US3847266A - Ensilage loader with automatically positioned cutter reel - Google Patents
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- A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
- A01F—PROCESSING OF HARVESTED PRODUCE; HAY OR STRAW PRESSES; DEVICES FOR STORING AGRICULTURAL OR HORTICULTURAL PRODUCE
- A01F25/00—Storing agricultural or horticultural produce; Hanging-up harvested fruit
- A01F25/16—Arrangements in forage silos
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- A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
- A01F—PROCESSING OF HARVESTED PRODUCE; HAY OR STRAW PRESSES; DEVICES FOR STORING AGRICULTURAL OR HORTICULTURAL PRODUCE
- A01F25/00—Storing agricultural or horticultural produce; Hanging-up harvested fruit
- A01F25/16—Arrangements in forage silos
- A01F25/20—Unloading arrangements
- A01F25/2027—Unloading arrangements for trench silos
- A01F2025/2045—Unloading arrangements including a conveyor belt for transferring the material to a hopper
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- A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
- A01F—PROCESSING OF HARVESTED PRODUCE; HAY OR STRAW PRESSES; DEVICES FOR STORING AGRICULTURAL OR HORTICULTURAL PRODUCE
- A01F25/00—Storing agricultural or horticultural produce; Hanging-up harvested fruit
- A01F25/16—Arrangements in forage silos
- A01F25/20—Unloading arrangements
- A01F25/2027—Unloading arrangements for trench silos
- A01F2025/2063—Machinery for shredding successive parallel layers of material in a trench silo
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- ABSTRACT A boom swingable in a vertical plane acts to move a cutter reel down the wall of a pile of ensilage or similar material.
- the reel is mounted on an extension car- Appl. No.: 348,243
- Cutters for removing silage from a stack or pile of ensilage and loading it into a truck or other carrier have been known.
- the patented unit comprises in general a cutter mounted at the outer end of a pivotal arm, the arm operable to swing the cutter up and down with respect to the wall of the stack so as tocut ensilage from the wall.
- the cutter is associated with a conveyor having a receiver positioned near the base of the stack which receives the silage and enables it to be conveyed from the vicinity of the stack to an ap limbate receptacle.
- the device of the present invention is intendedto serve the same generalpurpose as the de vices noted above, but it does so ina way which avoids the problems noted in connection with those devices.
- the reel By virtue of a unique means of interconnectingthe reel with' the main pivotal boom, the reel is self-extending and retracting as the boom pivots, and no special operatorskills are required inorder to assure of a proper path of movement for the reel.
- the reel maintains a nearly vertical cut upon the face of the material.
- the number of moving parts are few, and lubricated areas not exposed to foreign material.
- the stability of the unit during transport is vastly improved over the vertical derrick machines.
- FIG. I is a side elevational view of an ensilage cutter and loaderconstructed in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention, parts being broken away for purposes of illustration;
- FIG. 2 is a generally top plan view taken generally along the line 2-2 of FIG. 1 in the direction of the arrows;
- FIG. 3 is a sectional view, on an enlarged scale, taken along line 3-3 of FIG. 2 in the direction of the arrows;
- FIG. 4 is a fragmentary sectional view, on an enlarged scale, taken along line 44 of FIG. 2 in the direction of the arrows;
- FIG. 5 is a fragmentary sectional view, on an enlarged scale, taken along line 5-5 of FIG. I in the direction of the arrows.
- the entire loader structure is carried by a tractor 10 of conventional construction.
- the loader is supported on the tractor toward the rearward end thereof by an upright frame structure 11 secured to the tractor rear axle and frame.
- the upright frame structure includes two spaced uprights 1 1a, the upper ends of which provide support for a horizontal structural tube 12.
- Tube 12 serves as the main support mounting for a conveyor 13, being connected thereto by arms 14 which are secured to and project radially upwardly from tube 12 on opposite sides of the conveyor.
- the arms 14 respectively carry bearings through which extends a. pin 15.
- the pin 15 passes through and extends outwardly from plates 16 which are secured to opposite sides of the conveyor as by bolting or otherwise. There is thus provided a pivotalinterconnection between the frame 11 and the conveyor, the pivot axis being the axis of the pin 15.
- the plates 16 have connected to their upper ends bearings 17.
- the bearings 17 cooperatewith stub axles 18 connected with and forming a part of the boom assembly .19 to provide a horizontal pivot therefor. More will be said of this later.
- the conveyor 13 is a conventional endless belt conveyor, the upper flight of the belt being indicated at 20 (FIG. 2) and the lower flight at 20a (FIG. 1).
- the belt is trained about rollers or drums at the opposite ends of the conveyor structure,.the upper drumbeing shown at 21.
- the belt is drivenby a hydraulic motor 22 drivingly connected with the drum 21.
- the lower drum (not shown) is located within the receptacle portion 13a atthe lower end of the conveyor, where the belt receives silage for delivery to the upper end of the con- .veyor where it can be discharged.
- the lower end of the conveyor is supported by an operating and support assembly including the hydraulic cylinder 23.
- the cylinder 23 is capable of raising and lowering the conveyor and receiver. 13a about the pivot axis 15.
- Asaddle 24 supports the boom in its stored position.
- the boom assembly 19 is located above and runs generally longitudinally of the conveyor 13. It carries at its outer end the silage disengaging reel 25.
- the reel is driven by an appropriate drive means, for example, another hydraulic motor shown schematically at 26 in FIG. 2.
- Motor 26 is supplied by a line 27 and drives the reel through chain 26a.
- the boom 19 is made up essentially of two components, which for purposes of illustration will be identified as the upper boom portion 28 and the lower boom portion 29.
- the reel 25 is carried at the outer end of the upper boom portion 28.
- each of the boom portions is preferably in the form of a rectangular tube.
- the boom portion 29 has associated with it the stub axles 18 providing a pivotal mounting for the boom.
- the stub axles are carried by a frame portion 30 connected with and extending rearwardly of the lower boom portion 29.
- the pivotal motion of, the boom is under the control of a hydraulic cylinder 31 which is pinned to a stationary pivot 32 on the conveyor 13 and at 33 to the frame 30.
- Appropriate hydraulic supply lines (notshown) are provided with the cylinder 31.
- the upper and lower boom portions are interconnected by links 34 and 35.
- the links are pivotally connected with the boom portions, link 34 at 34a and 34b and link 35 at 35a and 35b.
- the distance between pivot points 34a, 34b and 35a, 35b are the same and the links are parallel, as is evident from the drawings.
- Link 35 has an extension which is pivoted at 36 to a control link '37.
- the control link 37 is pivoted at v 38 to a relatively stationary pivot on the conveyor 13.
- the boom is raised, of course, by extending the hydraulic cylinder 31.
- the link 37 will be pivoted about its pivot axis 38.
- the link 35 in conjunction with link 34 will serve to control the relative positions of the upper boom 28 and lower boom 29.
- boom section 29 is pivoted upwardly, the relative length of the entire boom is increased and the boom is at its longest when it is at its uppermost position.
- the boom is then lowered so that the reel comes into contact with the silage.
- the radial distance of the reel from the boom pivot is shortened enough relative to the radial movement to insure that the reel at the midpoint of its travel from the top of the stack will be closer to the pivot axis than it was at the time the cut commenced.
- Silage loosened by the reel is, of course, delivered into the receptacle 13a where is is picked up by the conveyor and moved to the discharge.
- link means interconnecting said extension boom and said main boom for interrelated relative movement therebetween, said link means effecting movement of said extension boom relative to said main boom to vary the radial distance of said cutter from the main boom pivot axis in response to pivotal movement of said main boom.
- said link means including a pair of parallel links pivoted to said main and extension booms at fixed points thereon to form a parallelogram arrangement therewith, one of said links having an extension projecting beyond the parallelogram and a control link pivotally connected at one end with said extension, the other end of said control link pivoted to a relatively sationary mounting offset from the pivot axis of said main boom.
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US3976186A (en) * | 1975-02-24 | 1976-08-24 | B/J Manufacturing Co., Inc. | Ensilage loader |
US3985305A (en) * | 1975-05-07 | 1976-10-12 | Koehring Company | Silage unloader |
US4157164A (en) * | 1978-01-27 | 1979-06-05 | Helm Arnold E | Forage handler |
EP0015823A1 (en) * | 1979-02-28 | 1980-09-17 | Gustave Lucas | Ensilage cutter and distributor for stocked produce, especially in a flat silo |
US20080307761A1 (en) * | 2007-06-14 | 2008-12-18 | Gary Fehr | Silage pile defacer |
CN105692235A (en) * | 2016-03-26 | 2016-06-22 | 界首市润安机械有限公司 | Swing-arm winged wheel scraper |
US9927048B2 (en) | 2014-03-27 | 2018-03-27 | Joseph M. Zimmerman | Hose caddy for powered implements mounted on loaders |
CN109019057A (en) * | 2018-09-29 | 2018-12-18 | 黑龙江省畜牧机械化研究所 | It is a kind of to raise reclaimer with collapsible the green of lateral walking mechanism of rear-wheel |
CN109279377A (en) * | 2018-08-14 | 2019-01-29 | 上海正宏农牧机械设备有限公司 | A kind of silage taking machine |
US20210331329A1 (en) * | 2020-04-27 | 2021-10-28 | Deere & Company | Methods and systems for automatic control of bulk material removal |
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US2696375A (en) * | 1953-08-24 | 1954-12-07 | Merlin L Huff | Ensilage cutter and loader |
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Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US3976186A (en) * | 1975-02-24 | 1976-08-24 | B/J Manufacturing Co., Inc. | Ensilage loader |
US3985305A (en) * | 1975-05-07 | 1976-10-12 | Koehring Company | Silage unloader |
US4157164A (en) * | 1978-01-27 | 1979-06-05 | Helm Arnold E | Forage handler |
EP0015823A1 (en) * | 1979-02-28 | 1980-09-17 | Gustave Lucas | Ensilage cutter and distributor for stocked produce, especially in a flat silo |
US20080307761A1 (en) * | 2007-06-14 | 2008-12-18 | Gary Fehr | Silage pile defacer |
US7588203B2 (en) | 2007-06-14 | 2009-09-15 | Riverview, L.L.P. | Silage pile defacer |
US9927048B2 (en) | 2014-03-27 | 2018-03-27 | Joseph M. Zimmerman | Hose caddy for powered implements mounted on loaders |
CN105692235A (en) * | 2016-03-26 | 2016-06-22 | 界首市润安机械有限公司 | Swing-arm winged wheel scraper |
CN109279377A (en) * | 2018-08-14 | 2019-01-29 | 上海正宏农牧机械设备有限公司 | A kind of silage taking machine |
CN109279377B (en) * | 2018-08-14 | 2022-08-23 | 上海正宏农牧机械设备有限公司 | Silage reclaimer |
CN109019057A (en) * | 2018-09-29 | 2018-12-18 | 黑龙江省畜牧机械化研究所 | It is a kind of to raise reclaimer with collapsible the green of lateral walking mechanism of rear-wheel |
US20210331329A1 (en) * | 2020-04-27 | 2021-10-28 | Deere & Company | Methods and systems for automatic control of bulk material removal |
US11794355B2 (en) * | 2020-04-27 | 2023-10-24 | Deere & Company | Methods and systems for automatic control of bulk material removal |
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