Patents by Inventor BRIAN J. FIELDS

BRIAN J. FIELDS has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • SUGARCANE HARVESTER EXTRACTOR WITH LEAF SHREDDER
    Publication number: 20220346317
    Abstract: An extractor for a sugarcane harvester that chops stalks of sugarcane into billets. The extractor comprises a fan, a leaf shredder, and a hub. The fan comprises fan blades to induce a flow of air to separate leaves from billets. The leaf shredder comprises shredding blades to cut leaves prior to their ejection from the extractor. The hub is rotatably driven about an axis of rotation. The fan blades and the cutting blades are coupled to the hub for rotation together with the hub about the axis of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: MATTHEW J. HANSEN, ERIC P. RICHARD, DUSK S. MIXON, TODD J. RODRIGUE, GUY E. BURCH, BRIAN J. FIELDS