Sod collector
OwnerSijtze Leijenaarinventor
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Abstract
A sod-collecting apparatus, comprising a collecting platform (70) for supporting juxtaposed rows of coiled sods, a feed conveyor (20, 310) for feeding coiled sods, and a conveyor belt (40, 50, 330) downstream of said feed conveyor, said conveyor belt extending along the collecting platform (70, 350), wherein the feed conveyor (20, 310) and the conveyor belt (40, 50, 330) are arranged for displacing the coiled sods on the conveyor belt (40, 50, 330) along the collecting platform (70, 350) in a direction parallel to an axial body axis of coiled sods located on the conveyor belt (40, 50, 330), with a positioning structure for stopping each individual sod on the conveyor belt in at least one predetermined position along the collecting platform (70, 350).
Claims30
A sod-collecting apparatus, comprising
- a collecting platform (70, 350) for supporting juxtaposed rows of coiled sods,
- a feed conveyor (20, 310) for feeding coiled sods, and
- a conveyor belt (40, 50, 330) downstream of said feed conveyor, said conveyor belt extending along the collecting platform (70, 350), wherein the feed conveyor (20, 310) and the conveyor belt (40, 50, 330) are arranged for displacing the coiled sods on the conveyor belt (40, 50, 330) along the collecting platform (70, 350) in a direction parallel to an axial body axis of coiled sods located on the conveyor belt (40, 50, 330), with a positioning structure for stopping each individual sod on the conveyor belt in at least one predetermined position along the collecting platform (70, 350).
A method for collecting coiled sods on a collecting platform (70, 350), comprising
- feeding coiled sods,
- passing the coiled sods along a collecting platform (70, 350),
- stopping each fed sod individually at a predetermined position along the collecting platform, and
- displacing sods from the predetermined position to the collecting platform.
A sod-collecting apparatus, comprising
- a collecting platform (70) for supporting juxtaposed rows of coiled sods,
- a feed conveyor (20) for feeding coiled sods, and
- a conveyor belt (40, 50) downstream of said feed conveyor, said conveyor belt extending along the collecting platform (70),
- wherein the feed conveyor (20, 310) and the conveyor belt (40, 50, 330) are arranged for displacing coiled sods on the conveyor belt (40, 50, 330) along the collecting platform (70, 350) in a direction parallel to an axial body axis of coiled sods located on the conveyor belt (40, 50, 330), with a positioning structure for stopping each individual sod on the conveyor belt in at least one predetermined position along the collecting platform (70, 350), the positioning structure being provided with at least two stops (62, 65, 69) in different positions along said conveyor track (40, 50), said stops (62, 65, 69) each defining one of said predetermined positions.
A sod-collecting apparatus, comprising
- a collecting platform (350) for supporting juxtaposed rows of coiled sods,
- a feed conveyor (310) for feeding coiled sods, and
- a conveyor belt (330) downstream of said feed conveyor, said conveyor belt extending along the collecting platform (350),
- wherein the feed conveyor (310) and the conveyor belt (330) are arranged for displacing the coiled sods on the conveyor belt (330) along the collecting platform (350) in a direction parallel to an axial body axis of coiled sods located on the conveyor belt (330), with a positioning structure for stopping each individual sod on the conveyor belt in at least one predetermined position along the collecting platform (350), the positioning structure comprising a control (331) connected to the conveyor belt, said control being arranged for moving the conveyor belt to the predetermined position.
A method for collecting coiled sods on a collecting platform (70), comprising
- feeding coiled sods,
- passing the coiled sods along a collecting platform (70),
- stopping each fed sod individually at a predetermined position along the collecting platform,
- displacing sods from the predetermined position to the collecting platform, and
- stopping the sods individually by conveying the relevant sod up to a stop defining a predetermined position.
A method for collecting coiled sods on a collecting platform (350), comprising
- feeding coiled sods,
- passing the coiled sods along a collecting platform (350),
- stopping each fed sod individually at a predetermined position along the collecting platform,
- displacing sods from the predetermined position to the collecting platform, and
- stopping the sods individually by conveying the relevant sod over a given distance to a predetermined position by means of a conveyor belt extending along the collecting platform.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.