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Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2022

Filed:

Feb. 17, 2021
Applicant:

Firefly Automatix, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Inventors:

Steven R. Aposhian, Farmington, UT (US);

Eric E. Aston, Farmington, UT (US);

William M. Decker, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Mark C. LeBlanc, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Daniel A. Aposhian, West Valley City, UT (US);

Assignee:

FireFly Automatix, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01G 20/15 (2018.01); B65G 61/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01G 20/15 (2018.02); B65G 61/00 (2013.01); B65G 2203/0225 (2013.01); B65G 2203/0258 (2013.01);
Abstract

A sod harvester's stacking position can be dynamically adjusted to form vertically aligned stacks. More particularly, a sod harvester's control system can be configured to automatically adjust the stacking position as a stack is being formed based on a sensed orientation of the pallet. In this way, the control system can ensure that a slab of sod that is dropped from the stacking head will fall into the intended location on the stack regardless of the orientation of the pallet relative to the stacking head.


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