Crop tracking row units on cotton harvesters

Details Crop tracking row units on cotton harvesters Crop tracking row units on cotton harvesters

1996-07-11

1998-07-21

Melius, Terry Lee

Harvesters

Motorized harvester

With condition-responsive operation

56 28, 56DIG2, 56DIG15, A01D 4608

Patent

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057820724

ABSTRACT:
On an automatically-steered cotton harvester, a sensor follows a crop row of cotton plants and sends a signal to a computer controller when the crop row changes its position relative to a row unit on the harvester. The computer controller calculates the amount of deviation between the crop row and the center of the row unit, and sends a control signal to a solenoid valve to actuate a hydraulic cylinder, or to a relay to actuate an electric motor, to laterally move the row unit along a tool bar on which it is mounted to more closely align the row unit with the crop row.

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