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US 4,798,248 AGranted
Method of harvesting beets
AssigneeWIC, Inc.
InventorWayne J. Schwitters
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InventorWayne J. Schwitters
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During the first pass across a field of row-planted sugar or red beets, the apparatus digs the beets from a specific number of rows (six being illustrated but the apparatus herein disclosed can be structured for four or five rows as well), elevates the beets at one side of the apparatus to a given height and discharges the elevated beets into a tank from which they are periodically re-elevated and discharged into a truck at the side of the apparatus opposite the side at which they are elevated and re-elevated, the truck trailing the apparatus over rows form which beets have been removed when not receiving re-elevated beets. On the next pass in a reverse direction across the field, the truck runs in the swath where the beets have been removed during the first pass, and the beets during the second pass are continually discharged into the the truck without resort to storage and without re-elevating the beets as done on the first pass. In this way, beets are run over by the truck only on the first pass, and even then to a minimum degree. Also the apparatus is better balanced by elevating beets at one side of the apparatus, and discharging them at the other side. A hydraulic system automatically controls certain motors in determining whether beets are to be discharged into a truck or stored. The apparatus additionally includes a special cleaning bed that assures a more complete cleaning of the beets.
A method of harvesting sugar or red beets comprising the steps of traversing a field of row-planted beets in one direction, removing the beets from certain of the rows in said field while traveling in said one direction, directing the removed beets to one side of the harvester, elevating the beets at said one side of the harvester to a predetermined height, shifting the elevated beets at generally said predetermined height to a location intermediate said one side and the opposite side of said harvester and shifting at least some of said elevated beets from said intermediate location to said opposite side for discharge into a transport vehicle adjacent said opposite side.
A method of harvesting sugar or red beets comprising the steps of removing beets from the soil during a first pass of a harvester across a beet field, elevating the removed beets to a given height at one side of the harvester, shifting the elevated beets part way toward the opposite side of the harvester, directing at least some of the beets at the elevated height to a lower height for temporary storage on the harvester, displacing at least some of said beets from storage and re-elevating said displaced beets at said one side to said given height, shifting the re-elevated beets at substantially said given height from said one side to a location residing somewhat beyond the opposite side of the harvester, and discharging said re-elevated beets into a transport vehicle adjacent said opposite side.
A method of harvesting sugar or red beets comprising the steps of removing beets from the soil with a harvester as the harvester passes across a beet field, elevating the removed beets only at one side of the harvester to a given height at said one side, and shifting at least some of the elevated beets at generally said given height to a location somewhat beyond the opposite side of said harvester.
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