Harvesters – Motorized harvester – Including plural operating units and drive
Patent
1997-06-27
1999-04-20
Melius, Terry Lee
Harvesters
Motorized harvester
Including plural operating units and drive
56 164B, 56DIG1, A01D 4310
Patent
active
058947167
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for processing plant material in which a first rotatable crushing roller with an outer generally cylindrical surface cooperates with a second adjacent rotatable crushing roller also having an outer generally cylindrical surface. The rollers, mounted with their surfaces positioned in close proximity to each other, rotate in opposite directions to receive and crush plant material. A unique rotatable impact rotor having a plurality of outwardly extending projections is mounted rearwardly of the crushing rollers for impacting plant material that has passed between the rollers to macerate the plant material that has been previously crushed by the rollers. The crushed and macerated plant material is diverted and again impacted one or more times by the outwardly extending projections of the impact rotor after which it is deflected in rearward path by a variably positioned baffle.
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Haldeman Peter P.
Kraus Timothy J.
Shinners Kevin J.
Melius Terry Lee
Miller Larry W.
New Holland North America Inc.
Seemar Frank A.
Stader J. William
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