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AssigneeDouble T Equipment Manufacturing Ltd.
InventorThomas M. Thomas
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A mobile machine and process are provided for milling, mixing, wetting and re-forming an initial windrow of vertically layered ingredients used in the pre-wet cycle for producing mushroom compost. In performing these actions, an assembly of toothed drums, rotating in the same direction and arranged along an upwardly and forwardly projecting inclined plane, progressively mills the windrow across its cross-section longitudinally and propels the milled material upwardly and rearwardly so that it drops and mixes to form a vertically blended, transverse product. The product is preferably cross-mixed by auguring it transversely and depositing it at a transfer point, from whence it is elevated and delivered by a conveyor belt, to form a new windrow parallel or collinear with the initial windrow. Water is sprayed on the ingredients in the course of propelling auguring and elevating. A generally uniform blending of the ingredients, coupled with aeration and wetting, creates favorable conditions for contained bacteria to work on the material. The procedure is repeated on each new windrow until the pre-wet cycle is complete.
A method of preparing a pre-wet cycle composting mixture for cultivating mushrooms which comprises:
Apparatus for preparing a pre-wet cycle composting mixture which is arranged in a windrow of vertically layered ingredients of predetermined proportions for cultivating mushrooms comprising:
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