Cnh America LLC

J. I. Case Company

Case Corporation

Monroe C Barrett

Jesse H Orsborn

Kevin Scott Richman

Robert M Fachini

Scott W Tenbrink

G Neil Thedford

Maxwell D McClure, Iii

The cotton harvester includes a cotton picker housing having at least one plant lifter defining a plant row channel extending back into the housing to a plant compressor sheet. A picker rotor is mounted in the cotton picker housing adjacent to the plant row channel and traverse to the plant compressor sheet. A doffer in the housing near the picker rotor removes picked cotton from the picker rotor and moves the picked cotton to an outlet at the rear of the cotton picker housing. A power unit includes an internal combustion engine mounted on the housing including a rotatable output selectably connectable in rotatably driving relation to the picker rotor and the doffer for imparting rotation thereto. The power unit can also selectably drive at least one wheel of the harvester for moving it over the ground at a speed corresponding to a rotational speed of the picker rotor.

Walk-behind cotton harvester

A row unit movable in a forward direction for simultaneously picking cotton from at least two parallel rows of cotton plants, the rows of cotton plants being spaced a predetermined distance apart in a transverse direction relative to the forward direction. The row unit includes a structure or unitary housing having a forward end and an opposite rearward end and containing or defining at least two plant row channels therethrough at locations spaced apart in the transverse direction by an amount about equal to the predetermined distance for simultaneous passage of the at least two rows of cotton plants through the row channels, respectively and at least two picker rotors located within the unitary housing adjacent to the plant row channels therethrough, respectively, each of the picker rotors being mounted for rotation about a generally upright axis and including members which extend into the adjacent plant row channel for picking cotton from the cotton plants passing therethrough as the picker rotor is rotated. A plurality of the row units can be provided on a cotton harvester, mounted forwardly and/or rearwardly thereof.

Cotton harvester row unit

A self-propelled cotton harvester having a cotton receiving and unloading basket mounted for vertical movement between cotton-receiving and cotton-unloading positions in a level attitude wherein the basket comprises a chain conveyor for cotton unloading regardless of angle and moving load on the door in all basket height positions.

Cotton harvester

A cotton harvester basket for accumulating picked cotton comprises four walls, a floor with a conveyor and a detachable roof section. The basket is vertically moveable between its raised and lowered positions by hydraulic cylinders disposed at the opposite ends of the basket. The same cylinders can be used for telescopically bringing the roof section into and out of the space encompassed by the basket walls.

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Geneseo, IL, United States of America

Monroe C Barrett