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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2018
Firefly Automatix, Inc., North Salt Lake, UT (US);
Steven R. Aposhian, Farmington, UT (US);
Eric E. Aston, Farmington, UT (US);
William M. Decker, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Samuel H. Drake, Cottonwood Heights, UT (US);
Daniel A. Aposhian, West Valley City, UT (US);
Matthew G. Aposhian, Kaysville, UT (US);
FireFly Automatix, Inc., North Salt Lake, UT (US);
Abstract
A sod harvester can include an auxiliary stacking conveyor for stacking or folding slabs of sod on a conveyor prior to the stacked/folded slabs being removed from a stacking conveyor by a stacking head. The auxiliary stacking conveyor can be configured to receive a leading slab of sod and then stack the leading slab on top of a trailing slab while the trailing slab is being advanced along a conveyor. The auxiliary stacking conveyor can also be configured to partially receive a slab of sod and then reverse direction to cause the slab to be folded backwards on top of itself while being advanced along a conveyor. Different configurations can be employed to cause slabs to be selectively positioned on an auxiliary stacking conveyor.