Harvesters – Standing-grain gatherers – Rotating reel – horizontal axis
Patent
1979-05-07
1981-03-17
Hafer, Robert A.
Harvesters
Standing-grain gatherers
Rotating reel, horizontal axis
A01D 5702
Patent
active
042559219
ABSTRACT:
A bat board construction of a harvester reel for use in harvesting soybeans includes an elongated shield of tear drop configuration having its widest dimension at the top and its lower and narrowest portion secured to a substantially rectangular bat board and operatively secured at respective ends to a harvester reel for rotation therewith. The wide end of the shield is several times greater than the narrow end and of sufficient breadth so that as the narrow end enters the crop, the relatively wide top serves to maintain separation of the stems and pods of the plant to prevent their inherent tendency when in contact to cling together and to become wrapped around the bat and reel instead of being drawn into the operating mechanism of the harvester. The shield is of unitary construction or otherwise designed to be planar extending the length of the reel to eliminate open spacings, journals, bearings, washers and the like generally present in convention construction that provide areas where the plants can become wrapped around the bat and reel. Provisions are made to adapt this new construction to conventional unshielded bat boards of the type secured in immediately adjacent depending relationship to a support shaft.
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Adler Morton S.
Hafer Robert A.
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