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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2014
Applicant:
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Inventor:
Joel M. Schreiner, Ankeny, IA (US);
Assignee:
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01D 46/16 (2006.01); A01D 46/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01D 46/16 (2013.01); A01D 46/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
A scrapping plate arrangement within a cotton picking machine includes a pivotable pressure plate and one or more pivotable scrapping plates. Each scrapping plate may be an assembly that includes a door and a plate member having one or more ribs extending toward a picking drum and configured to pass through respective openings in the pressure plate, permitting each scrapping plate to be positioned selectively into a use orientation.