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公开(公告)号:US20220104433A1
公开(公告)日:2022-04-07
申请号:US17551254
申请日:2021-12-15
发明人: Gerardus J. Brouwer , Ian L. Morgan
摘要: A harvesting system for harvesting sod includes: (a) a harvester frame; (b) a cutting assembly mounted to the harvester frame for cutting the sod into slabs, each slab having a cut-off length; (c) a conveyor assembly supported by the harvester frame for transporting the slabs away from the cutting assembly toward a measuring location; and (d) a control system operable to: (i) determine a length difference between a measured length for at least one slab at the measuring location and a target length, and (ii) adjust the cut-off length for subsequent slabs to compensate for the length difference.
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公开(公告)号:US20230157224A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-25
申请号:US17979820
申请日:2022-11-03
CPC分类号: A01G20/15 , B65G57/24 , B65G57/03 , B65G65/34 , B65G2201/0267
摘要: A method of operating a stacking head of a sod harvester includes: (a) repeatedly transferring sod slabs from a transfer station located along a conveyor assembly of the sod harvester to a pallet station of the sod harvester to form a loaded pallet at the pallet station; (b) during replacement of the loaded pallet with an empty pallet, forming a stack of slabs at the transfer station; and (c) transferring the stack of slabs from the transfer station to the pallet station for deposit on the empty pallet when received at the pallet station, and repeating (a) to (c) in a continuous sod harvesting process.
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