Earth working – Tool – standard or connection – Latched in earth working position
Reexamination Certificate
2007-08-14
2007-08-14
Novosad, Christopher J. (Department: 3641)
Earth working
Tool, standard or connection
Latched in earth working position
C172S750000, C172S753000, C172S762000, C172S772500, C403S314000, C403S322100, C403S324000, C403S325000, C403S326000, C403S374100, C403S375000, C403S409100
Reexamination Certificate
active
11638811
ABSTRACT:
A cultivator sweep assembly having a sweep adapted for releasable attachment to a shank of a mobile agricultural apparatus. The sweep assembly includes a sweep having a more narrow profile, and a coupling attached to a tapered end portion of the shank and disposed between the sweep and the supporting shank. The sweep includes a stem portion that defines a housing configured to frictionally receive and engage the tapered end portion of the shank. The end portion of the shank having the coupling attached thereto is slidably received within the housing until a projection of the coupling is received through a top opening of the housing. The projection received through the top opening indicating that the end portion of the shank is sufficiently received within the housing of the sweep, and that the sweep is mounted to the shank with sufficient force.
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Novosad Christopher J.
Price, Esq. Gary K.
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