Sugar cane planter

A sugar cane planter having a mobile frame for supporting a container for cut cane billets and means associated with said mobile frame for transporting cane billets from said container to a cane planting conveyor assembly associated with said mobile frame for delivery thereby to a guide chute adapted to direct said cane billets into a cane planting furrow;

• wherein said cane planting conveyor assembly comprises a plurality of elongate cane supporting members connected in spaced relationship around an endless conveyor assembly traveling around an upper rotatable support assembly and a lower rotatable support assembly, said cane supporting members extending across said endless conveyor assembly and being constructed and arranged for upward travel between said lower and upper support assemblies while in a substantially horizontal disposition one above the other and projecting outwardly from said endless conveyor assembly for supporting thereon a cane billet for travel over said upper support assembly and falling into said guide chute;
• and wherein a regulating means associated with said cane planting conveyor for regulating the rate of delivery of said cane billets into said guide chute comprises a gauge bar assembly located adjacent said lower support assembly and adapted to extend across said cane supporting members to provide a substantially vertical cane billet abutting face, said gauge bar assembly being selectively movable horizontally towards or away from said lower support assembly to vary the free portion of the cane supporting members which extend beyond said cane billet abutting face remote from said lower supporting assembly, said free portion being adapted to pass vertically through a bed of prealigned cane billets to collect a cane billet thereon and convey it to said guide chute.