Unearthing plants or buried objects – Stone gathering and/or unearthing by impelling above-ground...
Patent
1983-01-03
1985-01-29
Eskovitz, Jay N.
Unearthing plants or buried objects
Stone gathering and/or unearthing by impelling above-ground...
56377, A01B 4300
Patent
active
044960034
ABSTRACT:
Rock gathering apparatus including a frame portion, a rock advancing portion and a drive portion; the frame portion including a wheeled carriage section, a hitch member extending from the wheeled carriage section; the rock advancing portion including a pair of pivotable wing sections extending outwardly from the frame portion in opposite directions, a wheeled carriage disposed adjacent the outer end of each wing section, the wing sections being normally disposed with the outer ends thereof forward of the adjacent inner ends thereof, each of the wing sections including a rake section, each of the rake sections including a central horizontal axle, a plurality of spaced finger members extending radially from the central axle, the finger members being arranged in a continuous spiral pattern; mechanism for adjusting the position of the rake sections with respect to the ground; the drive portion including mechanism for rotating the central axles, the drive mechanism including an arrangement of gears disposed adjacent the outer ends of the wing sections; whereby as the rock gathering apparatus is moved over a field the rocks are advanced by the rake sections toward the space between the adjacent inner ends of the wing sections and collected in a continuous windrow.
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Eskovitz Jay N.
Urban Arthur L.
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