Abstract: A header for an agricultural vehicle including a frame and at least one row unit supported by the frame. The at least one row unit including has at least one deck assembly. The at least one deck assembly has a plurality of plates defining an outer periphery for contacting a crop material. Adjacent ones of the plurality of plates at least partially overlap and are movable with respect to one another.

Abstract: A material transfer system for a machine having a conveyor adapted to transfer material into a material holding space of a receptacle. The material transfer system also includes an adjustable deflector positioned proximate to a discharge end of the conveyor. The material transfer system further includes a sensor positioned proximate to the discharge end of the conveyor. The sensor is configured to monitor the material holding space of the receptacle. The material transfer system includes a controller communicably coupled with the adjustable deflector and the sensor. The controller is configured to receive a first input signal from at least one of the sensor and a machine operator for adjusting a position of the adjustable deflector, determine an optimal position of the adjustable deflector based on receipt of the first input signal, and generate a first command signal for adjusting the position of the adjustable deflector to the optimal position.

Abstract: A dual-stage rapid sheet stacking system is provided. In one embodiment, the dual-stage rapid stacker comprises a landing platform and a first actuator configured to control a vertical position of the landing platform. A vertical position sensor is configured to monitor the vertical position of the landing platform. A CPU is configured to receive a signal from the vertical position sensor and, in response to the received signal, to send a corresponding command to the first actuator such that the first actuator maintains a minimum sheet drop distance. A sliding catch tray unit, is mounted on a plurality of suspension rails. The dual-stage rapid sheet stacking system comprises a second actuator configured to receive commands from the CPU to control a horizontal position of the sliding catch tray unit. The dual-stage rapid sheet stacking system is configured to stack a plurality of sheets on the landing platform and then discharge, a plurality of sheets through the sliding catch tray unit.

Abstract: A stacking apparatus includes a first rotating table that is equipped with a plurality of stacking regions and intermittently rotates the plurality of stacking regions respectively to a plurality of work positions, a first turning unit; and a second turning unit. The first turning unit includes a first arm that turns between the first stacking position and a first pickup position where an anode sheet is picked up and a second arm that turns in concert with movement of the first arm between the first stacking position and a second pickup position where a separator is picked up. The second turning unit includes a third arm that picks up a cathode sheet and a fourth arm that turns in concert with movement of the third arm and picks up a separator.

Abstract: An agricultural machine includes: a base member; a residue assembly; a support member assembly being pivotally coupled with the base member and being connected to the residue assembly, the support member assembly supporting the residue assembly and being configured for moving the residue assembly relative to the base member between a residue assembly operating position and a residue assembly service position about a pivot axis substantially without raising an elevation of the residue assembly when the residue assembly is in the residue assembly service position.

Abstract: The invention relates to an ejector unit, in particular for a road milling machine, having an ejector that is replaceably mounted on a carrier. In one aspect the ejector is curved in a scoop-like fashion. In another aspect the ejector is reversible upon the carrier to allow the ejector to be reversed after one wear surface is worn, thus presenting a new second wear surface.

Abstract: A belt conveyor system is provided. Belt conveyor system comprises a belt conveyor comprising a first end and a second end. Belt conveyor system also comprises a first hopper located at the first end for loading bulk material onto the belt conveyor. Belt conveyor system also comprises a dispersion assembly on the second end, the dispersion assembly projects and radially disperses the bulk material onto a pile. Also provided is a belt conveyor apparatus for projecting bulk material onto a pile having a smooth profile. The belt conveyor apparatus comprises a dispersion assembly located at an unload end of a conveyor, the dispersion assembly comprises a dispersion roller and a structure for positioning the dispersion roller relative to the conveyor.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for manufacturing a molded product that includes a resin coating step of coating molten resin onto a forming mold having a minute uneven portion on the surface thereof, a compressing step of pressing the molten resin using the forming mold to thereby arrange the shape of the molded product, and a solidifying step of cooling and solidifying the molten resin. The resin coating step supplies the molten resin to a resin coating device including a discharge port and, while moving the resin coating device, discharges the molten resin onto the minute uneven portion of the heated forming mold from above to fill the molten resin into the minute uneven portion substantially in the same shape and thickness as those of a final shape of the molded product.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a belt-driven chute rotation system for a snowthrower having a chute and an engine. The chute rotation system includes a chute rotation mechanism rotating the chute around a first axis of rotation. The chute rotation system includes an actuation mechanism having a belt and at least one pulley. The belt moves substantially continuously when the engine is running. The at least one pulley moves from a first position adjacent to the belt to a second position engaging the belt. The at least one pulley is coupled to the chute rotation mechanism.

Abstract: A charging device for bulk material comprises a rotor having a substantially vertical axis of rotation a first drive for rotating the rotor and a chute supported by the rotor so as to be rotated with the latter. The chute can be rotated about its longitudinal axis. Its concavely curved sliding surface has a width that is diminishing from the top end to the bottom end of the chute, so that it is possible to vary the location where bulk material sliding down the chute channel leaves the latter by rotating the chute about its longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A baler for making parallelepiped bales is equipped with a bale ejector or thrower structure including a bale throwing pan supported by a four-bar linkage that is swung upwardly by a hydraulic throwing cylinder. A control valve structure including a solenoid-operated trip valve and a solenoid-operated pressure-relief valve is actuated for effecting pressurization of the throwing cylinder and throwing of a bale in response to a trip switch being closed in response to a trip pedal being rotated by a bale moving rearwardly on the throwing pan as it exits the baler bale chamber, the trip valve when actuated blocking a source of fluid pressure from normal communication with a fluid sump, and the pressure-relief valve when actuated being operable for maintaining the working fluid pressure at a value determined by a variable potentiometer connected in circuit with the solenoid of the pressure relief valve.

Abstract: A catenary conveyor belt support is provided in a conveyor system for automated bulk processing equipment. The conveyor belt launches bulk articles along a trajectory from one end to a processing station. The upper surface of the conveyor belt at one end thereof is angled with respect to a horizontal plane and determines the launch angle of the trajectory along which the articles travel. The support holds constant the catenary shape of the belt and, thus, the launch angle of the trajectory regardless of the load thereon.

Abstract: A bulk product stabilization conveyor 10 is described having a continuous-length wide belt 30 extending in an upper flight 44 and in a lower flight 46 between an infeed end 32 and an outfeed end 34. The outfeed end 34 is elevationally below the infeed end 32 and the distance between the infeed end 32 and outfeed end 34 is such that the upper flight 44 is slack with the upper flight forming a dynamic catenary profile as it is being driven at a high velocity in excess of 400 feet per minute and preferably between 400-800 feet per minute. The upper flight 44 has an inclined downward and forward section 52 adjacent the infeed end that has an inclination of between 30 and 45 degrees to initially receive a wide swath of articles from an article feeder 14. The upper flight 44 has an intermediate section 54 with a progressively decreasing radius of curvatures to progressively apply an increasing centrifugal force on the articles to stabilize the articles on the high velocity upper flight.

Abstract: A plate stacking and transferring apparatus includes plate stacking mechanism for continuously stacking plates. The mechanism comprises: a pair of rollers provided at the leading end of a conveyor for transporting pasted plates, for taking a plate in a gap therebetween while rotating and thus ejecting the plate, and adjusting the plate ejection angle; a collision wall for limiting the flight distance of plates; a first stacker table for receiving plates while descending; a device for registering plates stacked on the first table by repeatedly pushing the plates from the sides thereof; and a second stacker table provided below the first table. When the first table has passed the stack of plates over to the second table, another device of the stacking mechanism moves the first table to a standby position above the plate flight region, keeps it at the position, and moves it down to a position below the plate flight region during a shot so that the first table takes over the plate stacking.

Abstract: The material slinger includes an upper section with feed hopper suitable for rotatably connecting to a vertically disposed feed chute or tube. Affixed below the feed hopper is a pivotal main body which can be repositioned to alter the angle of the dispensed material. The material is fed from the feed hopper to a funnel shaped hopper in the main body where it is directed onto the curved surface of a high speed rotating throwing belt. The belt, along with the positionable main body, allows the material to be thrown a significant distance and at a wide range of readily changed angles. Also included is an air vent located between the feed hopper and funnel hopper which allows free circulation of air into and or out of the material feed path. The air vent serves as a pressure relief and a vacuum preventing arrangement depending upon the circumstances of material flow.

Abstract: A centrifugal thrower apparatus, which may be used on swivelloaders, swivelpilers, box car loaders, pilers, ship trimmers and the like, capable of maintaining a substantially constant belt tension over a wide range of angles of discharge. Preferably, a cam is provided to continually adjust the distance between the two sets of pulleys on which the belt is mounted, such that constant or substantially constant belt tension is maintained for different angles of discharge.

Abstract: Conveyor belt system for varying the parabola of fall of a conveyed material, has an endless conveyor belt having upper and lower runs supported by and traveling along a belt carrier, and the conveyed material is projected from the conveyor belt at the downsteam end of the upper run. The conveyor belt system also has a support roller carrier having upstream and downstream ends, and a plurality of support rollers for supporting the upper run of the endless conveyor belt. The support roller carrier is pivotably attached at its upstream end to the carrier. There is a return pulley for guiding the endless conveyor belt from its upper to its lower run, and the parabola of fall of the conveyed material is varied by use of a vertically adjustable snub pulley. A pivot arm varies the height of the pulley and is actuated by a hydraulic cylinder.

Abstract: The invention provides a self-propelled fully operational loose bulk material slinger in a vehicle equipped to be driven. A slinger and hopper is mounted on a chassis supported by a triangular arrangement of road wheels. Individual powering of two road wheels, one on each side of the chassis, allows self-powered mobility and the road wheels can be steered for directional release of a material being stockpiled. A third small road wheel attached to swivel, balances the vehicle and can be retracted and extended to angle the vehicle for increasing and decreasing trajectory height of material being stockpiled. An engine and a hydraulic system provides mobility and mechanical adjustability to the vehicle. A stand-on control station allows the slinger vehicle according to the invention to be fully controlled by a single operator.

Abstract: An arrangement for the essentially uniform level placement of bulk material in an upright circular cylindrical vessel. The arrangement includes a throwing device for throwing the bulk material into the vessel. A feeding device feeds the bulk material onto the throwing device. The throwing device is rotatably mounted about a vertical axis, the rate of rotation of throwing means being controllable. The throwing device includes an essentially horizontally extending endless conveyor belt. The length of the conveyor belt is relatively short in relation to the diameter of the vessel. The conveying speed of the conveyor belt is controllable within a range from a minimum speed for throwing the bulk material into the center region of the vessel and a maximum speed for throwing the bulk material into the peripheral area of the vessel.

Abstract: A portable projection apparatus has an endless belt running over rollers and a rotatable disk having a band on its outer surface. The endless belt partially embraces the band, and the projection material is accelerated between grooves in the band and the endless belt. The band with the longitudinal grooves can be easily exchanged for other groove cross-sections and the interior surface of the belt is provided with a profiling which runs parallel to the circumferential direction, into which the outer surface of the rollers, guiding the endless belt engage with a corresponding profile.

Abstract: A loading trimmer for dispersing granular material from a loading chute in an adjustable trajector into the hold of a ship or the like. A trimmer carriage with spaced drums carrying an endless belt is positioned below the chute outlet and pivotal about the center of a pair of idler wheels which centrally engage the belt on either side thereof to form an arcuate material receiving and dispersing path. One of the drums is driven by a motor mounted on a remote pivotal platform connected to the trimmer carriage by connecting rods. The carriage is also connected to a remote crank through connecting rods and the crank is driven by a motor which controls the angle of the carriage with respect to the chute and the trajectory of the dispersion.

Abstract: An improved directional control apparatus for a bale thrower on a baler includes an elongated arm pivotally mounted at one end to a side of the bale case of the baler and extending generally across and under the end of the thrower being pivotally mounted to the discharge end of the bale case for side-to-side lateral swinging movement. The control apparatus also includes a hydraulic cylinder interconnecting the bale case and the free end of the elongated arm and means for slidably interconnecting the arm to the thrower such that upon actuation of the hydraulic cylinder to pivot the arm, the interconnection established between the arm and the thrower by the slidable means will cause the thrower to also pivot or laterally swing and thereby vary the direction in which bales will be thrown away from the baler by the thrower.