Abstract: A tobacco harvester discharge system is provided for uniformally distributing tobacco leaves into a tobacco bin. A set of rolls positioned over the discharge intercepts a substantial portion of the discharged tobacco leaves and directs them radially outward over the width of the bin. A fan located below the discharge blows air under the discharged tobacco leaves to extend the trajectory of the leaves over the length of the bin by a distance roughly proportional to the flow rate of air from the fan from time to time. The flow rate is controlled in a predetermined pattern to obtain uniform distribution of the discharged leaves over the bin.

Abstract: A rear bagging receptacle for a power lawn mower has a lift-off collection bag and a flip-top lid. The collection bag has a frame sewn into a flexible fabric around its mouth, the frame allowing the bag to be rested on the laterally spaced, rearwardly extending legs of a handlebar frame. The flip-top lid has an integral, stiff, recessed member and yieldable, opposing fingers at a back end of the member to pivotably and detachably mount the lid to a crossbar of the handlebar frame. There, the lid pivots forwardly and downwardly to close over the mouth of the collection bag and exit of a discharge chute extending on the front edge of the collection bag. The lid also pivots upwardly and rearwardly to allow access to the collection bag and lift-off removal of the collection bag or disposable liner bag.

Abstract: A self-propelled cotton harvester having a cotton receiving and unloading basket mounted for vertical movement between cotton-receiving and cotton-unloading positions in a level attitude wherein the basket comprises a chain conveyor for cotton unloading regardless of angle and moving load on the door in all basket height positions.

Abstract: A cotton harvester basket for accumulating picked cotton comprises four walls, a floor with a conveyor and a detachable roof section. The basket is vertically moveable between its raised and lowered positions by hydraulic cylinders disposed at the opposite ends of the basket. The same cylinders can be used for telescopically bringing the roof section into and out of the space encompassed by the basket walls.

Abstract: A leaf and lawn debris lift and bagger apparatus comprising a wheeled container having a debris scooper assembly pivotally secured to the outer periphery thereof, the scooper assembly being movable between a collapsed storage position against the outer periphery of the container to a scooping position adjacent the surface of the lawn or the like wherein debris has accumulated. The debris may be swept into the interior of the extended scooper assembly, and the scooper assembly may be pivoted to a discharge position whereby the debris contained therein may fall by gravity into the interior of the container.

Abstract: A combine for harvesting and threshing grain has features to prevent grain and time wastage even if the combine is tilted sideways, and other features to simplify the threshing equipment. The combine has a sieve housing that is mounted on rollers to the frame. These rollers allow the sieve housing to swing like a pendulum if the combine tilts sideways. The combine has inner and outer cylindrical bodies that rotate together opposite to the rotation of a threshing drum. The threshing drum and grate are conical with the rearward end being smaller than the forward end. A beater for beating grain rotates with the threshing drum, causing grain to fall through slots located in the inner body. The space between the inner and outer body contains a helical flight for transporting this rescued grain back to the forward end and to the sieves. Elevating rings mounted to the outer body rotate with the outer body to lift material from the sieve to the bin, if clean grain, and back to the threshing grate, if tailings.

Abstract: A storage box for the clippings of a lawnmower consisting of a normally covered box adapted to be mounted on the mower vehicle and to receive grass cuttings and the like of the mower until it is full, and a power mechanism operable when actuated to first raise the box until its pouring lip is higher than the receiving box of a disposal vehicle, such as the bed of a pick-up truck, and transport it horizontally until its pouring lip is over the truck bed, and then to uncover the box and tilt it to pour its contents over its lip into the truck bed.

Abstract: A lawn debris collection system includes a collection box coupled to the outlet of a lawn mower by duct work including an assist blower. The box is mounted for tilting about a pivotal connection between the bottom of the box and a support frame carried at the rear of a vehicle carrying the mower. A manually operable linkage is mounted on the box for selectively releasing a box and door latch members, which respectively hold the box in an upright fill position and the door closed, when it is desired to tilt the box rearwardly to a dump position.

Abstract: An improved power lawn rake has a rotor provided with a plurality of ground-engaging spring tines. The dead leaves and other debris are carried by the rotor along the curved forward wall of a deflector box, and are discharged between the deflector box and a front channel and into a molded bin. The bin is removably mounted on respective side housings of the main frame of the power lawn rake. Ground-engaging forward wheels are vertically adjustable on brackets mounted on the front channel. The wheels are nested within externally-accessible recesses formed in the bin. A driving motor is cantilever mounted on one of the side housings of the frame for driving the rotor. The drive is through gearing (in a gear case secured to the motor housing) and through a belt and pulley arrangement accessible through a cover plate removably secured to the side housing.

Abstract: Apparatus for leaf and grass vacuuming and compaction in a bag, although usable independently is shown mounted on a wheeled carriage of a power lawnmower on which are mounted a push-handle, a gasoline engine, a lawnmower blade drivable by the engine, a vacuum chamber enclosing a fan drivable by the engine, and a receptacle bag above which is mounted a compactor having a reciprocably movable ram. The ram is driven either by a belt-drive from the engine, or by an electric motor energized from the engine generator or starter battery, or by a hydraulic pump/motor system driven by the engine. A pick-up hose is attached to the vacuum chamber inlet and a discharge hose is attached to the vacuum chamber outlet whereby material such as leaves and grass clippings entering the pick-up hose are expelled through the discharge hose into the removable bag. As the material fills the bag, the compactor is actuated to cause the movable ram member to repeatedly descend into the bag to compact the material therein.

Abstract: A bagging lawn mower includes a mower blade housing having a discharge outlet, and a material-conveying duct has one end connected for receiving material from the housing and another end connected for depositing conveyed material into the top of a receptacle. The conveyance of material through the duct is assisted by a blower having an inlet coupled for drawing air in from the receptacle and having an outlet coupled to an air duct having an outlet nozzle located in the material-conveying duct at a location just upstream from the housing outlet and operative to cause a vacuum to be created which effects the induction of air from the housing.

Abstract: A tea harvester in the form of a wheeled vehicle adapted to straddle at least one row of plants carries therebeneath a horizontal transverse cutter bar in position to clip the tops of the plants in a row. Blower and manifold means are carried by the vehicle for emitting a horizontally-elongated vertically narrow stream of air rearwardly and downwardly across the cutter bar for blowing clippings rearwardly off the bar into the mouth of a conveyor means. The undersurface of the manifold means and its airstream-defining outlet are spaced above and forwardly of the bar to enable the tops of the plants to stand upright in the path of the airstream while being clipped. The conveyor means extends upwardly and rearwardly to convey the clippings to a collecting receptacle. The cutter bar, the blower and manifold means, and the conveyor means are all mounted to vehicle for vertical adjustment to adjust the above-ground cutting height of the cutter bar.

Abstract: In an articulated combine, the hinge arrangement connecting the front and rear bogies consists of spaced-apart upper and lower links. The lower link construction provides for oscillation between the bogies as well as establishing a steering pivot center. The upper link normally lies in a fore-and-aft plane and is pivotally connected between rearward upper portions of the respective bogies, thus spanning the length of the rear bogie. The hinge arrangement also provides part of the structure for a conveyor for conveying clean grain between the front and rear bogies. In one embodiment, the upper link comprises an auger tube into which clean grain is introduced by a clean grain elevator and cross auger. In another embodiment, the lower link assembly does double duty as an auger conveyor housing.

Abstract: A vacuum apparatus which may be supported by a tractor-lawn mower combination and which includes a collection bin and a vacuum producing impeller driven by a hydraulic motor for collecting grass clippings, leaves and similar refuse is presented herein. The impeller and hydraulic motor are located within the collection bin and provided with ducts to channel exhaust air through the bottom of the bin to muffle operational noise and increase the efficiency of the system.

Abstract: In an articulated combine, the hinge arrangement connecting the front and rear bogies consists of spaced-apart upper and lower links. The lower link construction provides for oscillation between the bogies as well as establishing a steering pivot center. The upper link normally lies in a fore-and-aft plane and is pivotally connected between rearward upper portions of the respective bogies, thus spanning the length of the rear bogie. The hinge arrangement also provides part of the structure for a conveyor for conveying clean grain between the front and rear bogies. In one embodiment, the upper link comprises an auger tube into which clean grain is introduced by a clean grain elevator and cross auger. In another embodiment, the lower link assembly does double duty as an auger conveyor housing.

Abstract: A bagger attachment for a tractor has a bag frame that includes a pair of upright brackets fixed to the rear end of the tractor which support, for vertical sliding action, a pair of plates fixed to respective bag rims. There is provided, on the lawn mower, an upwardly and rearwardly projecting grass duct that has its upper discharge end positioned over the bag rims and which directs the grass clippings in a transverse direction. Flexible bags are provided on each of the rims and depend therefrom. A bagger lid receives the discharge end of the tube. The lid is mounted on an axis that is substantially perpendicular to the portion of the duct that extends through the opening in the lid so that as the lid is raised, the duct will slide through the opening. For discharging the bag, the rim may be raised to cause the horizontal plates to slide free of the vertical brackets.

Abstract: A compaction apparatus for use with lawn grooming equipment such as a lawn mower, leaf blower and the like, including a compactor housing having an inlet opening at one end to receive the refuse material picked up from the lawn and a screw conveyor rotatably mounted within the housing to transport and compact the received material as it is advanced through the conveyor housing. Perforations in the housing provide outlets for evacuating from the housing, air and moisture separated from the compressed material as it is initially compacted in the housing. A flexible tubular collector casing or hose is extensibly connected to the outlet end of the compactor housing, into which the initially compacted material is continuously advanced.

Abstract: An elongated hollow housing is provided including front and rear sides and opposite ends. The housing defines an air passage extending therethrough including an inlet end opening through and extending longitudinally of the front side of the housing. The housing also defines an outlet for the passage opening outwardly of the housing remote from the inlet. Seed separating structure is provided within the air passage intermediate the inlet and outlet and is operative to separate seeds from the air flow moving through the passage. The inlet is defined between opposing generally parallel longitudinal marginal portions of the housing and one marginal portion is disposed forward and above the other marginal portion, whereby the inlet opens outwardly of the housing in a foward and downward direction. An elongated seed stripping rotary brush is journaled in the housing for rotation about an axis extending longitudinally thereof with between 30.degree. and 90.degree.

Abstract: Lift arms are mounted upon a cotton module builder. Cotton harvested from the field is placed into a basket which sets upon a convex guide upon a trailer. The trailer is pulled by a tractor to the module builder alongside the arms. The guide, together with the basket, is moved laterally toward the module builder. The arms are actuated to lift the basket from the guide to above the module builder. As the basket moves above the module builder a trip upon the module builder unlatches a door formed by one of the sides of the basket allowing the cotton to fall from the basket into the module builder. After the cotton has emptied into the module builder the basket is returned to the guide upon the trailer. The basket on the trailer is then moved to a harvester and refilled with harvested cotton.

Abstract: A vacuum grass collecting apparatus for a tractor-type lawnmower having a rear discharge opening in its cutting deck and a rear power-take-off. A refuse container and a blower are independently mounted on the rear of a tractor-type lawnmower. The blower consists essentially of a housing having an intake opening and a discharge opening, a rotatable drive shaft having a plurality of impeller blades mounted thereon and a support bearing for the rotatable drive shaft. An articulated duct is positioned under the rear axle of the tractor-type lawnmower and interconnects the rear discharge opening in the cutting deck and the intake opening in the housing of the blower. Another duct interconnects the discharge opening in the housing of the blower and an intake opening in the refuse container. The entire apparatus is positioned between the two imaginary parallel vertical planes which contain the outer extremities of the tractor-type lawnmower.

Abstract: A cotton module builder comprising an open-top frame. At the rear end of the frame is a rear door mounted for pivotal movement. When seed cotton has been compressed into a module, it is removed from the open-top frame, while the rear door is opened. While the seed cotton is being compressed by the cotton module builder, the rear door is closed. Secured to the rear end of the frame is a cradle that supports extractor apparatus for removing foreign matter from seed cotton before the seed cotton is deposited into the open-top frame for compression. Pivotally supported by the cradle is a basket and lifting conveyor. Means are provided for raising and lowering the basket and lifting conveyor. Before the rear door of the module builder is opened for the removal of a cotton module from the open-top frame, the basket and the lifting conveyor are raised out of the path of movement of the rear door and the compressed cotton module advancing therethrough.

Abstract: A machine for clearing and cleanly chipping trees and brushwood in the path of the machine as it moves forward. A pair of counterrotating disk cutters cut a kerf in the standing material and propel the cut material upwardly and rearwardly to the throat between a pair of feed rollers. The feed rollers deliver the cut material to a chipper, which reduces the material to chips and delivers them to a chip storage bin. The bin can be tilted to dump chips alongside the machine. The entire mechanism is carried by a self-propelled, articulated, track-supported vehicle which is especially well-suited for operation over soft, boggy ground.

Abstract: A device for spreading plants, such as tomato vines, generally across the width of an interior chamber of a conventional harvester, such as a tomato harvester, after the vines have been cut from their root systems in a field, fed onto a forward end of a driven inclined chain belt conveyor, pivotally carried on a front end of the harvester, and discharged into a harvester chamber for processing, such as removing the tomatoes from the vines, cleaning, sorting, etc., by existing conventional means. The spreader device comprises a pair of chain conveyors, each comprised of a pair of spaced apart sprockets, rotatably mounted relative to opposed ends of an elongated support member, a chain engaged about the sprockets and extending therebetween, and a plurality of outwardly extending, spaced apart fingers, fixed to the chain at their inner ends along the length of the chain.

Abstract: A combine has an unloading tube containing an auger, which tube is moveable between a retracted position and an unloading position. Movement is controlled by the operator from the operator's platform by a hydraulic system. The system includes an actuator cooperating with a valve to control a hydraulic cylinder. The cylinder is interconnected to the tube causing movement thereto.

Abstract: A vehicular forage harvester has a trailer wagon pivotally connected ther with a chute operating to deliver an agricultural crop cut by the forage harvester into the trailer wagon. The chute includes a flexible section which enables the discharge end of the chute to be maintained in a position to deposit the crop into the trailer wagon when the wagon is pivotally moved relative to the forage vehicle.

Abstract: In a mower equipped with a grasscatcher, the grasscatcher is attached easily by means projecting upwardly from a deck of the mower, means being integral to a rigid portion of the grasscatcher and embracing the projecting means when the grasscatcher is mounted to the deck, and a block which cooperates with an upper lip on the rigid portion so as to restrain the grasscatcher from being detached unintentionally from the deck if the grasscatcher happens to be bumped from beneath, but so as to enable the grasscatcher to be detached easily.

Abstract: A grass collection cart having an access door and a closed bottom portion receives the airborne grass clippings discharged by a rotary cutting blade assembly. Auxiliary walls on the access door define an air discharge passage having an intake end spaced from the closed bottom portion of the cart and communicating with the interior of the cart when the access door is in its closed position. The discharge passage also has an outlet end opening near the ground. The incoming flow of airborne grass clippings entering the interior of the cart is directed toward the closed bottom portion and away from the intake end of the discharge passage so that the incoming flow of air will be deflected by the closed bottom portion toward the intake end of the discharge passage. The grass clippings consequently settle from the air stream and into the closed bottom portion, and the outgoing flow of air is expelled from the cart through the discharge passage near ground level.

Abstract: An improved brake mechanism is disclosed for use on an agricultural bag loading apparatus (10) having a pair of cable drums (20, 21) secured to the loading apparatus for deploying cables (18, 19) attached to the filled end of an agricultural bag (12). The brake mechanism comprises a disc brake rotor (23) rigidly secured to one end of a brake drum (20), a plurality of disc brake calipers (25) secured to the loading apparatus (10) and a hydraulic fluid pressurizer (29). Braking action between the rotor (23) and the calipers (25) permits control of the compression of the material packed within the agricultural bag (12).

Abstract: A stone picking machine is disclosed. The machine comprises a frame having a draft tongue adapted to be attached to the drawbar of a tractor, a cross-axle with a pair of wheels supporting the frame, a box mounted on the frame, means for picking up stones in the field while the machine is being hauled by a tractor and for loading the stones in the box, and means for raising the box upwardly and for tilting it sidewise to dump the stones into a truck or a pile of stones.

Abstract: A sugar cane harvester has a wheel-mounted or equivalent main frame, a base cutter for cutting the cane near ground level as the harvester advances, a chopping cutter for cutting the cane stalks into billets, means for feeding the stalks from the base cutter to the chopping cutter, and means for elevating and discharging the billets, the chopping cutter and elevating means including a rotary cutter with a knife blade on a rotatable shaft, and a thrower having a vane extending from a thrower shaft, the two shafts being parallel and counter-rotated, the cutter knife blade and the vane coacting to sever cane fed to the chopping cutter into billets, the thrower vane acting to throw the severed billets upwardly through a cane guide chute from which they are discharged, preferably into a bin mounted on the main frame and capable of being tilted to empty its contents.

Abstract: A mobile meal production means for a crop, such as lucerne, comprising a self propelled vehicle carrying a pick-up reel, a conveyor connecting the reel to a hammer-mill and a cyclone device connected to the hammer-mill. The output of the cyclone is fed, via a first vertically disposed auger, to the top of a holding hopper. A second vertically disposed auger is then connected between the bottom of the hopper and the top of a bagger.

Abstract: A mobile combine harvester comprises a reaping assembly comprising a laterally extending platform, a cutter bar at the forward edge of the platform, a reel above the cutter bar and a screw conveyor for transporting cut grain to a discharge point. A thrashing assembly which is inclined upwardly rearwardly receives cut grain directly from the reaping assembly and comprises a cylindrical casing, a cylindrical screen in the casing and a rotor in the cylindrical screen. The rotor comprises a cylindrical portion provided with a helically extending vane carrying pins or blades for thrashing the grain. At the rear end of the rotor there is a coaxial radial fan which discharges straw from which grain has been recovered. Below the cylindrical screen there is a grain-collecting trough with a screw conveyor for transporting the grain to the rear where it is delivered directly to a cleaning assembly comprising a vibrating screen and blower for removing light waste.

Abstract: A grass catcher having upper and lower hollow sections, each providing sidewalls of substantially equal depth and a transverse wall extending between said sidewalls. The upper section is connected to the lower section to provide a relatively deep container adapted to receive grass cuttings in a grass catcher mode. The upper and lower sections are nestable, one within the other, in a storage mode and can be disposed about the lawn mower motor assembly to facilitate shipping.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for collecting the discharged grass clippings of a lawn mower. The lawn mower includes a discharge opening at the lateral side or the rear side of the lawn mower. Grass clippings are directed through the discharge opening to a conveyor member, thereafter the clippings are deposited in a catcher. The present invention does not require a high speed air flow to discharge the grass clippings. Further, since the grass clippings are discharged by a conveyor member into the top opening of a catcher the level of grass clippings positioned in the catcher may readily be observed so that it is very easy to determine when the catcher should be emptied.

Abstract: A mobile, self-propelled chaff-production means in which windrowed hay is picked up and conveyed to a chaff-cutter via a covered conveyor. As the hay moves along the conveyor it is moistened by steam applied to it through jets located beneath the input region of the conveyor so that when the hay reaches the chaff-cutter it is moist enough not to be fractured on impact of the blades and cutter bar. The resulting chaff is then conveyed by an auger to a twin-column screw bagger as a final, saleable product.

Abstract: A cotton harvester with an offset head having four row units positioned for harvesting cotton planted in uniformly spaced narrow rows. The frame of the harvester is supported near its forward end by a pair of drive wheels adapted to run between two pairs of rows of cotton. The head is offset so that three rows of cotton are accommodated between the wheels and one row of cotton is accommodated outside one of the wheels. The machine drive and guide wheels can therefore be positioned between the rows for ease in steering and driving. A cotton basket on the harvester can be dumped toward the side which is unobstructed by a harvesting unit so the receiving implement can be positioned closer to the harvester and so the head which is offset in the opposite direction can act as a counterweight to balance the harvester as the basket is extended transversely for dumping.

Abstract: A self-driven forage harvester including a main vehicle and a trailer opeively joined therewith wherein the trailer includes an upwardly inclined scraper floor and an axle with a pair of drive wheels located below the forward half of the scraper floor. The main vehicle also includes a drive axle and drive wheels with a drive unit for the forage harvester being mounted thereabove. A pair of steering wheels are located forwardly of the main vehicle drive wheels.

Abstract: A grass catching accessory attachable on a rotary power lawn mower, the device including a basket in which a plastic bag trash can liner is placed, the bag mouth being fitted around a tubular mouthpiece secured fixedly to the mower and through which grass clippings are discharged, the basket being pivotally attached to a spout pivoted on said mouthpiece, so to dump a filled bag.

Abstract: A molded plastic grass catcher for a lawn mower or the like. The catcher is formed from a two piece construction so that it may be shipped in a compact, knocked-down condition but easily assembled by the ultimate user. The housing is configured with a pair of air outlets that are disposed out of the path of discharge from the mower discharge chute so as to permit the free exit of air while at the same time precluding the discharge of grass. In some embodiments of the invention, a baffle is also positioned between the inlet and outlet so as to further add in the grass separation without restricting the air flow.

Abstract: A forage press is disclosed for use in injecting forage or other feed material into an elongated flexible horizontal forage receptacle or silo. The forage press includes an injection chamber for introducing material into the forage receptacle and a press wheel which presses the material through the injection chamber into the receptacle. The press wheel is formed in a circular shape and includes a plurality of sectors each of which is formed at a canted angle so as to press the forage material into the injection chamber as the press wheel is rotationally driven by an external source of power.

Abstract: Improvements are described in self-bagging devices for collecting lawn clippings. A substantially impermeable disposable lawn bag is mounted underneath a movable frame above and behind the lawn mower or like instrument. The open end of the bag fits around a perforate member secured to the frame. A permeable bag is mounted above the perforate member. A chute connects a port in the housing of the lawn mower to the enclosure defined by the impermeable bag and the perforate member.

Abstract: A rotary mower having an inverted housing with a discharge opening formed in the rear surface thereof, the opening having a cover plate which is hinged at the rear edge of the housing and biased into a normally closing position. The plate has a pair of integral arms projecting beyond the hinge at its lateral edges. A pair of parallel guide plates are secured to the housing in positions closely alongside the respective arms, the guide plates having angled but parallel slots extending forwardly and downwardly therein. A grass catcher is provided having a mouth dimensioned to receive the cover plate and including a support bar spaced horizontally above the mouth, the support bar, upon insertion into the slots, serving to engage the arms for progressively swinging of the cover plate into a horizontally extending position within the catcher.

Abstract: The invention concerns a machine for cutting and gathering vegetables such as spinach, the machine consisting of a chassis having a wheeled front sub-chassis hinged to a wheeled rear sub-chassis about a vertical axis, means for varying the relative positions of the two sub-chassis around the axis, means carried by the front sub-chassis, for cutting and gathering a bucket for storage arranged on the rear sub-chassis, and a transporter device which joins the means for cutting and gathering to the bucket.

Abstract: A mower and grass collector, the mower having a closure over its discharge port for opening and closing the port in accordance with the mounting of the grass collector on the mower housing, the closure being spring biased to a closed position and being swingable forwardly and downwardly in the housing by operating means carried by the collector and intrudable into the housing through the port to press open the closure upon mounting of the collector on the mower housing.

Abstract: Orchard fruit handling apparatus for conveying and delivering harvested fruit into a plurality of storage bins comprising a first conveyor for adjustable attachment to a conventional farm tractor for receiving and transporting fruit received thereon in a generally linear direction rearwardly of the tractor, and trailer means for attachment to the tractor containing a second conveyor for receiving harvested fruit from the first conveyor and selectively directing the fruit into a plurality of storage bins carried on the trailer. A plurality of deflecting blades or bars are selectively positionable across the second conveyor to selectively intercept and deflect the fruit into corresponding bin filler mechanisms located along the side of the second conveyor and above corresponding collection bins.

Abstract: An apparatus for mechanized harvesting of grass clippings comprises a vehicle with a T-shaped hydraulically driven extension platform for cutting and recovering grass clippings. The extension platform has a central arm with a lateral arm at the end thereof. A plurality of horizontally disposed reel-type scissor mower heads are mounted on the front and rear sides of the lateral arm, the outlets of the mower heads being directed into a horizontal trough within the lateral arm. The mower heads are operative to cut the grass and to throw the clippings into the trough. Within the trough are provided endless chains on pulleys to which are mounted spaced paddles which are operative to accumulate the grass clippings toward a central opening to a central trough within the central arm. Within the central trough are provided a plurality of endless chains and pulleys to which are mounted spaced paddles.

Abstract: A controllable hydraulic power transfer system for coupling rotary energy produced at an auxiliary power take-off of a tractor type vehicle to a vehicle attachment or lug is presented herein. An exemplary adaptation of the power transfer system is presented where a riding lawn mower supports a vacuum lawn clipping collection assembly which includes a blower impeller powered by the hydraulic power transfer system.

Abstract: A replaceable thin polyethylene bag attachable to a rotary power lawn mower for catching grass clippings, the mower including a duct leading upward from the underside chamber wherein the cutter blade rotates, the bag being fitted on the end of the duct and standing upon a supporting platform mounted on a rear end of the mower, and the bag being perforated with air vent holes so to allow escape of air while the grass clippings collect inside the bag, and in one design the mower platform automatically is rearwardly downwardly pivoted to unload a bag when filled while a pivotable nozzle automatically positions a next bag for loading.

Abstract: An apparatus employing a self propelling chassis for the harvesting of sugar cane employing copying wheels for following the microrelief of the ground responsive to movement in a harvesting section of the apparatus. A crosscutting assembly employing two differently dimensioned drums with off-set blades is used to cut the cane; and an associated pneumatically operated cleaning chamber employing dispersing drums, vanes, and shutters in conjuction with specifically placed blowers, act upon foreign matter during the harvesting operation and eject same to the outside of the chamber where it is deflected to a desired location.

Abstract: An improved brake mechanism is disclosed for use on an agricultural bag loading apparatus (10) having a pair of cable drums (20, 21) secured to the loading apparatus for deploying cables (18, 19) attached to the filled end of an agricultural bag (12). The brake mechanism comprises a disc brake rotor (23) rigidly secured to one end of a brake drum (20), a plurality of disc brake calipers (25) secured to the loading apparatus (10) and a hydraulic fluid pressurizer (29). Braking action between the rotor (23) and the calipers (25) permits control of the compression of the material packed within the agricultural bag (12).