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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 1992
Filed:
Jan. 04, 1991
Sydney E Tilby, Victoria, B.C., CA;
Other;
Abstract
An improved half-billet control device in apparatus for separating sugarcane (or the like) into constituent parts and an improved method for half-billet control. The device has a rotatable gide roll in proximity to a planar slide and transverse to the direction of half-billet movement. The guide roll has annular flexible projections, preferably bristle rows, which are parallel to the direction of half-billet movement, perpendicular to the slide, and spaced apart by a distance substantially less than the average billet diameter. Half billets moving along the slide nestle between projections and are thereby reoriented as needed to align their longitudinal axes parallel to the direction of movement.