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Taylor Manufacturing, Inc.

George Ronald Taylor

Jimmy N Taylor

Oren M Taylor

Miller Taylor

The present invention relates to an improved tobacco harvester adaptable to various harvesting conditions without the necessity to manually remove and/or install defoliating blades or harvesting heads. The present invention has two harvesting heads including a stationary lower harvesting head with a pair of defoliating paddles to harvest the sand lugs. The second harvesting head is a &ldquo;tipping head&rdquo; with rotating steel blades or &ldquo;cutter bars&rdquo; which is selectively lowered into position over the defoliator to harvest the leaves from the middle and upper portion of the tobacco stalk. The elevation of the tipping head may be adjusted from the operator station while the harvester is in service.

Method and two head apparatus for harvesting tobacco

The tobacco harvester is adapted to be mounted adjacent the side of a tractor and includes an inclined chute with a chain conveyor operating in an aperture in the bottom of the chute extending the full length of the chute. The lower end of the inclined chute straddles the tobacco plant and a rotating cutter blade mounted at the lower end of the chute severs the stalk close to the ground. The cut tobacco plant travels top first up the conveyor and at the top end of the chute the top of the stalk passes through an aperture formed by orthogonally disposed stationary bars and into the nip between a pair of rotatable feed rollers, one of which is driven. The feed rollers draw the stalk through the stripper bars to strip the leaves from the stalk so that the stalk and the leaves will fall into separate containers.

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Elizabethtown, NC, United States of America

George Ronald Taylor