Case Corporation

Frank C Dupire

Michael J Covington

Jesse H Orsborn

George H Hale

Dwight D Lemke

Lyle P Mangen

Guy N Thedford

Jimmy Ray Hargett

Kenneth Brown Hood

Earl Richard Snyder

A moistener supply system for a cotton picking machine including a cleaner injection system that supplies cleaner to the system from a location remote from a water tank or other source of water. The outlet of the cleaner injection system preferably is positioned at a location that assures good mixing of the cleaner with the water before the resultant moistener is dispensed onto the moistening pads. Cleaner flow rate preferably is slaved to the water flow rate in order to maintain a generally constant cleaner concentration in the moistener in the absent external intervention. The cleaner flow rate can also be adjusted independently of the water flow rate to vary the cleaner concentration to meet the needs of the prevailing operating conditions. The cleaner concentration adjustment may be effected manually, automatically, or a combination of both.

Cotton picker moistener supply system

An easily removable support for a moistener stand or column of a harvesting unit of a cotton harvester, which tilts the stand or column when rotated from an operative position to a service position, to raise a plurality of moistening pads of the stand or column relative to picker spindles of the harvesting unit. The moistener stand or column is then merely lifted to disconnect the support for removal, and when reinstalled and/or rotated back to the operative position, previous fore, aft and height adjustments of the moistening pads are retained.

Easily removable moistener stand support for a cotton harvester drum

Method for building a cotton module on a mobile cotton harvester

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Sherrard, IL, United States of America

Frank C Dupire