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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2000
Jesse H. Orsborn, Port Byron, IL (US);
Kevin S. Richman, Muscatine, IA (US);
Monroe C. Barrett, Geneseo, IL (US);
G. Neil Thedford, Naperville, IL (US);
Case Corporation, Racine, WI (US);
Abstract
A row unit movable in a forward direction for simultaneously picking cotton from at least two parallel rows of cotton plants, the rows of cotton plants being spaced a predetermined distance apart in a transverse direction relative to the forward direction. The row unit includes a structure or unitary housing having a forward end and an opposite rearward end and containing or defining at least two plant row channels therethrough at locations spaced apart in the transverse direction by an amount about equal to the predetermined distance for simultaneous passage of the at least two rows of cotton plants through the row channels, respectively and at least two picker rotors located within the unitary housing adjacent to the plant row channels therethrough, respectively, each of the picker rotors being mounted for rotation about a generally upright axis and including members which extend into the adjacent plant row channel for picking cotton from the cotton plants passing therethrough as the picker rotor is rotated. A plurality of the row units can be provided on a cotton harvester, mounted forwardly and/or rearwardly thereof.