Abstract: A method of handling material which has been harvested comprising the steps of placing the material on a conveyor arranged at an oblique angle to a direction of motion of a trailer and a harvester moving at differential speeds and simultaneously reciprocating the conveyor along its length and driving the conveyor to advance the harvested material therealong from the harvester to the trailer.
Abstract: Apparatus for transferring harvested material from a harvester into a trailer moving alongside the harvester at a slightly faster rate, for which purpose a conveyor inclined at an oblique angle to the direction of motion of the vehicles is loaded with harvested material and a shuttling means reciprocates the conveyor and its drive means in the conveying direction while a drive interrupting means causes the conveyor to be driven only during one sense of the reciprocating drive of the shuttling means.