Harvesters – Horse rakes – Side delivery
Patent
1985-07-02
1988-03-15
Weiss, John
Harvesters
Horse rakes
Side delivery
56372, 56376, 56366, 56DIG21, A01D 7800, A01D 7810
Patent
active
047304472
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for laterally displacing and inverting a windrow of crop material is disclosed wherein a pickup engages a windrow of crop material along a first path and elevates the windrow into a table where it is conveyed in a semi-circular path by a horizontal conveyor until it is rolled off a discharge edge of the table into a second path laterally displaced from the first path. The speed relationship between the horizontal conveyor and the forward movement of the apparatus is such that the elevated windrow of crop material is gently rolled off the discharge edge of the platform in such a manner that the windrow is inverted when it engages the ground. A method of laterally displacing and inverting a windrow of crop material is also disclosed wherein the windrow is gently picked up, conveyed and turned upside down without the need for a structural device to engage the windrow and positively invert it. This method of turning a windrow of crop material results in a laterally displaced windrow that has been fluffed to more efficiently facilitate the drying thereof.
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Fisher Jacob M.
Stoltzfus Ivan L.
Marquette Darrell F.
Miller Larry W.
New Holland Inc.
Seemar Frank A.
Weiss John
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