Harvesting machine having non-circular extractor cleaning chamber
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsMatthew J. Hansen, Dusk S. Mixon, Todd J. Rodrigue, Mark S. Louviere, Jae-Jae Young
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AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsMatthew J. Hansen, Dusk S. Mixon, Todd J. Rodrigue, Mark S. Louviere, Jae-Jae Young
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A separator for a crop harvester configured to harvest sugarcane. The separator includes an extractor body that defines a chamber, the chamber extending through the extractor body and is in fluid communication with a cavity of a fan housing. The extractor body can generally define an inlet opening of the chamber, the inlet opening positioned to allow chopped billets and crop residue that are outputted from a chopper assembly to enter into the chamber. The inlet opening has a non-round, or non-circular configuration and/or cross sectional shape. Further, the inlet opening can have a width similar to a material flow width of the chopped billets and crop residue being outputted from the chopper assembly. Such a configuration can eliminate dead zones with respect to air flow that is to pull the chopped crop materials into the chamber and/or to separate crop residue from the chopped billets.
An extractor for a crop harvester configured to receive a crop material outputted from a chopper assembly of the crop harvester, the extractor comprising:
An extractor for a harvesting machine, the extractor comprising:
An extractor comprising:
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