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Class Number: 56 Class Title: HARVESTERS Subclass Subclass Number Title 1 MISCELLANEOUS 2 CONVERTIBLE 3 .Cutter and detachable conveyer ..Rake 4 ...Vertical axis 5 .Cutter and detachable catcher 6 GANG 7 .Rotating cutting reel 8 MARINE 9 .With conveyer 10.1 MOTORIZED HARVESTER 10.2 .With condition-responsive operation 10.3 ..Release or slip of drive in response to overload 10.4 ..Retraction of cutter-unit in response to obstruction 10.5 .With randomly-operative control of motor (e.g., for starting or stopping motor) 10.6 .With plural sources of power 10.7 ..For disparate functions 10.8 .With selective control of drive means 10.9 ..By valve for controlling fluid-pressure motor 11.1 ..By means for varying speed-ratio of drive 11.2 ..By means for reversing drive 11.3 ..By brake and disengageable drive (e.g., clutch) 11.4 ..By controlling plural drive trains 11.5 ...Including clutch-assemblages 11.6 ..By means for regulating tautness of belt drive 11.7 ..By clutch-assemblage 11.8 ...Connecting motor to cutter or transit wheels 11.9 .Having fluid-pressure or stored-energy motor 12.1 .With means for reconditioning cutter or picker 12.2 .With means for using heat or exhaust from engine 12.3 .With means for lubricating drive train 12.4 .With drive train for imparting compound movement to finger-like elements 12.5 ..Rotating and orbiting elements 12.6 .With separable or vibration-damping drive train 12.7 .Including cutter yieldably mounted on its drive means 12.8 .Including driven air-blower unit 12.9 ..For drawing vegetation to harvester 13.1 ...To suction head 13.2 ....With beater at suction head 13.3 ..For discharging crop from harvester 13.4 ...By blower on cutter-driving shaft 13.5 .Including plural operating units and drive 13.6 ..Separately-acting cutter units 13.7 ...For disparate cutting operations 13.8 ....In series arrangement 13.9 .....With conveyer between units 14.1 ..Separately-acting opposed-roller-couple units 14.2 ...With opposed-gatherer-couple unit 14.3 ..Gatherer unit and vegetation-cutter unit 14.4 ...Horizontal-axis-reel gathererr 14.5 ..Cutter unit and conveyer unit 14.6 ...With thresher or crop-separator unit 14.7 .Including motorized vehicle causing transit of harvester 14.8 ..With drive train to harvester powered by ground-engaging wheels 14.9 ..With hitch permitting movement of harvester relative to vehicle 15.1 ...With drive from motor for re-positioning harvester 15.2 ....Cutter assemblage re-positioned 15.3 ...With flexible drive train to repositionable harvester 15.4 ...By means for steering harvester 15.5 ...By means for adjusting harvester laterally 15.6 ...By hitch for separating harvester from vehicle 15.7 ...By resilient or universal-action hitch 15.8 ....For "floating" harvester 15.9 ...Hitch for pivoting harvester about horizontal axis 16.1 ....Tined crop-pickup rake on transverse pivot 16.2 ....Longitudinally-extending axis 16.3 ....With latchable lever means for pivoting harvester 16.4 .Having driven means for handling or treating crop 16.5 ..For separating one material from another 16.6 ..Delivering to receptacle or hopper 16.7 .Having motor on ground-supported carrier 16.8 ..With dispenser of fluent material 16.9 ..Motor used for plural devices or functions 17.1 ..And cutter adjustable relative to ground 17.2 ...By adjusting ground wheel or skid relative to carrier 17.3 ..And element guiding vegetation to cutter 17.4 ..And guard 17.5 ..And rotatable blade on motor shaft 17.6 ..And drive train to reciprocating or oscillating cutter 27.5 TOBACCO 28 COTTON 29 .Flail or whip 30 .Pneumatic 31 ..Individually directed 32 ..Nozzles 33 .Strippers 34 ..Comb 35 ...Moving 36 .Pickers 37 ..Individually directed 38 ...Endless belt 39 ....Manually operated 40 ..Rotary or oscillating 41 ...Spindle 42 ....Belt carried 43 .....Cam-track guide 44 ....Rotary carrier 45 .....Flexible spindle 46 .....Reciprocating 47 .....Cam-track guide 48 ...Drum 49 ..Endless belt 50 ..Spindles 51 CORNSTALK TYPE 52 .Stalk breakers 53 .Cutterss 54 ..Broom corn 55 ...Reel gatherer 56 ..Toppers with catchers 57 ...Reel gatherer 58 ....Horizontal axis 59 ...Endless-chain gatherer 60 ..With choppers 61 ...With catchers 62 ..With strippers 63 ..With toppers 64 ..With pickers or huskers 65 ...Reel gatherer 66 ...Endless-chain gatherer 67 ..Self-binders 68 ...Upright binder 69 ....Endless-chain gatherer 70 .....Binder position adjustable 71 ..With dischargers 72 ...Crane type 73 ....With gatherers 74 .....Reel 75 .....Endless chain 76 ...Endless apron 77 ....Reel gatherer 78 ....Endless-chain gatherer 79 ...Horizontally moving and tilting 80 ....With gatherers 81 .....Reel 82 .....Endless chain 83 ...Tilting 84 ....With gatherers 85 .....Spiral 86 .....Reel 87 ......Horizontal axis 88 .....Endless chain 89 .....Fixed 90 ...Retracting support 91 ....Reel gatherer 92 ...Reel gatherer 93 ...Endless-chain gatherer 94 ..With gatherers 95 ...Spiral 96 ...Reel 97 ....Horizontal axis 98 ...Endless chains 99 ...Fixed 100 ....Fixed cutter 101 ..Fixed cutter 102 ..Cutting members 103 .Pickers or huskers 104 ..Roller 105 ...Plurality of rows 106 ....With endless-chain gatherers only 107 ...Auxiliary ear detacher 108 ....With endless-chain gatherers only 109 ...Movable gatherer 110 ....Spiral 111 ....Endless chain onlyy 112 .....Adjustable roller frame 113 ..Fixed snapper 114 ...Comb 115 ....With knife 116 ..Moving comb 117 ..Moving knife 118 ...On endless chain 119 .Gatherers or guides 120 .Sheaf loaders 121 .Sheaf carriers 500 STALK CHOPPERS 501 .Gathering by air current 502 .With driven pickup 503 .Rotating on vertical axis 504 .Rotating on horizontal transverse axis 505 ..With transverse ledger plate 121.4 CUTTERS WITH PLANT OR CROP CONTACTING GAUGE (E.G., BEET TOPPERS) 121.41 .Laterally self-aligning gauging and cutting means 121.42 .With preliminary foliage arranging 121.43 .Plural cuts at successive heights and/or slitting 121.44 .With cut top disposal 121.45 ..Movable disposing members 121.46 .Gauge and cutter relatively adjustable responsive to height and/or size of plant 122 CUTTING, CONVEYING AND THRESHING 123 .Reciprocating cutter 124 ..Central swath, co-axial wheels 125 ..Longitudinally hinged cutter frame 126 SEED GATHERERS OR STRIPPERS 127 .Fixed comb 128 ..Rotary beaters 129 ...Central swath, co-axial wheels 130 .Moving comb 131 CUTTING, CONVEYING AND BINDING 132 .Wire-twister type 133 .Straw-band type 134 .Folding platform 135 .High outside binder 136 ..Folding binder frame 137 ..Binder position adjustable 138 ...Knotting 139 ..Knotting 140 .Upright binder 141 .Endwise delivery 142 ..Knotting 143 .Low down 144 ..Curved path 145 ...Knotting 146 ..Inside delivery 147 ...Knotting 148 ..Outside delivery 149 ...Through bull wheel 150 ...Knotting 151 ..Knotting 152 .Knotting 153 CUTTING AND CONVEYING 154 .Endless cutterr 155 .Oscillating cutter 156 .Rotary cutting reel 157 .Rotary cutting disk 158 .Reciprocating-cutter type 159 ..Folding platform 160 ..With binder's platform 161 ...Self-raking mechanism 162 ...Belt-carried endless path 163 ..Hand-raking mechanism 164 ..Self-raking mechanism 165 ...Gaveling tongs 166 ...Dumping catcher 167 ...Rotating 168 ....Reciprocating head 169 ....Vertical axis 170 .....Switch 171 ......Automatic control 172 .......Auxiliary manual control 173 ...Reciprocating 174 ....Belt actuated 175 .....Reciprocating belt 176 ...Vertical circuit 177 ....Belt carried 178 ...Horizontal circuit 179 ....Belt carried 180 ..Rake heads and arms 181 ..Endless carrier 182 ...Deflected course 183 ...Intermittent 184 ...With discharging catcher 185 ...Elevated delivery 186 ...Central cutter, co-axial wheels 187 ....Tilting platform 188 .....Pivoted tongue 189 .Swathing attachments 190 .Windshields 191 .Binder's platforms 192 CUTTING AND WINDROWING 193 CUTTING AND RAKING 194 CUTTING AND CATCHING 195 .Side cutter 196 ..Rear 197 ..Front 198 .Rotating cutting reel 199 ..Catchers 200 ...Discharging 201 .Manually propelled 202 .Catchers 203 ..Discharging 204 ...Revolving 205 ...Upwardly swinging rear gate 206 ...Rearwardly dropping member 207 SHELLED-GRAIN CATCHERS 208 PLATFORM ADJUSTMENTS 209 .Side hill 210 .Main frame 211 ..Traction operated 212 ..Vertically and longitudinally tiltingg 213 ...Simultaneous vertical adjustment 214 ..Vertical 215 ...Segment rack and pinion 216 ....Simultaneous 217 ...Simultaneous 218 TONGUE ADJUSTMENTS AND SUPPORTS 219 STANDING-GRAIN GATHERERS 220 .Rotating reel, horizontal axis 221 ..Adjustable position 222 ...With driving means 223 ....Sliding angular gear 224 ....Belt with adjustable tension 225 ....Concentric 226 ..Supplementary bat movement 227 ..Adjustable bats 228 TRANSPORTING ATTACHMENTS 229 CUTTING 230 .Railroad 231 ..Rotating cutting reel 232 ..Reciprocating cutter 233 .Hedge or plant-row trimmers 234 ..Plurality of cutters 235 ...All rotary disk 236 ...All reciprocating 237 ..Single cutter for top or side 238 .Successive cuts at different heights 239 .Hand-operated cutter 240 ..Oscillating 241 ...Single pair of shears 242 ..Reciprocating 243 ...Hand crank 244 .Endless cutter 245 ..Side cut 246 .Oscillating cutter 247 ..Vertical cut 248 ..Side cut 249 .Rotating cutting-reel type 249.5 ..Interchangeable cutting assembly 250 ..Sharpening 251 ..Auxiliary cutter 252 ..Cutter in front of wheel tread 253 ..Co-axial wheels central cut 254 ...Internal gear single pinion 255 .Rotating-cutting-disk type 256 ..Vertical cut 257 .Reciprocating central cutter 258 ..Co-axial wheels 259 ...Double sickle 260 ...Pitman drive 261 ....With lever 262 ...Cam drive 263 ....With lever 264 .Reciprocating side cutter 265 ..Through-wheel drive 266 ..Reversible 267 ..Horizontally folding 268 ..Rear cut 269 ...Co-axial wheelss 270 ....Cam or lever drive 271 ..Front cut 272 ...Co-axial wheels 273 ....Power-operated lift 274 ....Automatic clutch shipper 275 ....Double sickle 276 ....Lifting and rocking cutter bar 277 .....With foot lever 278 ......Gag lever 279 .......Cutter-bar mountings only 280 ......Cutter-bar mountings only 281 .....Gag lever 282 .....Cutter-bar mountings only 283 ....Lifting cutter bar 284 .....Cutter-bar mountings only 285 ......With foot lever 286 ......Gag lever 287 ....Cutter-bar mountings only 288 ..Alignments 289 .Cutter members 290 ..Endless 291 ...Horizontal orbit 292 ...With tension adjustment 293 ..Oscillating 294 ..Rotating cutting reel 295 ..Rotating cutting disk 296 ..Reciprocating 297 ...Double sickle 298 ...Sickles and guard fingers and bars 299 ...Sickles 300 ....Detachable sections 301 .....Detachable from end of bar 302 .....Auxiliary locking bar 303 ...Shoes and knife heads 304 ...Antifriction devices 305 ...Guiding clips 306 ...Shock absorbers 307 ...Guard fingers and bars 308 ....Modified finger 309 .....With ledger plate 310 ....Fingers only 311 .....With ledger plate 312 ....Supplemental lifting fingers 313 .....Socket for guard-finger point 314 .Track clearers and dividers 315 ..Supplemental vertical cutter 316 ...Reciprocating 317 ..Driven 318 ..With shoe-point socket 319 ..Foldable 320 ..Supplemental clearer 320.1 .Housing or guard 320.2 ..With discharge opening 321 ANTI-SIDE-DRAFT DEVICES 322 GRAIN WHEELS AND CASTERS 323 SEATS 324 GRAIN CRADLES 324.5 .Connectionss 327.1 VEGETABLE GATHERER 327.2 .Asparagus havester 328.1 FRUIT GATHERER 329 .Catchers 330 .Berry strippers 331 .Berry clippers 332 .Pole supported 333 ..Pivoted jaw 334 ...Chute 335 ..Pivoted knife 336 ...Chute 337 ..Sliding jaw 338 ..Sliding knife 339 ..Fixed detaching member 340 ...Chute 340.1 .Tree shaker 341 RAKING AND BUNDLING 342 .Hand 343 .Cord-knotter type 344 RAKING AND LOADING 345 .Endless carrier 346 ..Intermittent discharge 347 ...With movable feeder 348 ....Stationary rake teeth 349 ...Stationary rake teeth 350 ..Rear delivery 351 ...With movable feeder 352 ....Stationary rake teeth 353 ...Stationary rake teeth 354 ..Side delivery 355 ...With movable feeder 356 ....Stationary rake teeth 357 ...Stationary rake teeth 358 ..With movable feeder 359 ...Stationary rake teeth 360 ..Stationary rake teeth 361 .Intermittent discharge 362 .Walking rake 363 ..Auxiliary rake 364 .Lifting reels 365 COMBINED RAKES AND TEDDERS 366 .Side-delivery rake 367 .Revolving rake 368 .Draft dumping rake 369 .Transverse tedder crank shaft 370 TEDDERS 371 .Mower attachment 372 .Rotary, transverse axis 373 .Transverse crank shaft 374 .Tedder forks 375 HORSE RAKES 376 .Side delivery 377 ..Rotary 378 .Rear delivery 379 ..Revolving 380 ...Wheels supported 381 ....Fixed rake axis 382 ....Rake-tooth-engaging stopp 383 ...Rake-tooth-engaging stop 384 ..Wheel supported 385 ...Contractible 386 ...Draft dumpers 387 ....Direct draft 388 ....Frictional 389 ....Spur gear 390 ....Sliding bolt or bar 391 ....Pawl and ratchet 392 .....Transverse torsion rod 393 ...Hand lever pulled back to dump 394 ...Hand lever concentric with rake head 395 .Clearers 396 .Wheel supported 397 ..With lifting means 398 ...Draft operated 399 .Fenders 400 .Rake teeth and fastenings 400.01 HAND RAKES 400.02 .Rotary or endless 400.03 ..Impaling type 400.04 .Combined, convertible and attachments 400.05 ..With cutter, scraper or spreader 400.06 ...Directed oppositely to rake 400.07 ...Acting simultaneously with rake 400.08 ..With cleaner 400.09 ...With ground support 400.1 ...With actuating linkage 400.11 ..With guard or material receiver 400.12 ...Grappling type 400.13 ...With ground support 400.14 ..With ground support 400.15 ...Skid or runner type 400.16 .With plural sets of tines 400.17 .Broom type 400.18 ..Adjustable or expansible 400.19 .Adjustable, folding or take down 400.2 ..Biased pivoted head or tines 400.21 .Tines or teeth 401 SHOCKERS 402 .Automatic feed 403 ..Self-binding 404 ...Vertical position 405 ....Automatic shock-delivery trip 406 .....Oscillating sheaf-delivery member 407 ...Sheaf turned end for end 408 ...Forwardly tilting shock 409 ....Automatic shock-delivery trip 410 ..Vertical position 411 ...Rotary, vertical axis 412 ....Automatic shock-delivery trip 413 .....Oscillating sheaf-delivery member 414 ...Automatic shock-delivery trip 415 ....Alternating sheaf delivery 416 ...Alternating sheaf delivery 417 ..Sheaf turned end for end 418 ...Automatic shock-delivery trip 419 ..Forwardly tilting shockk 420 ...Automatic shock-delivery trip 421 ....Number 422 ...Feed stopped during shock delivery 423 ...Rearwardly opening former 424 ..Shock turned end for end 425 .Vertical position 426 ..Rotary, vertical axis 427 ..Direct drop 428 .Divided former 429 .Self-binding 430 .With compressor 431 .Props 432 COMPRESSING AND BINDING 433 .Cord knotter type 434 ..Adjustable position 435 ...Knotting 436 ..Pressure tripped 437 ...Upstanding compressor control 438 ....Packing 439 .....Knotting 440 ...Packing 441 ....Knotting 442 ...Knotting 443 ..Packing 444 ...Knotting 445 ..Knotting 446 ..Packers 447 ..Auxiliary manual trip 448 ..Needle cleaners and guards 449 ..Ejectors and discharge gates 450 ..Tension and take-up devices 451 .Wire twister type 452 ..Single wire 453 ...Curved binder arm 454 ....Laterally mounted 455 ....Forked end 456 ....Twister on binder arm 457 ..Twisters 458 .Band-tucker type 459 ..Straw band 460 ...Band forming 461 ....Rotating bundle 462 ...Band formers 463 .Prepared band 464 .Cord band and clip 465 ..Flat metal clip 466 GRAIN ADJUSTERS 467 .On deck 468 ..Head or butt evener 469 ...Oscillating 470 ...Endless apron 471 ..Feeders 472 ..Retarding arms 473 .Longitudinally moving straightening finger 474 SHEAF OR BUNDLE DISCHARGING CARRIERS 475 .Automatic discharge 476 ..Directly tilting 477 .Endless carrierr 478 .Folding tines 479 .Opening bottom 480 .Directly tilting 473.5 CARRIERS * ****************************** * DIGESTS * ****************************** DIG 1 Crusher DIG 2 Methods DIG 3 Ground effect DIG 4 Friction Drive DIG 5 With material distribution DIG 6 Clutches and gearing DIG 7 Remote control implement DIG 8 Air gathering DIG 9 Detachable implement DIG 10 Uneven terrain compensation DIG 11 Hydraulic DIG 12 Brush DIG 13 Bermuda grass cutters DIG 14 Hitch DIG 15 Condition responsive DIG 16 Movable cutter without stationary cutter bar DIG 17 Cutter details DIG 18 Handles DIG 19 Beaters and wipers DIG 20 Blades, reels and guards DIG 21 Raking and windrowing DIG 22 Underslung yieldable rotary mower DIG 23 Dehydrating DIG 24 Harvester guards