초록 ▼

Our transfer mechanism is attached to the front of a conventional combine. The transfer mechanism includes a number of longitudinally spaced rows of laterally spaced curved teeth or tines that move rearwardly and upwardly so that the tines of each row successively engage a growing or standing crop,

Our transfer mechanism is attached to the front of a conventional combine. The transfer mechanism includes a number of longitudinally spaced rows of laterally spaced curved teeth or tines that move rearwardly and upwardly so that the tines of each row successively engage a growing or standing crop, such as pinto beans or field peas, lifting the crop sufficiently so that the cutter bar of the combine effectively severs the crop adjacent the surface of the ground. Continued rearward and upward movement of the tines, while still engaging the severed crop, transfers the crop to a more elevated location adjacent the auger. When the tines reach the auger, the shaft on which those particular tines are mounted is angularly rotated so as to release or dump the severed crop onto a curved floor beneath the auger. The auger moves the cut crop laterally and then rearwardly into the threshing portion of the combine.

대표청구항 ▼

Crop havesting apparatus comprising a vehicle, a cutter bar carried on the forward end of the vehicle, means supporting said cutter bar at an elevation closely adjacent the surface of the ground over which said cutter bar passes for severing a rooted or standing vine crop, such as pinto beans, close

Crop havesting apparatus comprising a vehicle, a cutter bar carried on the forward end of the vehicle, means supporting said cutter bar at an elevation closely adjacent the surface of the ground over which said cutter bar passes for severing a rooted or standing vine crop, such as pinto beans, close to the ground, means for engaging said vine crop including a plurality of longitudinally spaced rows of laterally spaced curved tines, means mounting said longitudinally spaced rows of tines forwardly of said vehicle so that the tips or free ends of said rows of tines successively engage said rooted or standing vine crop at an elevation also closely adjacent the surface of the ground and slightly in advance of said cutter bar to lift a portion of said vine crop above said cutter bar while still rooted or standing sufficiently high for severance by said cutter bar of a lower portion of said vine crop at an elevation closely adjacent the surface of the ground as said vehicle moves fowardly, and means for moving said tines rearwardly towards said cutter bar and to cause said tips or lower ends of said tines to move rearwardly in a closely adjacent relation to said cutter bar so that said cutter bar severs said vine crop at an elevation generally beneath the beans on said vine crop, said spaced curved tines then transferring said severed crop rearwardly.