Harvesters – Cornstalk type – Cutters
Patent
1976-05-07
1977-09-13
Kinsey, Russell R.
Harvesters
Cornstalk type
Cutters
A01D 4502
Patent
active
040473660
ABSTRACT:
A tobacco topping apparatus is provided, suitable for mounting on a tobacco harvester, the tobacco topping apparatus having a housing assembly in which power operated cutting means having a substantially horizontally disposed cutting blade for topping a tobacco plant and severed flower portion clearing device are secured; the assembly having a front opening therein opening in the direction of movement of the apparatus down a row of tobacco plants, when the apparatus is used to top such row of tobacco plants, a wall formation having a discharge opening therein, the area of the wall formation in which the discharge opening is situate being determined by the direction of rotation of the cutting blade of the cutting means, a base having diverging edge portions defining guide means leading into an inlet slot opening in the leading edge of the base in the direction of movement of the apparatus when the apparatus is used to top tobacco plants, the guide means for guiding the stalk of the plant into the slot, and a deflector disposed adjacent the discharge opening in the wall formation for deflecting the flower portions discharged through the opening and deposit them between the rows of tobacco plants; power operated blower means surmounting the assembly adjacent the front opening of the hopper assembly for directing air downwardly onto the upper leaves of the tobacco plant when the apparatus is moved down the row of tobacco plants, to initiate the deflection of the leaves downwardly to expose the flowering portion prior to the base passing over the deflected leaves.
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Balthes Garry
Balthes John
Palmer William
Balthes Farm Equipment Manufacturing Limited
Kinsey Russell R.
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