Harvesters – Motorized harvester – Including cutter yieldably mounted on its drive means
Patent
1974-07-24
1976-03-23
Kinsey, Russell R.
Harvesters
Motorized harvester
Including cutter yieldably mounted on its drive means
56 135, 56503, A01D 3526
Patent
active
039451771
ABSTRACT:
A method of cutting sugar cane comprising the steps of passing in one direction through the growing cane a vehicle having mounted thereon two upwardly extending power driven combing elements spaced apart across the width of the vehicle; combing a narrow stretch of cane between the combing elements; flattening the cane beneath a flattening element mounted on the vehicle to the rear of the combing elements and spaced above the ground to extend transversely to the one direction; and severing the cane at its base by power driven rotating ground-following cutting means mounted on the vehicle to the rear of the flattening element.
Apparatus for carrying out this method includes, mounted on a propelling vehicle, two upwardly extending combing elements spaced apart across the width of the vehicle, a flattening element extending transversely to the direction of travel of the vehicle and spaced above the ground to the rear of the combing elements with respect to the direction of travel of the vehicle, a cutter mounted on the propelling vehicle to the rear of the flattening element, and means for transmitting a powered drive to the cutter, which cutter is adapted to sever, adjacent the ground, sugar cane flattened by the flattening element. The cutter includes a central rotatable hub assembly, a number of cutter blades extending outwardly from the lower end of the hub assembly, and means pivotally connecting the blades to the hub assembly along axes which permit each blade to swing up and down relative to the hub assembly and follow the contours of the ground along which the vehicle travels.
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patent: 3791114 (1974-02-01), Fowler
Hudson Colin
Scott Donald Alan
F. M. McConnell Ltd.
Kinsey Russell R.
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