Farm implement

• US 4,336,844 A
• Filed: 09/19/1980
• Issued: 06/29/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Lehman H Feeder & PLOW Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Lehman H Feeder & PLOW Incorporated
• Inventors: Helbig, William H., Cornell, Barry F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Johnson, Richard J.
• Application Number:
  US06/188,256
• Time in Patent Office: 648 Days
• Field of Search: 172/138, 172/140, 172/141, 172/152, 172/153, 172/155, 172/156, 172/195, 172/196, 172/157, 172/174, 172/175, 172/177, 172/149, 172/448, 172/159, 172/451, 172/699, 172/700 , 172/688, 172/701, 172/470, 172/133, 172/635, 111/85, 111/52
• US Class Current: 172/140
• CPC Class Codes: A01B 13/02 for making or working ridges, e.g. with symmetrically arranged mouldboards , e.g. ridging plough
• CPC Class Codes: A01B 13/08 for working subsoil

Abstract

There is disclosed a farm implement having a frame connectible to a tractor by means of a three-point hitch to permit it to be moved forwardly over the ground level, a first set of chisels supported on the frame in laterally spaced-apart relation, a second set of chisels supported on the frame rearwardly of the first set and laterally intermediate laterally adjacent chisels of the first set, and a lister mounted on each chisel of the second set with its lower edge above the lower edge of the chisel of the second set. In use of the implement, the first set of chisels form longitudinally extending trenches in the ground, and the listers mounted on the chisels of the second set turn the soil toward the trenches in order to build beds thereover.

Claims

1. A farm implement, comprising a frame adapted to be moved forwardly over the ground level, including a forward section having means thereon for attachment to a tractor by means of a three point hitch, a rearward section, means mounting the rearward section from the forward frame section for raising and lowering the rearward frame section with respect to the forward section and holding it in said raised or lowered position, subsoil chisels supported in laterally spaced-apart relation on the forward frame section for form longitudinally extending trenches in the ground as the frame moves forwardly thereover, gauge wheel means mounted on the forward frame section for engaging the ground level to determine the elevation of the subsoil chisels, additional subsoil chisels each supported in laterally spaced relation on the rearward frame section so as to penetrate the soil rearward and laterally intermediate the trenches formed by the subsoil chisels supported on the forward frame section, and a plurality of listers each mounted on one of the additional subsoil chisels.

2. A farm implement of the character defined in claim 1, wherein each lister is removable from the additional subsoil chisel on which it is mounted and mountable on one of the front subsoil chisels.

3. A farm implement of the character defined in claim 1, wherein the mounting means includes a parallelogram linkage connecting the frame sections to one another, and an extendible and retractable means connecting the linkage to one of the frame sections.

4. A farm implement of the character defined in claim 1, wherein the gauge wheel means comprises at least one gauge wheel pivotally mounted on the forward frame section in position to engage the ground level forwardly of the front set of subsoil chisels.

5. A farm implement of the character defined in claim 4, wherein said gauge wheel means also includes extendible and retractable means for raising and lowering each wheel with respect to the forward frame section.