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US 2017/0280626 A1Published application
Modular platform for cutting sugar cane
AssigneeIndúStrias Reunidas Colombo Ltda
InventorLuiz Henrique BERTINO
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Abstract
An agricultural harvesting machine for harvesting sugar cane, with means for working coupled to a tractor or any self-propelling machine, by using mechanic power (TDP) converted into hydraulic power (pump) to activate different devices of a set, so that it may form a wire cutting front for lanes of plants which are cut and thrown behind over the soil and organized in rows for later collecting and processing.
Claims8
A modular platform for harvesting sugar cane plants, comprising:
- (A) a triangle-shaped modular structure, constructed and arranged to be coupled to a tractor or a self-propelled automotive machine;
- having a lower horizontal assembly plane, a sloped rear assembly plane and a sloped front assembly plane;
- two external sides;
- and having wheels assembled on each external side adjacent to the sloped rear assembly plane;
- (B) a mouth structure attached and hinged to the sloped rear assembly plane of the modular structure, the mouth structure having coupling means for the platform to be connected fixedly to corresponding parts of the tractor or the self-propelled automotive machine, and allowing the modular structure to create a pendulum movement;
- (C) a continuous cutting wire device mounted under the lower horizontal assembly plane of the modular structure, the cutting wire device having a continuous steel cable cutting wire assembled forming a horizontal cutting line extending throughout the width of the modular structure, and at least two parallel traction pulleys, the pulleys constructed and arranged to move the cutting wire to cut the plants at a base portion;
- (D) multiple lane dividers, mounted on the sloped front assembly plane, each comprising rotating helical rollers, constructed and arranged to separate interlaced sugar cane plants between adjoining lanes to be harvested, wherein the plants from each lane are guided towards inlet gaps, having two extremities and located between the multiple lane dividers, by guiding sets, allowing the plants to be sloped forwardly for harvesting;
- (E) a vertical pulling set, comprising at least two rotating units for each plant lane, vertically positioned on each of two extremities of each inlet gap, with each rotating unit having toothed rules and formed by a lower disc positioned parallel to and above the cutting wire device;
- and a horizontal pulling set, having at least a pair of upper pulling rollers and a pair of lower pulling rollers axially aligned in pairs and with each pulling roller having toothed rulers;
- wherein the vertical and horizontal pulling sets, constructed and arranged to direct the harvested plants by pulling towards inside the platform, and moving the plants behind the structure in rows;
- wherein all moving parts of the structure are activated by hydraulic pumps;
- and the modular structure is able to balance by raising and lowering the structure, and
- wherein the structure constructed and arranged to form a harvesting front for sugar cane plants with the balance of the modular structure shifting in a manner that the cutting front remains parallel to the ground.
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