Excavator Or Separator Within Confines Of Endless Impeller Or Breakers Patents (Class 171/119)
  • Separator conveyor for peanut combine
    Patent number: 4227538
    Abstract: A peanut combine has a plurality of relatively large threshing cylinders arranged in series with a breastplate underneath having openings of a size to permit peanuts and some extraneous matter to fall therethrough, the vines being carried upwardly by the cylinders, and a conveyor beneath the forward threshing cylinder having openings of a size to permit the passage of some extraneous matter but of a size to retain the peanuts thereon for discharge into a shaker pan beneath an upper threshing cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1980
    Assignee: Long Manufacturing N.C., Inc.
    Inventors: William R. Long, James H. Long