Module feeding apparatus
AssigneeContinental Conveyor & Equipment Co., Inc.
InventorsJose G. Condarco, John E. McClesky, Pedro Condarco, Charles V. Brown
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Abstract
Module reclaim apparatus comprising a housing open at the bottom and an end and movable over a stack of seed cotton or other fibrous modules. The housing carries a descending series of pronged feeder rollers near one end which release fibers from the adjacent end of the module and throw same onto a transversely traveling conveyor for ultimate delivery, for instance, to the gin equipment. A rotary sweeper returns escaped fibers to the feeder rollers and a novel jacking system provides for adjusting the vertical positioning and levelling of the housing. A door at the forward end of the housing moves against the rear end of the module when the fibrous remnant is too thin to be self-supporting.
Claims5
Apparatus for releasing fibrous material from modules, bales, or the like thereof comprising movably mounted framing with transversely spaced transport elements, a top member, a plurality of powered, rotary fiber release bodies depending below said top member, means for transporting the apparatus against and through a module in its path to cause said bodies to progressively remove fibers from said module, a module back-up member normally carried by said top member in position to clear said module, and means to shift said back-up member against the end of said module opposite said release bodies, as said bodies approach said end, to support the module remnant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.