Alexandra C. Collier-DeChristopher,Kevin S. Richman,Michael J. Minnich,Geoffrey Rendell,Donald Keller,Christopher D. Sellers,Jesse H. Orsborn
申请号:
US14338911
公开号:
US20160021822A1
申请日:
2014.07.23
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2016
代理人:
摘要:
A cotton harvester includes plant cutting apparatus to sever cotton plants from a ground surface, plant conveyor apparatus to convey the severed plants into and through a picking chamber, and cotton picking apparatus including picker spindles that move upwardly into the picking chamber through a floor of the chamber to pick cotton filaments from bolls of the plants conveyed as a flattened mat therethrough and carry the cotton downwardly through the floor to doffers that remove the cotton from the spindles. Cotton conveyor apparatus also below the floor conveys the cotton to a receiver, while the plant residue passes from the chamber.