A crop harvesting platform for a forage harvester or combine including a cutter, a crop-consolidating auger, and an improved crop-gathering reel. The reel sweeps a standing crop rearwardly for cutting by the cutter and conveyance by the auger rearwardly for subsequent harvesting steps. The reel is designed to operate without regard to the row-spacing, or density, or height of crops such as corn, milo, cane, sudex, and hay crops ranging from rye to alfalfa.

An amphibious vehicle of the type including opposite side endless track assemblies. The vehicle includes a main central body portion which extends longitudinally of the vehicle and defines a hollow elongated sealed flotation compartment above which the operator's position and driving motor of the vehicle may be disposed. The vehicle further includes opposite side laterally outwardly projecting and elongated generally horizontally disposed stub wing-type housings which are also sealed and define ...

An all terrain vehicle and a suspension system for an all terrain vehicle is disclosed with a drive system that affords steerage by braking the wheels on one or the other sides of the vehicle and without turning the wheels. The improved suspension system is provided with independently suspended wheels which can have interchangeable parts with each wheel independently adjustable to adapt the vehicle for travel over relatively rough terrain or over relatively smooth terrain. Provision is made to s...

A vehicle adapted to travel on both water and ice comprises: a vehicle hull; propulsion means carried by said hull; ski-like surfaces carried by said hull and mounted to permit their up-and-down movement relative to said hull; support means acting between said ski-like surfaces and said hull and arranged to provide at all times a substantial degree of support of the hull by the ski-like surfaces; fan means arranged to discharge air continuously into a space below said hull; and enclosure means a...

An animal trap wherein the housing is formed of sheet metal and the trap door is of a mesh construction wherein the animal can in no way gain access to one carrying the trap or one disposed adjacent to the trap. At the same time, the animal may be identified through the open-mesh trap door. The trap door is normally disposed in a recessed position underlying the vertical wall; and, when released by a control mechanism actuated by a trap pan, the door will automatically fall by gravity to a trap-...

A multiple purpose leveling device for use by craftsmen in all trades, embodying an elongated body having divergingly forked legs coextensive with the body length which enables the leveling device to be held on dead center of pipes and other round objects, and which legs are ruled adjacent planar feet portions, all of which cooperate to act as guides for placement of layout and coordinate lines when pipe layouts are required. Three 360.degree. circular tube spirit level inserts are readily detac...

This invention relates to a kit to adapt a snowmobile for all terrain use, wherein the skis, ski supporting frame and hood, are removed from the snowmobile and a frame wider than the frame of the snowmobile is fastened to the forward portion of the frame of the snowmobile, said frame supporting wheel and steering control members, the wheel and steering control members being connected to the steering plate of the snowmobile.

Disclosed herein is an all-terrain vehicle including a track suspension system affording both transverse and lateral resiliently flexible support to an endless track and a releasably locked and pivotally mounted rear bogie wheel assembly which, when pivoted from its normal operating position, affords assembly of or removal of the endless track relative to the sprocket and bogie wheels.

A onepiece carrier has a disc-like tray portion having openings for receiving cups and depressions for sandwiches and the like, and a tapered handle projects downwardly from the central portion of the tray to make the tray stackable. A lower disc of the handle serves to support the cups. A loading support having upstanding legs serves to receive the tray for loading. A second tray has a tapered handle and also has posts for standing the tray.

A holder for all items and the like is provided and consists of a flexible expandable sleeve made of durable material to hold the items within, a first attachment element affixed onto the sleeve and a second attachment element affixed onto a surface whereby the first attachment element is readily releasably from the second attachment element.