Steiner Turf Equipment, Inc.

Brouwer Turf, Inc.

Thomas E Noyes, Ii

Roelof H Devries

Mathias M Hendriks

Wilhelmus J Hendriks

Emanuel A Hendriks

Johannes G Hendriks

Glenn D Gerber

Johannes Gerardus Marie Hendriks

Emanuel Alphonus Antonius Hendriks

Wilhelmus Joseph Petrus Hendriks

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

A sod harvester includes a cutter for forming a strip of cut sod, and an inclined conveyor for conveying the strip from the cutter to a roll-forming enclosure. The roll-forming enclosure comprises two belt conveyors at right angles to one another. The strip is delivered onto a generally horizontal one of the two conveyors, by which it is moved towards the second conveyor. The second conveyor then causes the leading end portion of the strip to turn back on itself and form the roll. A pair of spring-biassed fingers ensure proper roll formation. The strip of sod is cut transversely at an appropriate point and the sod within the enclosure is rolled up to complete the roll. The enclosure is turnable about a vertical axis to a laterally directed position, in which the roll can be discharged laterally clear of the next pass of the harvester. The roll can be wrapped in netting which is automatically cut as the roll-forming enclosure turns. The enclosure can be arrested in an intermediate position for release of a core tube into the enclosure, so that the roll is formed around the tube.

Sod harvester with pivotable roll-forming unit

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Creston, OH, United States of America

Thomas E Noyes, Ii