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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2005
Applicant:
Kenneth R. Underhill, Strasburg, PA (US);
Inventor:
Kenneth R. Underhill, Strasburg, PA (US);
Assignee:
CNH America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01D 76/00 (2006.01); A01D 78/00 (2006.01); A01D 80/00 (2006.01); A01D 84/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The apparatus is a farm machine that inverts crop windrows using only the raking tines of a conventional rotary rake machine. The tines engage and move an existing windrow, and invert the windrow as the crop is being disengaged from the tines. The inverting machine accomplishes the inverting by imparting motion to the discharging crop that has a vector of motion that is in the same direction as the movement of the inverter machine. This causes the crop to move faster than the machine itself and inverts the windrow by pushing the disengaging crop over the crop that was previously discharged.