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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2005
Michael J. Covington, Bettendorf, IA (US);
George H. Hale, Arlington, TN (US);
Gary R. Gallens, Geneseo, IL (US);
Michael J. Covington, Bettendorf, IA (US);
George H. Hale, Arlington, TN (US);
Gary R. Gallens, Geneseo, IL (US);
CNH America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);
Abstract
A cotton packager for mounting on a chassis of a cotton harvester interchangeably with a cotton basket, allowing for pivotal movement of the packager between an operating position and a tilted unloading position. The packager includes a pivotable fluid cylinder which attaches to the chassis in place of a fixed front lift cylinder of the basket, and a rear pivot which attaches to the chassis in place of a rear lift cylinder. As a result, a rear open end of the packager can be lowered closer to a surface onto which cotton is to be unloaded, and drivers for an unloader door of the packager can be subjected to less damaging loads.