Unearthing plants or buried objects – With above-ground means for detachment of plant part – Detachment by pulling – beating – shaking or crushing
Patent
1982-09-28
1983-11-22
Mancene, Gene
Unearthing plants or buried objects
With above-ground means for detachment of plant part
Detachment by pulling, beating, shaking or crushing
171126, 171129, 171133, 193 27, 193 32, 56327R, 56 146, 130 27P, A01D 1706, A01D 1708
Patent
active
044163347
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a potato harvesting apparatus for removing practically all the dirt from harvested potatoes without bruising or damaging them. The apparatus has disk coulters that cut potato vines between rows, three each of primary, secondary and rubber-coated cylindrical cages arranged in order for harvesting material flow of the potatoes with the cages rotating at the same material-flow speed, a share that digs up the potatoes for pick up and transfer by the first primary cage, a cylinder raker to pick up and move excess vines, dirt and potatoes onto the second primary cage, shaker-tine assemblies that remove dirt and separate vines from the potatoes, a grinder suction fan that sucks up and deposits chopped up vines in the harvesting track where same are covered by dirt sifting down and through the cages that remove most of the dirt and break up the dirt clods.
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Mancene Gene
Tarnoff David L.
Wessendorf, Jr. Walter F.
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