 52. Devices having provision in the construction of the frame for the adjustment of planter elements individually thereon, vertically, as to elevate or depress them; laterally, as to vary the distance between drilled rows, or longitudinally, as to change the relative spacing of elements acting in a single row. | |
70 | .. Rigid: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 52. Devices wherein the frame is of general rigid structure or has no hinged or articulated parts. | |
71 | ... Single row: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 70. Devices carrying planter elements for drilling one row during one traverse, as distinguished from those implements that drill a plurality of rows during one traverse. | |
72 | .... Manually operated depositing mechanism: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 71. Devices comprising a depositing mechanism operable by the muscular power of the operative. | |
73 | .... Multiple depositing: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 71. Devices comprising means for depositing a plurality of different materials in the same drill or trench. | |
74 | .... Revolving hopper: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 71. Devices wherein the material is dispensed from a hopper that has a movement of rotation always in the same direction when the planter is moving in one direction. | |
75 | .... Vibrating hopper: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 71. Devices wherein the material is dispensed from a hopper that has a back-and-forth movement, either oscillating or reciprocating. | |
76 | .... Vibrating delivery chute: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 71. Devices wherein the material is dropped upon a vibrating chute, from which it is discharged to the ground. | |
77 | .... Rotating dispenser: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 71. Devices wherein the material is dispensed from a hopper by means of an element revolving in such manner as to intermittingly discharge or control the discharge from a nonrotatable and nonvibrating hopper. | |
78 | ..... Axle mounted: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 77. Devices wherein the rotating dispenser is mounted directly upon the driving-axle. | |
79 | . Single-row implements: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 14. Devices wherein organized planting implements are peculiarly adapted to single-row drilling not involving specified relation to frame arrangement. | |
80 | .. Multiple depositing: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 79. Devices adapted to deposit a plurality of materials. | |
81 | .. Planter-element arrangement: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 79. Devices wherein the invention alleged lies in the arrangement
of material depositing and earth-working elements with relation
to each other only.
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82 | .. Hand propelled: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 79. Implements constructed or adapted to be propelled by the
muscular power of a man.
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83 | . Lister units: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 14. Planting elements comprising a plow for forming a wide trench
and means for drilling material in a relatively narrow drill in
the bottom thereof.
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84 | . Drag-bar units: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 14. Devices wherein bars are with planting elements thereon
designed to be dragged over the earth.
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139 | . Including trash control accessory: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 14. Apparatus including a specific device which cuts, breaks
up, moves, or removes living vegetation, fallow, stones, clods,
residue or the like from the path of the opener.
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140 | .. Coulter: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 139. Apparatus wherein the trash control accessory includes a
device which cuts a vertical slit in the trash or soil to clear
and predefine a path for an opener which follows thereafter and which
has a vertically extending portion operating in the slit.
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141 | .. Dozer (e.g., deflector): |
This subclass is indented under subclass 139. Apparatus wherein the trash control accessory includes at least one primary blade set at a predetermined height above the soil and positioned ahead of the opener to grade or deflect laterally obstructive material from the path of the opener. | |
142 | ... With tine: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 141. Apparatus wherein the primary dozing blade has attached thereto a secondary blade which serves to scratch, sweep, or rake at least a portion of the path of the opener. | |
143 | .. Having holddown: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 139. Apparatus wherein the trash control accessory includes means
for positioning or holding trash or plants (e.g., weeds) so that
they may be covered or cut by the operation of the opener.
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144 | . Including mulching accessory: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 14. Apparatus including a specific means to change the compaction
or arrangement of, and thereby the capillarity of soil areas down
to a preselected depth along a path which includes and is wider
than the width of the furrow formed by the opening means.
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145 | .. Harrow: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 144. Apparatus in which the mulching accessory comprises a framework which includes a plurality of spikes or sharpened disks which are drawn through the soil. | |
146 | ... Spring tooth: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 145. Apparatus wherein the harrow includes resilient spikes which are drawn through the soil. | |
147 | . Including subsoiler (i.e., deep soil tiller): |
This subclass is indented under subclass 14. Apparatus including a specific soil-penetrating device preceding
the material-depositing means which enters and disturbs soil to
a depth which exceeds the depth at which seeds are to be deposited.
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148 | .. With furrow smoother: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 147. Apparatus which further include a device which follows the
subsoiler and function to fill, cover or even out the soil disruption
caused by the subsoiler.
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149 | . Furrow opener: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 14. Apparatus wherein significance is attributed to a device
adapted to be drawn through the soil to open a long, shallow, narrow
trench therein.
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150 | .. Including dispensed material deflector: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 149. Apparatus further including a device mounted on or a surface associated with the opener to cause a change in the direction of the material being deposited to generate a preferred pattern of material placement within the opened soil. | |
151 | .. Including trip mechanism: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 149. Apparatus including means permitting the furrow opening
element to shift with respect to the soil or with respect to its
supporting or propelling means when it meets an obstacle while being
drawn over the field, said means (1) having a high initial resistance
to said shifting of the element, which resistance decreases after the
element starts to shift, or (2) requiring manual resetting by an
attendant (e.g., shear pin).
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152 | .. Shoe opener: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 149. Apparatus wherein the opening element is symmetrically arranged
with respect to the line of draft, has an earth- breaking portion,
has wing portions extending laterally beyond the sides thereof which
form a V-shape when viewed in plan or front elevation, and has a portion
extending upwardly from the central portion of the V for attachment
to a standard.
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153 | .. Runner opener: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 149. Apparatus wherein the opening element is symmetrically arranged
with respect to the line of draft, has an earth- breaking portion
which extends downwardly and rearwardly from the top front portion
of the element, and has side portions extending rearwardly and diverging outwardly
from the earth-breaking portion and which become generally planar
and parallel to each other towards the rear of the element, so that
the element has an overall shape which resembles the bow portion
of a boat.
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154 | .. Boot opener (e.g., tooth or tine): |
This subclass is indented under subclass 149. Apparatus having a generally elongated-furrow-opening element
having a soil-working portion and a standard to support it in furrow opening
position in which the soil working portion is no longer in lateral
and longitudinal extent than the standard.
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155 | ... Spring formed tool or standard: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 154. Apparatus in which the furrow-opening element or its intermediate
supporting means is formed of resilient material.
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156 | .. Chisel opener: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 149. Apparatus wherein the opening element is specifically disclosed
as working deep in the soil and having such a configuration that
it merely lifts the soil and does not shift it laterally of the line
of the furrow.
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157 | .. Rotary opener: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 149. Apparatus wherein the opening element turns, spins, or revolves
about an axis.
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158 | ... Power rotated: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 157. Apparatus wherein the opening element derives its rotary
motion from forces transmitted thereto by means other than, or in
addition to, the opener"s frictional contact with the soil.
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159 | .... With tine: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 158. Apparatus in which the rotating opener has teeth, projections,
blades, or other configurations spaced circumferentially and projecting generally
at right angles to the axis of rotation to engage the soil intermittently
or with a varying effect as the opener turns.
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160 | ..... Rotatable about vertical axis: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 159. Apparatus wherein the tines rotate about an axis which is
generally perpendicular to the surface of the soil.
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161 | ..... Material deposited into tiller operated zone: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 159. Apparatus wherein a depositing means introduces material
simultaneously with and into the same area where the opener is creating
a furrow to thereby incorporate the dispensed material into the
soil which is formed into a furrow.
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162 | ..... Material deposited behind tiller: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 159. Apparatus wherein a furrow is formed by the powered tiller
and thereafter material is deposited into the formed furrow.
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163 | ... Disk: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 157. Apparatus wherein the rotary opener is a generally circular,
plate-like member.
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164 | .... Plural cooperating disk openers: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 163. Apparatus including at least two coacting disk elements
which operate to open a furrow.
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165 | ..... Staggered arrangement: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 164. Apparatus wherein at least one of the disks is not aligned in a transverse direction with the other disk or disks in the assembly. | |
166 | ..... Scalloped or fluted: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 164. Apparatus wherein at least one of the disks has undulations,
indentations or the like at the outer periphery thereof.
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167 | .... Flat: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 163. Apparatus wherein the sides of the disk are substantially planar. | |
168 | .... Dished: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 163. Apparatus wherein the disk is concave on one side and convex on the other side. | |
169 | ..... Scalloped or fluted: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 168. Apparatus wherein the disk has undulations, indentations
or the like at the outer periphery thereof.
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170 | . Having depositor feature: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 14. Apparatus having a specific device which causes spaced or
timed delivery of material into a furrow.
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171 | .. Endless conveyor with traps: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 170. Apparatus including a driven endless element moveable along
a path of circulation and which includes traps which are loaded
and unloaded at different points along said path to deliver material
towards the open furrow as the machine advances.
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172 | ... Chain: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 171. Apparatus wherein the endless element is a series of interconnected links. | |
173 | .. Screw conveyor: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 170. Apparatus including a material supporting surface which
traverses a spiraling path to deliver material towards the open
furrow as the machine advances.
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174 | .. Fluid current conveyor: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 170. Apparatus wherein material to be deposited is carried toward
the open furrow by means of, or with the assistance of a flowing
gas stream.
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175 | ... Flow divider head: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 174. Apparatus wherein at least one primary fluid conveying current
conveys material from an inlet to the fluid conveyer to a structure
which substantially evenly divides the fluid conveying current into
a plurality of secondary streams for delivery to the opened furrow.
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176 | ... Material speed reducing means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 174. Apparatus including means near the outlet of the fluid current conveyor which is effective to reduce the pressure of the entraining fluid to near atmospheric so that the deposited materials will not be blown or bounced out of the furrow. | |
177 | .. Rotating dispensing element: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 170. Apparatus including at least one member which turns, spins,
or revolves about an axis to receive a charge of material from a
bulk supply and deliver that charge for deposit into the furrow.
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178 | ... Roll or drum: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 177. Apparatus wherein the rotating dispenser is at least one cylinder which extends across an outlet of the source of supply. | |
179 | .... Air pressure differential drum: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 178. Apparatus wherein the rotating dispensing element is a hollow
cylinder and wherein the charge of material is held on the surface
of the drum by an air pressure differential caused by (a) the creation
of a subatmospheric pressure within the hollow interior of the drum
and expressed through holes in the drum surface or (b) by a superatmospheric
pressure which traps material against the surface of the drum.
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180 | ..... Vacuum blocker rotates: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 179. Apparatus including a member which turns, spins, or revolves about an axis and rolls along the interior of the drum"s surface to selectively cover the holes in the drum"s surface thereby cutting off the relative vacuum so as to allow the charge of material to be released from the drum. | |
181 | ..... Excess material remover: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 179. Apparatus which further includes means such as a brush, air nozzle, scraper, or the like to remove extra material which may adhere to the surface of the drum before that extra material is released into the furrow. | |
182 | ..... Protrusions on drum periphery: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 179. Apparatus further including members which extend radially outwardly from the drum periphery and through which the air pressure differential is expressed. | |
183 | ... Plate type trap: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 177. Apparatus wherein the rotating dispensing element is a disk which contains holes, grooves, depressions or the like which capture a charge of material from the supply and deliver that charge for deposit into the furrow. | |
184 | .... Vertical: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 183. Apparatus wherein the plate assumes a substantially vertical attitude and rotates about a substantially horizontal axis. | |
185 | ..... Air pressure differential: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 184. Apparatus wherein the charge of material is held on the
surface of the disk by an air pressure differential caused by (1)
the creation of a subatmospheric pressure on one side of the disk
which is expressed through holes in the disk surface or (2) by a
superatmospheric pressure which traps material against the surface.
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186 | .. Plural depositors for disparate material: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 170. Apparatus including at least two depositing mechanisms which
deposit at least two materially different materials into the soil.
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187 | ... To various depths: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 186. Apparatus including means to deposit one material at a level in or upon the soil which is different than the level at which the other material is deposited. | |
188 | ... At least one solid, one liquid: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 186. Apparatus wherein one of the disparate materials dispensed is a particulate solid, and another of the disparate materials dispensed is a flowable liquid. | |
189 | . Including seed tamper in furrow: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 14. Apparatus including a specific element such as a wheel, roller, blade, or the like which exerts pressure on seed dispensed within the open furrow to press the seed into the soil at the bottom of the furrow. | |
190 | . Furrow closer: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 14. Apparatus including a specific device which moves soil back into the furrow to cover the deposited material. | |
191 | .. Rotating furrow closer: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 190. Apparatus wherein the furrow-closing element turns, spins, or moves about an axis as it moves soil back into the furrow. | |
192 | ... Disk: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 191. Apparatus wherein the rotating furrow-closing element is
a generally circular plate-like member which pushes soil laterally
into the furrow.
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193 | .... Plural: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 192. Apparatus including at least two furrow-closing disks. | |
194 | ... Packer wheel: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 191. Apparatus wherein a rotating furrow-closing element has
a circular periphery which exerts a component of force downwardly
on the soil as it moves the soil into the furrow.
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195 | .... Plural: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 194. Apparatus including at least two furrow-closing wheels. | |
196 | ..... Pinch adjustment: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 195. Apparatus in which wheels are mounted in angular relationship to each other so as to form a ridge of soil when moved over the furrow, the angular relationship being resettable to selectively vary the height or compaction of the ridge. | |
197 | .. Drag: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 190. Apparatus in which soil is moved back into the furrow by a member which slides along the soil surface and is pulled behind the drilling machine. | |
198 | ... Chain: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 197. Apparatus wherein the furrow-closing member is a series of interconnected links. | |
89 | DIBBLING: |
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Processes of and instruments for placing material in general
in the ground, comprising the forming of a cavity other than a furrow therein
to receive the material and the depositing of the material in said
cavity.
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90 | . Revolving-hopper implements: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 89. Devices comprising a rotating material-dispensing receptacle, which usually also carries the tools for forming the cavity. | |
91 | .. Revolving-dibble-carrier implements: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 90. Devices comprising a rotating member carrying the cavity-forming
tools.
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92 | . Manually-operated implements: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 89. Hand devices for forming a depression in the earth and depositing
material therein.
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93 | .. Machine attached: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 92. Implements designed to be attached to some vehicle, traveling
agricultural implement, or the like and operable at will by the
operative.
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94 | .. Spacing in hill: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 92. Devices comprising means, such as a plurality of chutes or material- guideways, for insuring a deposit of material in spaced relationship within the "hill". | |
95 | .. Regulated discharge: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 92. Devices comprising a material-depositing mechanism with means to control or regulate the discharge of material at will. | |
96 | ... Sliding-plunger control: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 95. Devices including a sliding member designed to be plunged into the ground to form a cavity, the dropping of material being under the control of said member. | |
97 | .. Multiple-staff control: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 92. Devices including a plurality of pivoted staves adapted to cooperate in forming a cavity in the ground, the dropping of material being under the control of said staves. | |
98 | .. Footplate control: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 92. Devices including a foot- plate, which is brought into contact with the ground in forming the cavity, the dropping of material being under the control of said foot-plate. | |
99 | . Dibbles: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 89. Hand implements for forming a cavity other than a furrow
in the ground to receive material.
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199 | SEED TAPE PLANTERS: |
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Process or apparatus wherein a narrow, flexible strip, ribbon,
or band which has seeds secured thereto in spaced relation is placed
into the soil.
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200 | MISCELLANEOUS: |
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Process or apparatus not provided for in any of the above subclasses. | |
900 | METHODS OF PLANTING SEEDS AND MISCELLANEOUS COMPOSITIONS: |
Collection or art relating to processes for placing seeds in soil or to the chemical make up of various soil or seed treating materials. | |
901 | LAWN OR TURF: |
Collection of art relating to the treating, maintaining, or installing of grassy areas. | |
902 | . Pasture renovation: |
Collection of art under 901 specifically relating to the reconditioning or replanting of lawn or turf used for the feeding of grazing animals. | |
903 | MONITOR: |
Collection of art relating to devices which keep track of, regulate, or control the operation of a planting machine. | |
904 | . Population control function: |
Collection of art under 903 specifically relating to control elements which change the rate of dispensing in a planting machine responsive to a sensed undesired rate. | |
905 | SEED TREATING SEED PLANTER: |
Collection or art relating to a planting device including an agent which acts upon seed either before or during the planting operation to improve or alter the seed itself or the planting operation. | |
906 | SPECIALIZED COMMODITY: |
Collection of art relating to the planting of a particularly named type of agricultural product. | |
907 | . Cane: |
Collection of art under 906 specifically relating to the planting of tall, woody grasses or reeds (e.g., sugar cane). | |
908 | . Potato: |
Collection of art under 906 specifically relating to the planting of plant or tuber parts which develop sturdy edible tubers (e.g., sweet potato, white potato). | |
909 | . Bulb: |
Collection of art under 906 specifically relating to the planting of an underground stem, usually surrounded by scalelike modified leaves and containing stored food for the undeveloped shoots of the new plant stored within it (e.g., tulip). | |
910 | .. Onion: |
Collection of art under 909 specifically relating to the planting of an edible bulb having a pungent odor and taste and commonly known as an onion. | |
911 | . Rice: |
Collection of art under 906 specifically relating to the planting of a cereal grass with a starchy edible seed and commonly known as rice. | |
912 | . Pineapple: |
Collection of art under 906 specifically relating to the planting of a tropical plant having large swordlike leaves and a large, fleshy edible fruit consisting of the flowers fused into a compound whole with a terminal tuft of leaves and which is commonly known as a pineapple. | |
913 | . Vegetable (i.e., small seed): |
Collection of art under 906 specifically related to the planting of a specialized small, seeded, named edible plant (e.g., beet, spinach, etc.). | |
914 | .. Lettuce: |
Collection of art under 913 specifically related to the planting of a vegetable having edible leaves and commonly known as lettuce. | |
915 | SPECIAL CONDITION: |
Collection of art relating to machines designed to handle or treat seeds which are in a peculiar state. | |
916 | . Seed pellet: |
Collection of art under 915 specifically related to the planting of single, small seeds which are placed into solid or densely packed balls of nonseed material in units of uniform size which may in turn be singulated by a conventional planting machine. | |
917 | . Gel: |
Collection of art under 915 specifically related to the planting of seeds which are encased in a semisolid colloid. | |
918 | . Sprout: |
Collection of art under 915 specifically related to the planting of chitted (i.e., soaked, presprouted, germinating, or dormancy broken) seeds. | |
919 | SPECIAL TRANSPLANT RELATED FEATURE: |
Collection of art related to the preparation of a living plant for moving it from one location in the soil to another. | |
920 | AIRPLANE: |
Collection of art relating to transplanting or planting from an aeronautical device. | |
921 | UNIQUE MOTOR DRIVE: |
Collection or art relating to unconventional means by which power is derived from or transmitted to a planting machine. | |
922 | VARIABLE DRIVE MECHANISM: |
Collection of art relating to speed adjustable power transfer devices used or usable in planting machines. | |
923 | INTERROW, INTERCROP PLANTER: |
Collection of art relating to the planting of a second crop between rows or within a population of a growing crop before the harvesting of that growing crop. | |
924 | MINIMUM AND NO TILL PLANTER: |
Collection of art relating to machines which are designed to plant crops with the savings of at least one tillage step (e.g., plowing, harrowing, fertilizing, etc.). | |
925 | TANK AND HOPPER TRAILERS: |
Collection of art relating to vehicles which deliver material to and are towed by, hitched to, or otherwise associated with a planter so as to supply the planter. | |
926 | SPECIAL SUSPENSION OR GAUGING FEATURE: |
Collection of art related to a planting machine which has a particular provision to adjust or maintain weight or pressure onto an opener assembly, subframe, or the like, to maintain or enhance planting depth. | |
927 | PARALLELOGRAM MOUNTING: |
Collection of art relating to the use of links connected in parallel (parallelogram linkage) for the mounting of assemblies, subassemblies, tools or the like on planting machines. | |
FOR000 | CLASS-RELATED FOREIGN DOCUMENTS |
This subclass has no definition. | |