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Shield unit for cultivators

  • US 4,485,878 A
  • Filed: 09/30/1982
  • Issued: 12/04/1984
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/1982
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A shield unit for row crop cultivation comprising a pair of laterally spaced disks, curved arm means, a shaft adjacent one end of said arm means having portions projecting in opposite lateral directions from said arm means, one of said disks being rotatably carried on one of said laterally projecting portions of said shaft and the other of said disks being rotatably carried on the other of said laterally projecting portions of said shaft so as to mount said disks for rotation in parallel planes about an axis perpendicular to said arm means, and means adjacent the other end of said arm means for pivotally attaching the other end of said arm means to a cultivator shank having a sweep at its lower end, whereby when said sweep is cultivating a strip of soil between two crop rows, said disks travel between said rows and at both sides of the path traversed by said sweep.

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