Billet planter
US4530293A · kind A · utility
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 11, 1982 |
| Grant date | Jul 23, 1985 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 11, 2002 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S111/925
- WIPO fieldOther special machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A sugar cane billet planter has a main bin and a sorter bin adjacent the main bin. Billets are moved by a main bin elevator from the main bin to the sorter bin and, thence, by a sorter bin elevator from the sorter bin to a billet chute. The elevator used to convey billets from the sorter bin to the billet chute uses a chain with conveyor fingers, each finger carrying an individual billet in an end-to-end relationship with adjacent billets. Sorter fingers project perpendicularly from the chain, align the billets within the sorter bin and allow them to be carried by the conveyor fingers. The chains and conveyor fingers are operable within a recess of a width slightly greater than the width of the chain and conveyor fingers.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.