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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2007
Applicants:
Douglas Craig Swinyard, Rotorua, NZ;
Justyn Peter Smythe, Cambridge, NZ;
Inventors:
Douglas Craig Swinyard, Rotorua, NZ;
Justyn Peter Smythe, Cambridge, NZ;
Assignee:
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01G 23/095 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A tree harvester head comprises a drive wheel, a delimb knife, a pin, a wheel-mounting inner sleeve to which the drive wheel is mounted, and a knife-mounting outer sleeve to which the delimb knife is mounted. The wheel-mounting inner sleeve surrounds the pin for rotation of the wheel-mounting inner sleeve and the drive wheel mounted thereto about the pin. The knife-mounting outer sleeve surrounds the wheel-mounting inner sleeve for relative rotation therebetween for rotation of the delimb knife about the pin.