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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2011
Ronnie Charles Neidigh, Pueblo, CO (US);
Dwight Allen Blickensderfer, Pueblo, CO (US);
Denis Ralph Beland, Owatonna, MN (US);
Ronnie Charles Neidigh, Pueblo, CO (US);
Dwight Allen Blickensderfer, Pueblo, CO (US);
Denis Ralph Beland, Owatonna, MN (US);
Magnuson Corporation, Pueblo, CO (US);
Abstract
An automatic corn cutting apparatus for cutting kernels off of husked ears of corn. The ears may be presented to the cutting knives either tip end or butt end first. The ears are fed into the cutting knives by a pair of drive rollers carried by a pair of articulating drive shafts. The drive shafts move in a plane perpendicular to the axis along which the ears are fed to the cutting knives. A sensor, preferably a linear variable differential transformer, or LVDT, is carried by one of the drive shafts remotely from the ears, i.e. the LVDT does not contact the ears. The sensor detects the profile of each ear of corn, and the profile is used by a knife controller to efficiently remove the kernels from each ear of corn.