Agricultural machine
AssigneeArchie Kidd Limited
InventorsIan Currie, Tom McMaster
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Abstract
An agricultural machine for picking up and chopping crop, particularly green crop such as grass to be made into silage, and comprising a picking up device for collecting crop from ground over which the machine is travelling and at least one chamber to which the crop is delivered from said picking up device through a lateral opening and the chamber containing a reciprocable ram movable towards and away from stationary knives in an open end of the chamber, the ram preferably having knives on its face presented towards the stationary knives, the movement of the ram towards the stationary knives causing the knives to co-operate to chop up the crop, the cut crop being discharged from the open end of the chamber into a collector cage.
Claims28
An agricultural machine for picking up and chopping crop comprising:
- a device for picking up crop from ground over which the machine is travelling;
- at least one chamber to which the crop is delivered from said picking up device, said chamber having an entry opening and a discharge opening;
- stationary knives are mounted near said discharge opening;
- a reciprocable ram in said chamber movable from a position in which crop can enter the chamber through the entry opening to a position towards the stationary knives, said chamber, knives and ram comprising a means for chopping the crop up;
- and a collector into which the crop is discharged from the discharge opening of the chamber.
An agricultural machine as claimed in any one of the preceding claims wherein the entry opening in the chamber is disposed laterially of the length of the chamber.
An agricultural machine for picking up and chopping crop comprising:
- a device for picking up crop from ground over which the machine is travelling;
- at least oen chamber to which the crop is delivered from said picking up device, said chamber having an entry opening and a discharge opening;
- stationary knives, said knives mounted near said discharge opening;
- a reciprocable ram in said chamber, said ram having knives on a face presented towards said discharge opening, said stationary knives mounted in the chamber and co-operable with said ram knives to chop up crop which can enter the chamber through the entry opening from the picking up device, the crop being cut between the knives on the ram and the stationary knives when the ram is moved towards the stationary knives;
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- a collector into which the crop is discharged from the open end of the chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.