Gregory W Arnett

US Patent:

6860335, Mar 1, 2005

Filed:

Dec 19, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/324470

Inventors:

Gregory W. Arnett - Solomon KS, US

Assignee:

Great Plains Manufacturing, Incorporated - Salina KS

International Classification:

A01B073/06

US Classification:

172311, 172456, 172459, 111 57

Abstract:

A multiple section, front-folding implement has gauge wheel assemblies located on the front side of laterally extending beams of the sections during field operations. As the wing sections are folded forwardly to prepare the machine for transport, the gauge wheel assemblies are simultaneously swung around to the ends of the beams into outboard positions so that they extend generally forwardly from the beams when the beams are fully folded. Thus, instead of taking up space between the folded beams, the gauge wheel assemblies are moved into clearance positions that enable the wing sections to be folded more closely together, reducing the overall roading width of the machine when folded.

US Patent:

8333161, Dec 18, 2012

Filed:

Dec 30, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/649726

Inventors:

Gregory W. Arnett - Solomon KS, US
Thomas J. Evans - Salina KS, US

Assignee:

Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc. - Salina KS

International Classification:

A01C 5/00
A01C 13/00

US Classification:

111193, 111195

Abstract:

A seed furrow closing wheel has a generally dish-shaped body defined by a central portion and a notched outer flange portion that circumscribes the central portion and projects obliquely outwardly from the plane thereof. The notched flange portion is configured to present a series of circumferentially spaced, non-radial, obliquely projecting teeth that function to fragment and squeeze together opposite sidewalls of the seed furrow when a pair of the wheels are rolled along opposite sides of the furrow outboard of the furrow itself, crumbling the sidewalls and covering the seeds.

US Patent:

20060191928, Aug 31, 2006

Filed:

Feb 17, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/060035

Inventors:

Timothy Ptacek - Salina KS, US
Gregory Arnett - Solomon KS, US

International Classification:

B65D 88/00

US Classification:

220002000

Abstract:

A preferred embodiment of the hose coupling includes an exterior, annular rib on the tubular inlet member to which the hose is to be connected. A resilient boot fixed to the end of the hose has a skirt that extends beyond the end of the hose and is adapted to receive and circumscribe the ribbed end of the inlet member. The skirt and ribbed end of the member are so dimensioned that in order to receive the member, the skirt must be stretched radially outwardly by the rib as the skirt is forced onto the inlet member. When the skirt is fully seated upon the inlet member, the rib becomes received within an annular groove inside the skirt and the skirt relaxes to its original dimension. A lock ring circumscribing the boot may be shifted from an unlocked position inboard of the groove to a locked position outboard of the groove, wherein the ring prevents expansion of the skirt to thereby effectively lock the rib within the retaining groove.

US Patent:

6308645, Oct 30, 2001

Filed:

Dec 30, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/475866

Inventors:

Kevin J. Newkirk - Salina KS
Gregory W. Arnett - Solomon KS
J. Michael McClure - Lindsborg KS

Assignee:

Great Plains Manufacturing, Incorporated - Salina KS

International Classification:

A01C 506

US Classification:

111 63

Abstract:

A seeding machine has a common, bulk seed container that supplies a number of independent openers, each of which is provided with its own separate metering device. Each metering device is gravity-fed through a telescoping supply tube connected between the top of the metering device and the bottom of the seed container. Each metering device has a relative narrow metering wheel rotatable about a transverse horizontal axis that is provided with one or more rows of seed pockets on its outermost peripheral edge. As the wheel rotates upwardly through a pool of incoming seeds that have collected generally above the wheel in a seed chamber inside the metering device, the pockets become filled by gravity with seeds and then successively discharged at the bottom of the downsweep side of the wheel. Spring-loaded retaining structure along the downsweep side of the wheel keeps the seeds within their respective pockets until the pockets reach the discharge outlet at the bottom of the meter, whereupon the seeds gravitate freely from the wheel in succession and are directed to the ground.

US Patent:

20210212249, Jul 15, 2021

Filed:

Jan 15, 2021

Appl. No.:

17/150785

Inventors:

- Salina KS, US
Benjamin M Smith - Yorktown VA, US
Rye DeGarmo - Salina KS, US
Gregory W. Arnett - Garden City MO, US
Craig A Reed - Salina KS, US
Chris Coleman - Salina KS, US

International Classification:

A01B 79/00
A01B 59/06
A01B 63/02
A01B 63/102
A01B 69/04
G05D 1/00
A01D 34/00
A01M 7/00

Abstract:

An autonomous agricultural system comprising an implement configured to perform an agricultural operation. The system additionally comprises an autonomous power unit for autonomously propelling the implement. The system further comprises a coupling assembly configured to connect the implement to the power unit. The coupling assembly provides at least six degrees of freedom of movement between the implement and the power unit.

US Patent:

20210051838, Feb 25, 2021

Filed:

Aug 24, 2020

Appl. No.:

17/001217

Inventors:

- Salina KS, US
Benjamin M. Smith - Yorktown VA, US
Rye DeGarmo - Salina KS, US
Gregory W. Arnett - Solomon KS, US
Craig A. Reed - Salina KS, US
Chris Coleman - Salina KS, US

International Classification:

A01B 69/04
G05D 1/02

Abstract:

An autonomous agricultural system comprising a mobile power unit including a frame and a power supply. A position of the power supply is shiftable with respect to the frame of the mobile power unit. The autonomous agricultural system additionally includes an implement releasably secured to the mobile power unit. The mobile power unit is configured to transport the implement. The mobile power unit is further configured to provide power from the power supply to the implement.

US Patent:

20210051843, Feb 25, 2021

Filed:

Aug 22, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/548559

Inventors:

- Salina KS, US
Alex Potuzak - Salina KS, US
Gregory W. Arnett - Solomon KS, US

International Classification:

A01C 7/12
A01C 15/00

Abstract:

A metering device for dispensing agricultural product from a bin. The metering device comprises a housing enclosing an interior space, and a metering assembly removably received within the interior space of the housing. The metering assembly is configured to convey agricultural product through the metering device. The metering assembly comprises a rotatable sub-shaft, a first metering wheel positioned on the sub-shaft and configured to rotate with the sub-shaft, a second metering wheel positioned on the sub-shaft and configured to rotate with the sub-shaft, and a dividing element positioned on the sub-shaft between the first metering wheel and the second metering wheel.

US Patent:

20200359541, Nov 19, 2020

Filed:

May 15, 2020

Appl. No.:

16/875064

Inventors:

- Salina KS, US
Gregory W. Arnett - Garden City MO, US
Verne A. Hubalek - Lindsborg KS, US

International Classification:

A01B 49/02
A01B 5/04
A01B 63/00

Abstract:

A ground-opening apparatus for an agricultural implement. The ground-opening apparatus comprises an opening disc for excavating a furrow in the ground, and a support assembly securing the opening disc to the agricultural implement. The support assembly comprises an upper bar, a lower bar, a forward bar, and a rearward bar. The upper bar and the lower bar extend generally in parallel relationship. The lower bar and the rearward bar are joined at a lower, rearward joint. A rotational axis of the opening disc extends through the lower, rearward joint of the support assembly.