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7980048 |
Mechanism for harvesting tobacco plants in slotted rails
A mechanism for harvesting tobacco plants includes a magazine of rails. Each rail is elongated and hollow, with a slot along a bottom portion of each rail. Two opposing dispensing conveyors each...
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7975461 |
Tobacco cutting machine
A harvesting apparatus for row crops that includes a self-propelled carrier unit and a harvesting device. The carrier unit is a motor-driven vehicle. The harvesting device consists of an upper...
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6708474 |
Single pass tobacco harvester and method
An tobacco harvester which on a single pass through the field sorts tobacco leaves as the leaves are harvested based on the height at which they grow on the tobacco stalk. An adjustable guide...
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6446420 |
Method and apparatus for simultaneously topping tobacco and controlling suckers with chemicals applied to cut stems by mechanical means
A method and apparatus for simultaneously cutting and directing fluid into the stem of a tabacco plant, the apparatus including having a liquid delivery blade, a source of fluid communicating with...
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6354066 |
Apparatus for stick-spearing stalk-cut tobacco stalks
An apparatus for stick-spearing stalk-cut tobacco stalks which includes an endless belt having a plurality of stick-supporting claws and a plurality of stalk-transferring claws provided along its...
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6226968 |
Tobacco plant transport apparatus
After a cutter of a tobacco harvester cuts each tobacco plant, the cut tobacco plant has its stalk penetrated by toothed elements on two chains on opposite sides of the cut tobacco plant to advance...
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6185921 |
Method and two head apparatus for harvesting tobacco
The present invention relates to an improved tobacco harvester adaptable to various harvesting conditions without the necessity to manually remove and/or install defoliating blades or harvesting...
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6014853 |
Pull-type tobacco harvester
The present invention entails a pull-type tobacco harvester having a mainframe, a tongue projecting from the mainframe, a defoliating unit mounted on the mainframe, and a conveyor assembly disposed...
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5987862 |
Apparatus and method for simultaneously topping and applying a precision application of sucker control chemicals to tobacco and other row crops
An apparatus for simultaneously topping and precisely applying sucker control chemicals to tobacco plants and for related uses wherein the apparatus comprises a housing wherein the front and bottom...
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5499635 |
Tobacco harvester
A tobacco harvester for automatically harvesting only tobacco leaves in which leaf stripping claws of leaf stripping chains descend along a stem of a tobacco plant to strip down the tobacco leaves...
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5454217 |
Plant harvesting machine
A plant harvesting machine is organized as a wheeled tricycle having a plant elevator, plant inverter assembly, and plant sticking assembly and designed to move along a row of tobacco plants and...
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5428946 |
Row crop cutter and conveyor
A harvesting apparatus for use with fragile row crops such as tobacco where the produce or leaves must be handled with great care to avoid breakage or bruising. The apparatus has a conveyor system...
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5402804 |
Tobacco harverter
A tobacco harvester for automatically harvesting only tobacco leaves in which leaf stripping claws of leaf stripping chains descend along a stem of a tobacco plant to strip down the tobacco leaves...
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5400577 |
Tobacco harvester
A tobacco harvester includes a plurality of linearly spaced tobacco plant engaging flights attached to an endless chain at equal linear distances with the sensing of a tobacco plant at a first...
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5331980 |
Tobacco stripper apparatus
A tobacco stripper includes coplanar first and second stripper plates having confronting semi-cylindrical recesses coaxial relative to one another. The first stripper plate is arranged in a...
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5306114 |
Elevating scaffold trailer
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...
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5293733 |
Defoliating tobacco harvester
A picker bar assembly for a defoliating tobacco harvester is configured to receive tobacco stalks and strip them on both its descending and ascending runs without damaging the stalks. An improved...
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5148661 |
Tobacco harvester and use thereof
Aligning tobacco plants end to end in rows in a field with leaf ends trailing butt ends as the butt ends are picked up onto an elevating conveyor belt by turning it at the same speed as the ground...
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5131215 |
Track support for agricultural machines
An endless belt construction comprising a single endless belt composed of synthetic resin material molded integrally with a reinforcing member in a single length passed through the resin material...
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5081827 |
Tobacco spearing system
An oval track guides plates with tobacco stickholders thereon around the track so that workers at stations around the track can impale tobacco plants on the tobacco sticks in the stickholders as...
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5026322 |
Threshing device
The device has a first threshing rotor bearing a first number of radial blades, and a second counter-rotating loading rotor having a different number of radial blades. The rotors are arranged side...
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4836220 |
Tobacco leaf-stripping machine
The leaf-stripping machine of the present invention is provided with a pair of leaf-stripping rollers, the length of which is substantially the same as a tobacco stalk. The leaf-stripping rollers...
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4813216 |
Apparatus and method for automated tobacco harvesting
An apparatus and method for automated harvesting are providing. The apparatus includes a mechanism for cutting the stalks of plants being harvested adjacent the ground. An inclined conveyor grasps...
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4790334 |
Portable curing frame
A portable curing frame is provided particularly adapted for use with an automated tobacco harvester. The curing frame includes a substantially rectangular frame member including a series of...
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4773434 |
Tobacco leaf sorting system for picking and sorting leaves of tobacco plants
A sorting system according to the present invention comprises a leaf picking apparatus for picking off tobacco leaves from tobacco plants and dropping the leaves while the plants are being passed...
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4715170 |
Apparatus for selectively removing tobacco plant leaves
An apparatus for plucking tobacco leaves has a pair of supporting members. These members are positioned on either side of a row of tobacco plants and extend parallel to this row and can move along...
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4578935 |
Tobacco harvester and method
An apparatus and a method for harvesting tobacco are disclosed. Tobacco stalks are cut on the afternoon of one day and are left to lie transversely of the tobacco field. The next day, a harvesting...
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4530203 |
Leaf distribution means
A tobacco harvester discharge system is provided for uniformally distributing tobacco leaves into a tobacco bin. A set of rolls positioned over the discharge intercepts a substantial portion of the...
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4510740 |
Tobacco harvester
A tobacco harvester includes a self-propelled vehicle frame having driven front wheels and steerable rear wheels. A pair of harvester units are positioned side-by-side on the frame and each unit...
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4509536 |
Tobacco stripper
Two gears or cogwheels rotating in opposite directions and constructed so that the cogs of each fit most of the way, but not all of the way, in to the grooves or notches of the other, but not...
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4478227 |
Leaf stripping mechanism
A leaf stripper for tobacco stalks and the like wherein the leaves are removed from the stalks by the stalks being pulled or forced through a cooperating spring loaded scraper bars and a roughly...
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4476669 |
Tobacco combine with selective conveyor raising
A tobacco combine comprising a frame operable to be moved along a row of tobacco plants in a tobacco field, a pair of cooperating power driven mechanical tobacco defoliating units mounted on the...
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4470242 |
Two row crop harvester
A two row harvesting aid including an easily adjustable, semi-floating, self-steering primary cutter head and an auxiliary second row attachment for harvesting row crops. Self-steering...
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4458473 |
Tobacco harvester
A tobacco harvester includes a distributor placed between the discharge of the conveyor and the pallet. The distributor comprises of a horizontal corrigated disc rotatable about a vertical axis....
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4444001 |
Tobacco harvester
A tobacco harvesting apparatus including a mobile frame, having a cutting station comprising a rotary cutter blade, a rotary paddle assembly, and a receiver for a longitudinally and forward...
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4416294 |
Leaf stripper
A leaf stripping machine for tobacco and the like which consists of a framework with a large pinwheel rotatably mounted on a vertical plane at one end of the framework and a stripping implement...
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4407305 |
Tobacco leaf-stripping machine
A machine is shown for use in a tobacco stripping barn for stripping tobacco leaves from the stalk in three separate Grades. The machine has an elevated, elongated workbench or frame with three...
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4391084 |
Tobacco defoliating units with overlapping cutting edges
An apparatus for priming tobacco plants having stalks and leaves extending outwardly therefrom comprising a pair of intermeshing defoliating units each of which includes a plurality of elongated...
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4379669 |
Tobacco handling apparatus
Tobacco handling apparatus that receives tobacco from a source, such as a trailer, and elevates it by a conveyor to a discharge end from which it is discharged in a flow path having a substantial...
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4378669 |
Pull type automatic tobacco harvester and method of harvesting tobacco
The present invention relates to a pull type multi-pass automatic tobacco harvester adapted to be connected to a farm tractor and pulled through a tobacco field for harvesting tobacco within the...
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4373323 |
Tobacco leaf stripper
A tobacco stripper has a pair of counter-rotating gear belts which are used to separate tobacco leaves from tobacco stalks when the stalk is advanced into a nip formed by the counter-rotating belts.
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4367621 |
Crop harvester including a quickly adjustable semi-floating, self-steering cutter head
The present invention is directed to an easily adjustable, semi-floating, self-steering cutter head for row crops. The present invention incorporates self-steering capabilities, a cut-off mechanism...
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4361002 |
Stick holder and deposition device
The present invention is directed to a device for positioning a stick relative to a harvesting aid. The stick holder mounts a stick relative to an operator positioned on a harvesting aid. The stick...
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4354340 |
Mechanical pruning device
An apparatus for attachment to the PTO of a tractor or other tow vehicle. The apparatus includes a framework mounting a laterally extending tool bar, the height of which is determined by adjustment...
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4353200 |
Tobacco harvesting machine
A tobacco harvesting machine is shown for use in automatically impaling the stalks of standing tobacco plants onto a tobacco stick that is fixed on the machine in a horizontal position. The machine...
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4353377 |
Guide for leaf stripping apparatus
The problems of properly guiding tobacco leaves to the nip of leaf stripping rolls and limiting leaves from sticking to the rolls, are avoided by providing a member which includes a portion having...
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4307562 |
Tobacco stripper nip roll
A tobacco leaf stripping machine is provided having an improved tobacco stripping roller that has a radially contoured nose, a transition area and a base portion which primarily engages the tobacco...
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4303364 |
Method and apparatus for transferring harvested bulk foliage from one container to another
A method and apparatus for transferring a pile of foliage from one surface to a second surface comprising an unloading mechanism which will contain and suspend the pile of foliage to permit removal...
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4301645 |
Tobacco harvesting method and apparatus
Tobacco plants are harvested by having an operator ride a harvesting vehicle along a plant row so that as plants are successively cut from the ground by a cutter on the vehicle, the operator may...
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4292982 |
Leaf stripper for tobacco stalks and the like
A leaf stripper for tobacco stalks and the like including cooperating leaf stripping means, means for moving the stripping means to form a nip, and stalk supporting an infeeding means including a...
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