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Sickle blade heater

US3988106A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMay 1, 1975
Grant dateOct 26, 1976
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Expiry dateMay 1, 1995

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02P10/25
  • WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

An apparatus for the edge heating of sickle blades having a pair of magazines for retaining a vertical stack of blades therein, a pair of heat-treating stations located inwardly of the magazines and a discharge chute between the stations. A guide and rod assembly is reciprocated by an eccentric between two positions for feeding a blade from a magazine to a heat-treating station and removing the treated blade from the heat-treating station to discharge the blade into a discharge chute.

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