Unearthing plants or buried objects – Removable or alternate collection receptacles
Patent
1987-09-03
1990-11-20
Look, Edward K.
Unearthing plants or buried objects
Removable or alternate collection receptacles
171 18, 171 20, 171 23, 171 28, 171 40, 414501, 414540, 414633, A01D 1300
Patent
active
049711555
ABSTRACT:
A potato harvester having cooperative elements serving the functions of prividing an overall frame for the harvester with wheels for locomotion. A de-vining system utilizing a de-vining chain running between large top roller and a smaller bottom roller a pallet and worker stand, a sorting area to sort potatoes three ways and an area and system for discharge of filled pallets which cooperate in an assembly line process allowing for the intervention and participation of field workers with an automated process. The chief inventive portions being a pallet stand with an unloading forklift; Separation or sorting of potatoes onto conveyors which load the potatoes into the appropriate pallets depending on size while allowing for separation by hand of large and small potatoes from the average sized into three distinct areas by hand with waste disposal finished by hand; a refined digging and de-vining system designed to clear vines from the potatoes and carrier chain in a assembly line process.
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Friedlander Gregory M.
Look Edward K.
Newholm Therese M.
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