Telescoping coulter system and method
AssigneeSpudnik Equipment Company LLC
InventorsRainer Borgmann, Rainer Kemper
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Abstract
A telescoping coulter system for an agricultural machine, operable on ground and having a frame and a moveable structure, includes a coulter arm, having a proximal end with a pivot point, and a distal end bearing a rotatable coulter disk. An extension mechanism connects the frame to the coulter arm, and is configured to translate the coulter arm between a raised transport position not in mechanical conflict with the moveable structure, and a lowered operational position in which the coulter disk can contact the ground and is proximate to the moveable structure.
Claims20
A telescoping coulter system for an agricultural machine operable on ground, having a frame and a moveable structure, comprising:
- a coulter arm, having a proximal end with a pivot point, and a distal end bearing a rotatable coulter disk;
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- an extension mechanism, connecting the frame to the coulter arm, configured to translate the coulter arm between a raised transport position not in mechanical conflict with the moveable structure, and a lowered operational position in which the coulter disk can contact the ground and is proximate to the moveable structure.
A potato harvester having a telescoping coulter system, comprising:
- an intake, having a nose wing, the intake being moveable between a lowered operating position adjacent ground, and a raised transport position above the ground;
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- a coulter disk, moveable about a virtual pivot point from a lowered operating position, in which the coulter disk is proximate to the nose wing, and a raised transport position in which the coulter disk does not mechanically interfere with the intake or nose wing.
A method of making a telescoping coulter system for an agricultural device having a moveable structure, comprising:
- rotatably attaching a coulter disk to a distal end of a coulter arm;
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- attaching the coulter arm to an extension mechanism configured to translate the coulter arm between a raised position not in mechanical conflict with the moveable structure, and a lowered operational position in which the coulter disk can contact ground and is proximate to the moveable structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.