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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2002
Filed:
May. 02, 2001
Michael J. Horejsi, Sherrard, IL (US);
Travis A. Schaeffer, Davenport, IA (US);
Case Corporation, Racine, WI (US);
Abstract
Apparatus for lifting a cotton receiving basket of a cotton harvester above a frame thereof including a plurality of upstanding fluid lift cylinders disposed at spaced locations around the basket, each of the lift cylinders has a cylinder body including an outer surface having a vertical extent at least equal to a maximum height that the basket is to be lifted above the frame, each of the cylinder bodies being fixedly mounted to the frame and the cylinders having extendable rods attached to the basket such that when the rods are moved telescopically upwardly the basket is lifted relative to the frame; and at least one lateral support bracket fixedly mounted to the basket and engaged with the outer surface of one of the cylinder bodies for moving therealong in engagement therewith when the basket is lifted for preventing lateral movement of the basket relative to the one of the cylinder bodies.