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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2022
Applicant:
1045929 Ontario Limited, Keswick, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
1045929 Ontario Limited, Keswick, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01G 20/15 (2018.01); B65G 57/03 (2006.01); B65G 57/24 (2006.01); B65G 65/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01G 20/15 (2018.02); B65G 57/03 (2013.01); B65G 57/24 (2013.01); B65G 65/34 (2013.01); B65G 2201/0267 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of operating a stacking head of a sod harvester includes: (a) repeatedly transferring sod slabs from a transfer station located along a conveyor assembly of the sod harvester to a pallet station of the sod harvester to form a loaded pallet at the pallet station; (b) during replacement of the loaded pallet with an empty pallet, forming a stack of slabs at the transfer station; and (c) transferring the stack of slabs from the transfer station to the pallet station for deposit on the empty pallet when received at the pallet station, and repeating (a) to (c) in a continuous sod harvesting process.