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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2010
Craig E. Murray, Rock Island, IL (US);
Orlin W. Johnson, Geneseo, IL (US);
John D. Watt, Davenport, IA (US);
Jay D. Schroeder, Coal Valley, IL (US);
Bryan B. Finley, Bettendorf, IA (US);
Craig E. Murray, Rock Island, IL (US);
Orlin W. Johnson, Geneseo, IL (US);
John D. Watt, Davenport, IA (US);
Jay D. Schroeder, Coal Valley, IL (US);
Bryan B. Finley, Bettendorf, IA (US);
CNH America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);
Abstract
A spreader disk assembly for spreading crop residue such as straw discharged from an agricultural harvesting machine, and more particularly, which has a bat support mechanism that enables the bats to be quickly and easily hingedly or pivotally convertible from a deployed spreading mode to a flattened stowed mode for windrowing, which does not require removal of the bats, or the disk from the spreader. A locking mechanism is provided that enables the quick and easy conversion and securely holds the bats in both modes.