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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2013
Steven R. Aposhian, Farmington, UT (US);
Eric E. Aston, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
William M. Decker, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Samuel Drake, Cottonwood Heights, UT (US);
Steven R. Aposhian, Farmington, UT (US);
Eric E. Aston, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
William M. Decker, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Samuel Drake, Cottonwood Heights, UT (US);
FireFly Equipment, LLC, Farmington, UT (US);
Abstract
An articulated cutting head and conveyor mount for sod harvesting machines. The invention provides a linkage design that can provide many benefits including: allowing the operator to see the cutting operation, enabling the high lifting of the cutting head for service and maneuvering, managing the vertical bending load of the ground reference roller, providing high transverse stiffness, maintaining the position of the conveyor relative to the cutting head. The linkage design can include fewer parts than previous designs while still being robust and durable. As such, cutting heads employing the linkage design of the present invention can produce higher quality slabs with less service and maintenance than when using current designs.