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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 1986
Filed:
Aug. 15, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ferol S Fell, Newton, KS (US);
Howard J Ratzlaff, Hesston, KS (US);
Assignee:
Hesston Corporation, Hesston, KS (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
56 134 ; 2411017 ; 241222 ; 563202 ;
Abstract
A high speed rotor in the chute of a forage harvester is used to crack kernels in chopped forage impelled to the rotor. The rotor itself has four or more rows of elongated, spaced-apart plates provided with blunt cracking edges, and a deflector, disposed upstream of the rotor, is adjustable for a wide range of positions and diverts the flow of material to allow control over the degree of cracking.