Cutting – With product handling means – Including means to divert one portion of product from another
Patent
1976-07-02
1978-04-18
Meister, J. M.
Cutting
With product handling means
Including means to divert one portion of product from another
83150, 83161, 83167, 83401, 83449, 83524, 83801, 83928, B23D 5300
Patent
active
040844650
ABSTRACT:
A sugar cane planting machine for eliminating the excessive manual labor previously required to plant sugar cane stalks. The uncut stalks are loaded in the rear of a tractor-pulled cart at the bottom of which is positioned a conveyor-like belt for moving the cane towards the front of the cart. Slideably attached on a transversely positioned guide member of a pivotable frame at the front of the cart is a combination cross-cutting and kicker-chain assembly which moves laterally across the width of the cart under hydraulic controls. Said assemblies include a downwardly extending chain saw which is followed by at least one vertically disposed kicker-chain, both preferably under the control of a common motor. Below the kicker-chain assembly is positioned a trough or hopper having an opening formed along the bottom thereof. After the stalks of the sugar cane have been loaded and extend across the cross-cutting path over the hopper, the assemblies are actuated to move the chain saw and kicker-chain laterally across the cart to cut the stalks into portions of planting length. The cut sections fall through the hopper to a pre-formed furrow in the ground. The following kicker-chain assembly assists in ensuring that the cut sugar cane does not become entangled and is properly downwardly displaced to fall through the hopper. After the cross-cutting and kicker-chain assemblies have made a complete traversal of the width of the cart, and the cut pieces have been distributed as desired, a hydraulic actuator retracts the assemblies to their starting position and the process is repeated.
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