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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2013
Applicant:
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Inventor:
Douglas Craig Swinyard, Rotorua, NZ;
Assignee:
WARATAH NZ LIMITED, Tokoroa, NZ;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01G 23/095 (2006.01); A01G 23/083 (2006.01); B27L 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01G 23/095 (2013.01); A01G 23/083 (2013.01); B27L 1/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A timber-working head is configured to hold a felled tree and to feed the felled tree. The timber-working head comprises a frame and a delimb knife module mounted to the frame and configured to delimb the felled tree when the felled tree is fed past the delimb knife module. The delimb knife module has a central blade, a pivotable first side blade, and a pivotable second side blade.