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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 1988
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1986
Michael J Hanley, Chicago, IL (US);
Gary L Wells, Downers Grove, IL (US);
Robert M Fachini, Naperville, IL (US);
J. I. Case Company, Racine, WI (US);
Abstract
In a self-propelled cotton harvester, a microprocessor circuit associated with the cotton compactor for automatically controlling the operating cycles of the compactor. A digital counter-type transducer is associated with the transmission gear or drive wheel and counts the number of revolutions of that member. Once the operator has entered in the microprocessor memory the starting time of the compactor operation in relation to the number of revolutions of the drive gear or wheel, each cotton picking cycle thereafter proceeds automatically without intervention by the operator, so that operation of the compactor begins at substantially the same point in each cotton load.