Apparatus for handling harvested material
AssigneeHassy Horticultural Development Ltd.
InventorJohn C. Green
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Abstract
Apparatus for transferring harvested material from a harvester into a trailer moving alongside the harvester at a slightly faster rate, for which purpose a conveyor inclined at an oblique angle to the direction of motion of the vehicles is loaded with harvested material and a shuttling means reciprocates the conveyor and its drive means in the conveying direction while a drive interrupting means causes the conveyor to be driven only during one sense of the reciprocating drive of the shuttling means.
Claims10
Apparatus for use in handling material harvested by a first vehicle and loaded from the first vehicle on to a second vehicle travelling alongside the first vehicle;
- the apparatus comprising:
- a base mounted on the first vehicle, a conveyor support mounted on the base, a conveyor and conveyor drive means carried by the conveyor support for conveying harvested material from the first vehicle towards the second vehicle in a conveying direction which lies at an oblique angle to the direction of motion of the vehicles, shuttle means arranged to cause the conveyor support to reciprocate on the base parallel to the conveying direction, drive interrupting means connecting the shuttle motion with the conveyor drive means to cause the conveyor to be driven only during one sense of reciprocation of the conveyor support, and throttle means on the respective vehicles for adjusting the relative speeds of the vehicles in relation to the value of said oblique angle of the conveying direction to cause the harvested material to be delivered to said second vehicle in uniform layers, with the harvested material in successive conveyor operations between its drive interruptions laid in rows at right angles to the direction of travel of the vehicles and across the width of the second vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.