Sugar cane harvester

Details Sugar cane harvester Sugar cane harvester

1979-09-10

1981-10-20

Hafer, Robert A.

Harvesters

Motorized harvester

Including plural operating units and drive

56 166, 56 61, A01D 4510

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active

042953251

ABSTRACT:
A sugar cane harvester has a wheel-mounted or equivalent main frame, a base cutter for cutting the cane near ground level as the harvester advances, a chopping cutter for cutting the cane stalks into billets, means for feeding the stalks from the base cutter to the chopping cutter, and means for elevating and discharging the billets, the chopping cutter and elevating means including a rotary cutter with a knife blade on a rotatable shaft, and a thrower having a vane extending from a thrower shaft, the two shafts being parallel and counter-rotated, the cutter knife blade and the vane coacting to sever cane fed to the chopping cutter into billets, the thrower vane acting to throw the severed billets upwardly through a cane guide chute from which they are discharged, preferably into a bin mounted on the main frame and capable of being tilted to empty its contents.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3100370 (1963-08-01), Blanshine
patent: 3599404 (1971-08-01), Fernandez et al.
patent: 4099365 (1978-07-01), Hudson
patent: 4154047 (1979-05-01), Quick

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