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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 1977
Filed:
Feb. 14, 1975
John Charles Green, Lillington, NC (US);
Ronald Edward Wheeler, Angier, NC (US);
Other;
Abstract
A combination bulk tobacco rack loader and unloader, and method of unloading a bulk tobacco rack is disclosed. The combination bulk tobacco rack loader and unloader comprises a generally open frame structure adapted in the unloading mode to receive filled bulk tobacco rack on its side with the plane of the tobacco leaves therein being generally horizontally disposed in overlying relationship, the bulk tobacco rack being of the type having first and second sections latched together and with tines fixed to at least one section and extending therefrom to penetrate and support the bulk volume of tobacco leaves peripherally contained therein. Once placed in the apparatus or device of the present invention, the same is adapted upon selective actuation to unlatch at least one latching mechanism associated with the bulk rack to allow one section of the rack to be pulled from the other section.