Deere + Company

Dennis P Chadwick

Clarence R Trott

Gerardus A Veldhoven

A manure spreader having an upwardly opening box-like structure with a beater mechanism at its open rear end through which material may be reduced and thrown from that end. The conveying mechanism provided in the box-like structure for moving materials to the rear beater mechanism is composed of a fore-and-aft shiftable floor extension that is supported on a fixed floor of the box-like structure. The floor extension carries a transverse vertical push-off wall supported to shift fore-and-aft on the extension. In a fully extended position, the floor extension is at the front end of the spreader box and the push-off wall is on the front end of the extension. Manure or material in the box is pushed into the beater mechanism through hydraulic power which first shifts the floor extension rearwardly and in overlying rear position with respect to the fixed floor so that the rear edge of the floor extension is closely adjacent the beater mechanism. After the floor extension moves to its rear position, the hydraulic power then operates to move the push-off to a rear position so as to move the remaining material into the beater mechanism.

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Hannon, Canada

Dennis P Chadwick