COTTON HARVESTER

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.

主权项

1. A cotton harvester, comprising cutting apparatus for severing cotton plants from the ground, plant conveyor apparatus for conveying the severed plants into and through a picking chamber, and picking apparatus including a plurality of spindles configured and operable to move into the picking chamber and pick cotton filaments from bolls of the plants conveyed through the picking chamber and carry the picked cotton into another area of the harvester, and doffers in the other area configured to remove the cotton from the spindles;
characterized by the conveyor apparatus bounding and enclosing an upper periphery of the picking chamber and being movable therealong for conveying the severed plants therethrough, and wherein the spindles extend upwardly through a surface bounding and enclosing a lower periphery of at least a portion of the picking chamber.