Elevating scaffold trailer
OwnerJay S. Eatoninventor
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Abstract
An elevating scaffold trailer is provided for transporting burley tobacco stalks impaled on tobacco rods from the field into a curing cell and subsequently out of the curing cell. The trailer comprises an elevating device for raising tobacco rod carrying devices above the height of holding racks within the curing cell. The trailer is transported into the curing cell whereby the elevating device lowers the tobacco rod carrying device below the level of the holding racks so that the tobacco rods are transferred to the holding racks. A method for gathering and transporting burley tobacco to a curing cell is also provided. The method involves using the elevating wheeled scaffold trailer to transport cut burley tobacco stalks to the curing cell and for transferring the tobacco to holding racks within the curing cell.
Claims20
An elevating tobacco trailer for transporting tobacco laden tobacco rods into or out of a curing cell of the type having holding racks across which the tobacco laden rods are placed, said trailer comprising:
- a steerable wheeled base, said wheeled base configured to be connected to a work vehicle;
- a generally upright frame structure raisably supported on said wheeled base;
- oppositely faced parallel tobacco rod carrying members supported by said frame structure, said carrying members spaced apart a distance so that tobacco rods which may be carried by said carrying members overhang each of said carrying members, said carrying members supported by said frame structure at a height so that tobacco stalks impaled on said tobacco rods carried by said carrying members hang freely within said frame structure between said carrying members;
- means for positioning said tobacco rods along said carrying members at predetermined intervals;
- means for raising and lowering said frame structure relative said wheeled base, said raising and lowering means operatively connected between said frame structure and said wheeled base;
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- whereby said trailer is movable into or out of said curing cell between said holding racks with said carrying members in a raised position, said carrying members being raised or lowered between said holding racks for depositing said tobacco rods upon said holding racks or picking up said tobacco rods from said holding racks.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.