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US 4,478,227 AGranted
Leaf stripping mechanism
OwnerCharles W. McKinney, Brittain H. McKinneyinventors
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Abstract
A leaf stripper for tobacco stalks and the like wherein the leaves are removed from the stalks by the stalks being pulled or forced through a cooperating spring loaded scraper bars and a roughly eliptically shaped opening in a flat plate and wherein the leaves are held by the invention until removed by an operator, and wherein the opening can be easily manually opened to allow fast insertion of the stalks by the operator.
Claims4
A tobacco stripper for removing leaves from a tobacco stalk comprising:
- a base;
- a plate having an elliptical opening attached to said base;
- crop pulling means rearward of said plate for pulling the tobacco stalks through said opening;
- means for varying the size of said opening, said size varying means comprising first and second scrapper bars pivotally attached at one of their ends to said plate on opposite sides of the opening, the bars intersecting at a point substantially along the vertical centerline of said opening;
- means for urging the ends opposite said attached ends of said scrapper bars relative to one another so as to move the point of intersection substantially along said centerline, thus varying the size of the opening so as to accommodate different size tobacco crops;
- the tobacco leavings being stripped by the intersecting bars along the region of the point of intersection and an edge of the elliptical opening.
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