Elevator assembly and slewing mechanism for cane harvester

In a sugar cane harvester which includes a frame, means coupled to the frame for severing cane stalks from the ground and for chopping such stalks into billets and conveying such billets to a cleaning chamber for separating trash therefrom, and an elevator for conveying such billets from the cleaning chamber for dropping them into a storage container, an improved elevator position control mechanism, comprising:

• means for pivoting said elevator about a first vertical axis located below said cleaning chamber, including:
• a bracket pivotally mounted to said frame for rotation about said first vertical axis, said elevator being mounted to said bracket;
• a pair of slew control arms each including two links, said links of each pair being pivotally joined to one another proximate one end thereof to form an elbow joint rotatable about a second vertical axis;
• means pivotally coupling one of the links of each pair proximate the other end thereof to said frame for rotation about said second vertical axis;
• means pivotally coupling the other link of each pair proximate the other end thereof to said bracket on either side of the pivotal mounting of said bracket to said frame;
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• means coupled between positions on said frame or on the bracket and said elbows for selectively exerting push-pull forces on said arms for slewing said elevator about said first vertical axis to either side of the harvester.