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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 1976
Filed:
Feb. 18, 1975
John Dale Anderson, Canton, KS (US);
Bruce Leo Lutz, Hesston, KS (US);
Harold Keith Garrison, Newton, KS (US);
Hesston Corporation, Hesston, KS (US);
Abstract
The discharge spout of the pickup in a stack-forming machine is provided with baffle structure inside the spout and adjacent the discharge opening that oscillates horizontally and continuously through a stream of crops being projected into the forming body of the machine in order to break up wads and clumps of matter in the stream and to evenly distribute the stream from side-to-side within the body. One embodiment utilizes a single, centrally disposed fin as the baffle structure, while another employs a pair of such fins angled acutely with respect to one another, centered in the spout and controlled to preclude swinging of each fin inwardly beyond a position parallel to the direction of crop flow.