Harvesters – Marine – With conveyer
Patent
1994-11-30
1996-01-30
Buiz, Michael Powell
Harvesters
Marine
With conveyer
A01D 4508
Patent
active
054872588
ABSTRACT:
A system is disclosed for the harvest of water hyacinths. The floating hyacinths are conveyed from their surface disposed growing disposition to a grinder. Grinding occurs with liberation of large amount of the plant contained water and exposure of the hyacinths' fibrous plant material which only becomes suitable for baling after grinding has occurred. Thereafter, the hyacinths' fibrous material is placed into a conventional baler where the now ground plant material adheres when baled into a cohesive mass. The baled fibrous material is then disposed of. For example, the baled material can be attached to rope, and pushed into the water with bales being serially attached one to another via the rope. One end of the rope is led ashore. Thereafter, the serially tethered bales are pulled floating from harvesting barge to a shore location where conventional removal of the compacted and baled fibrous biomass can occur. In one embodiment, the bales are further compacted on the shore before transport for fuel or other uses. In another embodiment, a shore mounted facility accumulates, grinds and bales the water hyacinth. Weighting of the bales for disposal by sinking is disclosed.
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