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US 8,171,707 B2Granted
Corn stalk rollers
AssigneeKitchel Enterprises, LLC
InventorBrandon Kitchel
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Abstract
Corn stalk rollers, comprising a plurality of roller assemblies pivotally mounted to and spanning the corn head of a corn harvest combine; an apparatus to bias the plurality of roller assemblies into contact with the ground while the corn harvest combine is harvesting corn; and chevron-patterned protrusions on each of the plurality of roller assemblies for providing ground traction and for aiding in crushing harvested corn stalks to ground level corn-field-wide.
Claims3
Corn stalk rollers, comprising
- a plurality of roller assemblies pivotally and removably mounted across the corn head lower lateral tubing structure of a corn harvester combine whereby the roller assemblies are mounted to the corn harvester combine ahead of the front tires of the combine;
- means to bias the plurality of roller assemblies into contact with the ground while the corn harvester combine is harvesting corn in a corn field;
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- chevron-patterned protrusions spanning the widths of each of the roller assemblies to provide ground traction and to aid in crushing harvested corn stalks to ground level whereby when the corn harvester combine has completed the harvest of the entire corn field all harvested corn stalks in the corn field have been uniformly crushed to ground level by the plurality of roller assemblies.
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