초록 ▼

Butt lifter roller for lifting the butts of sugar cane sticks immediately after severing by the base cutter in a sugar cane harvester. The roller has V-shaped grooves of varying width extending round its periphery. Cane butts at least partially enter the grooves and are pinched or gripped therein an

Butt lifter roller for lifting the butts of sugar cane sticks immediately after severing by the base cutter in a sugar cane harvester. The roller has V-shaped grooves of varying width extending round its periphery. Cane butts at least partially enter the grooves and are pinched or gripped therein and lifted over the roller by rotation thereof.

대표청구항 ▼

A sugar cane harvester comprising base cutting means capable of severing canes from their roots, a rotatable feed member positioned adjacent the base cutting means to intercept canes severed by the base cutting means, and drive means capable of rotating the feed member, characterized in that the fee

A sugar cane harvester comprising base cutting means capable of severing canes from their roots, a rotatable feed member positioned adjacent the base cutting means to intercept canes severed by the base cutting means, and drive means capable of rotating the feed member, characterized in that the feed member includes spaced corrugated diScs that form ridges which define grooves extending around its axis of rotation with a width that varies from place to place along the length of said grooves, the dimensions of each groove being such that the end of a cane stick can at least partially enter therein.