Conference Proceedings

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Evaluating Strength & Energy Requirements for Workers Picking Vegetables (with J. Miles, J. Meyers, and J. Mehlschau), 1994 American Society of Agricultural Engineers Summer Meeting Proceedings: Kansas City, MO (1994)

The paper discusses the need to obtain field data to evaluate the strength and energy...

 

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Spray Drift Reduction with Shrouded Boom Sprayers (with Ronald J. Fehringer), 1990 International Summer Meeting Proceedings: Columbus, OH (1990)

Downwind drift was measured from a standard boom sprayer and a shrouded boom sprayer. Using...

 

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Guarding Against Machine Hazards, 1988 International Winter meeting of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers Proceedings: Chicago, IL (1986)

Successful guarding strategies requires knowledge of machine functions, the physical and psychological characteristics of man,...

 

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Evaluation of Two Models for Light Transmission in Biological Materials (with S. Upadhyaya, M. O'Brien, and T. Cahill), 1985 Winter Meeting American Society of Agricultural Engineers Proceedings: Chicago, IL (1985)

Two light transmission models for biological materials are developed and evaluated. The energy balance model...

 

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A Light Transmission Model for Biological Materials (with Shrinivasa Upadhyaya and Michael O'Brien), 1984 Winter Meeting American Society of Agriculutral Engineers Proceedings: New Orleans, Louisiana (1984)

This paper describes a model to predict light transmission in biological materials. The model can...

 

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Guarding of Table Saws with Light Beams: The Light Guard Concept (with M. S. Kaminaka and C. M. Zahner), 1984 Winter Meeting American Society of Agricultural Engineers Proceedings: New Orleans, Louisiana (1984)

This paper describes a unique type of psychological safety guard for hazardous tools such as...

 

Patents

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Method for Stemming Tomatoes (with Henry F. Studer and Gene Giacomelli), Untied States Patent Number 4,472,444 (1984)

Method and apparatus for de-stemming picked tomatoes. Each tomato is introduced into the upper end...