Harvesters – Fruit gatherer
Patent
1994-02-24
1994-12-20
Novosad, Stephen J.
Harvesters
Fruit gatherer
A01D 5100
Patent
active
053736885
ABSTRACT:
A first and a second debris outlet on a fan housing having a single fan and single intake or suction opening on a nut harvester. The nut harvester being of the type having structure for picking nuts up from the ground and depositing the nuts onto a moving open conveyor chain to carry the nuts for deposit into a storage container. The harvester includes a debris removal system including the fan within the fan housing connected to intake ducting positioned to draw air through the open conveyor chain to draw debris from the nuts into the fan housing to be exhausted out onto the ground. The first and second debris outlets are positioned on opposite sides of the fan housing from one another, approximately 180 degrees apart, and positioned so that debris is discharged to the two oppositely disposed sides of the harvester. The present invention provides an arrangement for exhausting debris quickly after it enters the fan housing by way of greatly reducing the distance the debris must travel prior to being exhausted through the nearest debris outlet, and this provides less clogging and more consistent air drawing, and thus improved debris removal from the nuts. Additionally, the debris exhaust air stream is divided by two, resulting in less dust being created.
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Sousa Robert J.
Stanley Glenn A.
Novosad Stephen J.
Weiss-McNair, Inc.
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