Harvesters – Tedders
Patent
1992-03-30
1994-05-10
Hornsby, Harvey C.
Harvesters
Tedders
56372, 366345, 2411017, 406 39, A01D 7800
Patent
active
053097033
ABSTRACT:
A mobile apparatus for turning, and otherwise agitating, compost materials in an elongated windrow, is described. The invention includes a chute structure, that can be moved into, and along, the windrow. A toothed drum, at the leading end of the chute structure, penetrates the compost material, and throws it upwardly, and rearwardly, onto an inclined conveyor. The conveyor transports the materials upwardly to a discharge point, located at the trailing end of the chute structure. Gravitational forces cause the materials to intermittently fall back toward the drum, thereby churning and mixing the materials. Pressurized air is continually sprayed onto the materials on the conveyor, in order to aerate the materials while they are being churned and transported.
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Cantor Frederick R.
Hornsby Harvey C.
Soohoo Tony G.
Wood's End Research Laboratory, Inc.
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