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US 4,358,921 AGranted
Cotton stripper finger attachment
AssigneeAllis-Chalmers Corporation
InventorDan Pustejovsky
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Abstract
A cotton stripper of the finger type in which attachments (26, 26') are releasably secured to selected fingers (12, 12') to provide reduced spacing (b) when the attachments (26, 26') are mounted on alternate fingers (12, 21') and further reduced spacing (c) when the attachments (26, 26') are mounted on every finger (26, 26').
Claims6
In a cotton stripper having a header, the combination comprising:
- a plurality of transversely spaced elongated boll stripping fingers secured to said header and lying side by side at predetermined spacing and extending forwardly in a downwardly inclined plane, each of said fingers including an elongated main body of V-shaped cross-section with a downwardly directed apex, said main bodies being spaced from one another to provide boll stripping gaps therebetween, and
- elongated attachments of V-shaped cross-section nested on top of said main bodies of selected fingers, said attachments being of greater width than the main bodies of said selected fingers whereby the gap between the finger to which an attachment is mounted and an adjacent finger is less than the gap between said main bodies of said fingers without said attachment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.