Winding – tensioning – or guiding – Coil holder or support – Spool or core
Patent
1975-04-09
1976-09-28
Mautz, George F.
Winding, tensioning, or guiding
Coil holder or support
Spool or core
172 19, 214DIG4, 226172, 242 55, 242 687, B65H 1746, A01B 4500
Patent
active
039827119
ABSTRACT:
A sod laying machine has a body portion connected with a pulling vehicle and mounted on an inflated cylindrical ground engaging roller. A plurality of rolls of sod are supported on the body portion rotatably in axial adjacency by a group of freely rotating rollers. Pairs of conveyor belts, that have spaced metal cross members flexibly connected by links, extend around upper and lower rollers in the body portion to incline rearwardly downwardly from the entrance ends to the discharge ends thereof. The upper rollers are driven from the ground engaging roller and have projecting lugs engaging the cross members to positively drive the belts. Rotatable feeding members engage the sod rolls to transfer lengths of sod from the rolls to the entrance ends of the paired belt conveyors and the feeding members are driven through ratchet means from the conveyor driving means, the ratchet drive permitting manual rotation of the feeding means independently of the driving means. A clutch controls operation of the driving means from the ground engaging roller. The feeding members have cylindrical body portions that have outwardly projecting stiff rubber fingers thereon that have obliquely extending end portions engaging the rolls of sod.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3481556 (1969-12-01), McDonnell
patent: 3650330 (1972-03-01), Gieringer et al.
Bradley Frank M.
Markle Larry D.
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