Unearthing plants or buried objects – Methods of recovering buried objects
Patent
1987-08-24
1989-01-17
Garrett, Robert E.
Unearthing plants or buried objects
Methods of recovering buried objects
171236, 171 58, A01D 2504, A01D 6100
Patent
active
047982489
ABSTRACT:
During the first pass across a field of row-planted sugar or red beets, the apparatus digs the beets from a specific number of rows (six being illustrated but the apparatus herein disclosed can be structured for four or five rows as well), elevates the beets at one side of the apparatus to a given height and discharges the elevated beets into a tank from which they are periodically re-elevated and discharged into a truck at the side of the apparatus opposite the side at which they are elevated and re-elevated, the truck trailing the apparatus over rows form which beets have been removed when not receiving re-elevated beets. On the next pass in a reverse direction across the field, the truck runs in the swath where the beets have been removed during the first pass, and the beets during the second pass are continually discharged into the the truck without resort to storage and without re-elevating the beets as done on the first pass. In this way, beets are run over by the truck only on the first pass, and even then to a minimum degree. Also the apparatus is better balanced by elevating beets at one side of the apparatus, and discharging them at the other side. A hydraulic system automatically controls certain motors in determining whether beets are to be discharged into a truck or stored. The apparatus additionally includes a special cleaning bed that assures a more complete cleaning of the beets.
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patent: 4116279 (1978-09-01), Kiburn
patent: 4197916 (1980-04-01), Haverdink et al.
patent: 4699218 (1987-10-01), Schwitters
"Sugarbeet Harvester" advertising brochure, WIC Inc., Halstad, MN 56548.
"Sugarbeet Harvesters" advertising brochure, Parma Company, Parma, Idaho 83600.
Garrett Robert E.
Newholm Therese
Wic Inc.
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