Steiner Turf Equipment, Inc.

Emanuel A Hendriks

Wilhelmus J Hendriks

Mathias M Hendriks

Johannes G Hendriks

David Sean Johnsen

Gerald L Douglas

Frank R Pohlman, Jr

Thomas E Noyes, Ii

A numerically-controlled robotic manipulator arm mounted to a sod harvester comprises two segments pivotally coupled together. One segment is rotatably coupled to a fixed base on the harvester while the second segment carries a pick-up head which can turn with respect to the segment. The pick-up head is capable of picking up, holding, and releasing sod rolls. The arm is programmable so that a variety of configurations of stacked sod rolls can be achieved.

Robotic sod stacker

A sod roller for automatically controlling the angular position of the end or flap of a roll of sod about the roll. A device senses the end, or trailing edge, of a strip of sod as a roll is formed on a roll-up conveyor. The sod roller holds the roll in the roll-up conveyor as it continues to roll and ejects the roll from the roll-up conveyor in a manner responsive to the position of the trailing edge of the strip of sod.

Automatic control of sod roll flaps

Growing community of inventors

Heythuysen, Netherlands

Emanuel A Hendriks