公开(公告)号：US4201285A

公开(公告)日：1980-05-06

申请号：US705374

申请日：1976-07-14

Applicant: Neal C. Chamberlain

Inventor： Neal C. Chamberlain

IPC: B65G47/14 ,  A01F11/06 ,  B65G47/24 ,  B65G47/256

CPC classification number: A01F11/06 ,  B65G47/256 ,  B65G2201/0211

Abstract: Husked ears of corn are fed individually between the flights of a forwardly moving flight conveyor and are supported by a rearwardly moving conveyor belt which spins the ears about their axes causing them to move in the direction of their axes until the smaller ends of the ears have moved close to or engage one of the side walls of the conveyor, depending upon which direction the ears are pointing. This forms two lanes of preoriented ears. At the delivery end of the preorienting conveyor, the ears are dropped with their axes generally parallel and horizontal and the ears of each lane fall against one side of a V shaped butt deflector which defects the following butts of the ears from each lane from vertical free fall but allows the smaller ends to continue to fall freely until they encounter the deflector. The ears now slide down a chute with their smaller ends forward and the side walls of the chute converge so as to singulate the ears from both lanes into a row of ears pointed small end first which row is picked up by a rearwardly moving cutter feeder conveyor.The conveyor conducts the row of ears, which are now axially aligned pointed small end first, into a rotary corn cutter of a type well known in the art. In order to stabilize the ears and maintain their axes generally parallel until they fall against the butt deflector, light frictional engagement is made with the ears of each row, by a curtain of flexible chains hanging down at the delivery end of the preorienting conveyor.

Abstract translation: 蜂巢的玉米耳朵单独地在前进的飞行传送器的飞行物之间进给，并且由向后移动的传送带支撑，该传送带将耳朵绕其轴线旋转，使得它们沿其轴线的方向移动，直到耳朵的较小端部具有 移动靠近或接合输送机的一个侧壁，这取决于耳朵指向的方向。 这形成了两条前置方向的耳朵。 在预取向输送机的输送端，耳朵的轴线大致平行和水平地下降，每个通道的耳朵落在V形对接偏转器的一侧，这使得每个通道的耳朵的以下对接从垂直游离 跌倒，但允许较小的端部继续自由下降，直到遇到偏转器。 耳朵现在向下滑动斜槽，其较小的端部向前滑动，并且滑槽的侧壁会聚，从而将两个车道的耳朵分成一排耳朵尖端的小端，第一排由一个向后移动的切纸机输送机 。 输送机将现在轴向对齐的小端的耳朵行传送到本领域熟知的旋转玉米切割机中。 为了稳定耳朵并保持它们的轴线大致平行，直到它们靠在对接偏转器上，通过在预取向输送机的输送端处垂直下来的柔性链条的帘子与每排的耳朵进行轻摩擦接合。