Abstract: Systems and methods for replacing a removable assembly from a harvester for collecting and separating harvested crop product from twigs, dirt, dust, and other debris. A removable assembly for picking up harvested crop product and a removable assembly for separating the picked up harvested crop product from twigs, dirt, dust, and other debris are mounted to be changed out quickly in the field. A removable pickup assembly is received for removably mounting in the harvester by an inclined slot formed in a sidewall of the harvester body frame, so that the removable pickup assembly with the worn belt is lifted up and out and a replacement removable pickup assembly with a new belt is dropped into its place.

Abstract: A harvester and processor for peanuts that comprises a drag type machine to be towed and actuated by a conventional tractor, which has various double assemblies to harvest lined up peanuts and process them through various steps of cleaning, up to the separation of the cleaned grains that are stored in an embedded tipper bucket, and to perform all this, the machine contains a chassis (1), that on its bottom side is supported by wheels (3), while on its top side is integrated with a plate body (4) forming a mono block structure for the assembling of all the embedded assemblies, starting with the frontal hitch pole (5) integrated with the transmission assembly (6) which is responsible for the actuation of various parts of the machine, specially two harvesting conveyor belts (8), anti-jamming receptive boxes (9), threshing cylinders (10), and in these cylinders starts the cleaning process together with the vibrating sieves (11) and the ventilation assembly (12), being that the cleaned fruits are delivered to a re

Abstract: A mechanical harvester for harvesting produce with a core planted in a field is provided. The mechanical harvester includes a chassis, a positioning apparatus, a decoring device, and a transport assembly. The positioning apparatus is connected to the chassis and configured to position the produce in the ground for harvesting and decoring. The decoring device is connected to the positioning apparatus and configured to sever the core of the produce while the produce is in the ground. The transport assembly is connected to the chassis and configured to lift the cut produce from the ground and transport the cut produce to a processing unit or a storage container.

Abstract: The present disclosure involves systems, products, and methods for excluding inconsistent objects from lifecycle management processing. One method includes operations for identifying a set of objects in a system, at least a subset of the set of objects associated with a lifecycle management process; prior to performing the lifecycle management process, determining a consistency status for each object in the subset of objects associated with the lifecycle management process; and performing the lifecycle management process, wherein performing the lifecycle management process includes executing at least one lifecycle management operation on each object in the set of objects determined to be consistent within the system prior to performing the lifecycle management process. In some instances, performing the lifecycle management process may include skipping the execution of the at least one lifecycle management operation for each inconsistent object during the lifecycle management process.

Abstract: Systems and methods for covering a trough member. A cover system can include a flexible cover coupled to a side wall of the trough member. The flexible cover is selectively removable from the side wall to allow access to an interior of the trough member. The flexible cover mounts with a snap arrangement. Support ribs are mounted to side walls of the trough member.

Abstract: This device is a vehicle for scraping earth from regions containing land mines or munitions. The scraped earth is separated into munitions and earth, the earth is allowed to exit the vehicle's scraper bowl. The munitions and land mines are retained in the scraper bowl. The device is additionally armored in those regions where explosion of the cargo carrying, e.g., land mines, is found. Additionally, the device may be robotically operated.

Abstract: A multi-row peanut harvester having linkage for independent vertical movement of digger/shaker/inverter assemblies for digging peanut vines from the ground in a field, shaking dirt from the peanut vine roots, and inverting the peanut vines for exposing the peanuts to air. Each linkage comprises two A-frame structures joined at apexes a connecting member. The A-frames connect to a tool bar which attaches to a tractor and to a connector bar which attaches to the DSI assembly. The DSI move vertically independently in response to the DSI's wheels travelling on the ground, independently of the adjacent DSI.

Abstract: An apparatus for retrieving golf balls comprises a structure which may be dragged behind or pushed by a tractor. The structure comprises a plurality of golf ball containers which are individually and flexibly connected to the dragging structure. Rearwardly converging guide means are also flexibly connected to the dragging structure for guiding golf balls into front openings in each of the ball containers. In front of each ball container opening is a lift gate comprising a plurality of fixed strands and a lowermost pivotable strand for dislodging partially buried golf balls. A paddle structure rotates in conjunction with the lift gate to assist golf balls upwardly into the container and the paddle structure is connected to ground engaging wheels which rotate as the apparatus is dragged in operation.

Abstract: Mine clearing apparatus for attachment to a vehicle and comprising a frame mountable onto a vehicle for selectable positioning in a raised or lowered orientation; apparatus mounted onto the frame for raising and shunting aside mines including a plow section, the plow section defining a plurality of plow teeth which, in operation, extend below the ground surface, and conveyer apparatus extending along the length of the plow section and adapted to convey the contents of the earth raised by the plow section to one side of the vehicle.

Abstract: A root picker includes a main frame supporting within it a triangular picker frame pivoted on the main frame at one apex with a lower and rearwardly positioned apex supporting a picker roller which is rotated to pick stones from the ground. A conveyor chain supporting transverse bars with outwardly extending teeth is pivotally mounted adjacent the third apex of the frame upwardly and rearwardly of the picker roller so that the chain turns around an axis at a position alongside the picker roller to lift rocks between the conveyor chain and the picker roller onto a surface which leads up to a bucket. The frame pivots to lift the conveyor chain and the picker roller away from the ground and also the conveyor chain is pivotal relative to the frame to increase the spacing between the chain and the picker roller. Rotating sweep drums are positioned forwardly and outwardly of the frame to pick and sweep rocks into the picker roller.

Abstract: A machine advances along a windrow of hay, or other field crop, which is dry on top but still damp on the bottom. The windrow is engaged, elevated and urged rearwardly in a continuous stream. A diagonal deflector adjacent the after end of the machine intercepts the flow of the windrow and inverts it before returning the inverted windrow to the ground. Twin spaced rows of disappearing backwardly raked tines travel across the face of the deflector in the path of the windrow to assure inversion; and guide rods at the trailing end of the deflector smoothly direct the windrow as it gravitates to the ground. The damp side of the windrow is thereby exposed to the drying effects of sun and wind.

Abstract: An apparatus adapted to dig four rows of growing peanut-laden plants and dispose them in turned position as two windrows, the apparatus having two sets of plows with the forward push of the leading end of the plows being away from the center of the front of the apparatus, and two elevating conveyors, one behind each set of plows, for removing as ribbons of peanut plants the four rows of plants, two ribbons of plants being elevated by each conveyor and dropped from the height of the conveyor to an inverting means to place the rows of plants from each conveyor in a windrow on the ground in a turned position.

Abstract: The inverter section of a peanut digger-shaker-inverter comprises two downwardly and inwardly inclined squirrel cage reels and associated inverting tine sets. Each reel includes spaced discs having undulating peripheries and adjacent pairs of the tines have portions straddling a disc and curving similarly thereto opposite the valleys of the undulations so that peanut plants are bumped and agitated, and thereby cleaned, while being fed along and supported by these portions of the tines.

Abstract: The inverter section of the present peanut digger-shaker-inverter may be used under all types of field conditions and comprises two downwardly and inwardly inclined drums, each drum being associated with a set of inverting tines. Each drum includes a plurality of equally spaced discs each holding a plurality of curved finger rods with adjacent pairs of the inverting tines having portions straddling a disc and curving similarly thereto beneath the outer extremities of the curved finger rods so that peanut plants are subject to a positive force in moving along and through the set of inverting tines with the plants being bumped and agitated by the gentle prodding of the ends of the rods and thereby affording an additional cleaning or reshaking action which lets the loosened soil fall freely through the drums and not on the inverted peanut vines which have been deposited on the ground and also assuring proper drying conditions and minimum field losses of the peanuts.

Abstract: A multirow sugar-beet harvester has a chassis displaceable along the ground above several rows of sugar beets and is provided with a plurality of pairs of extractor plows which dig up the sugar beets in several rows simultaneously. A grillwork wheel is provided tangent to one of the plows of each pair and is rotated to pick up sugar beets from the plows and displace them backwardly into the transversely extending and elongated inlet mouth of the horizontal stretch of a conveyor. A vertical stretch of this conveyor then transports the sugar beets upwardly and drops them into a bin on the chassis.

Abstract: Immediately rearwardly of the peanut combine pickup head, a plowshare supported by gage wheels delivers fallen loose peanuts to an inclined conveyor having rearwardly moving paddle bars which sweep the loose peanuts rearwardly and upwardly over a rod grate through which small debris is sifted. At the rear of the conveyor and grate, the loose peanuts are delivered into a cross auger having a trough formed by additional grate bars and from this auger trough the loose peanuts and remaining lightweight debris are blown pneumatically into the combine for final cleaning and separation. Heavier debris in the auger trough is forced through a spring loaded trap door at one end of the trough by the action of the auger.

Abstract: Harvesting machine for ground vegetables, such as turnips. In such machine, there is provided an unearthing component including a pair of share halves which cooperate to comprise an unearthing share. A driven conveyor element is positioned directly above said unearthing share for moving unearthed vegetables onto other means such as a grating. The conveyor means comprise a generally disk-shaped base having a plurality of arms extending generally radially therefrom. Said arms are mounted in cylindrical housings fixed with respect to said disk and on one side thereof. Each of said arms extends first radially from said housing, then generally axially of said disk to a point adjacent the other side thereof, then again radially and angled in the normal direction of travel of said harvesting machine and terminating with a reverse bend.

Abstract: A mobile device for harvesting tree seedlings includes means for subsurface cutting to separate and loosen from the surrounding ground the body of earth adjoining the roots of the tree seedlings. The movement and relative position of the earth separating means enables it to efficiently sever the roots of the tree seedlings from the surrounding ground while allowing only a minimum amount of earth of adhere to the roots of the seedlings as they are removed. A plurality of paired gripper belts remove the loosened seedlings by lifting them upwardly and rearwardly relative to the ground, each pair of gripper belts having male-female intercoupled gripping surfaces which minimize damage to the stems of the seedlings. Disposed below the gripper belts are a plurality of elongated root beater means adapted to move in a transverse oscillatory manner to agitate the roots and remove the earth adhering thereto without damaging the seedlings.

Abstract: A digger-shaker adapted to dig two rows of growing peanut laden plants and shake soil therefrom is provided with two carrier belts disposed at the rear thereof and spaced transversely from each other adapted to intercept the peanut plants as they are discharged by the digger-shaker, support them nearer the root portions than the tops of the foliage, move them rearwardly from the digger-shaker while thus supported whereby the foliage of the plants falls inwardly between the spaced carriers until not above horizontal, and then discharge the plants to the ground with the peanuts spaced away from the ground. The digger-shaker is also provided with an improved conveyor for elevating the peanut laden plants in which a front idler wheel is not journaled on the frame with an outwardly projecting bearing and additional idler wheels direct the conveyor along an irregular path to improve its soil removing properties.

Abstract: Peanut digging apparatus having a quick-attach side delivery conveyor for the peanut crop. With said conveyor detached, crop can be deposited directly behind the apparatus. With said conveyor attached crop can be deposited at a laterally offset position. Using these two modes of operation successively, large windrows of crop can be built up in stages while allowing time between said stages for natural drying of the crop.