MULTIPLE-DISC COMMINUTION APPARATUS

摘要

A harvester (64) is provided at its front end with a pick-up (66) which delivers cut crop to a transfer conveyor (68). The conveyor in turn delivers the crop, into the path of two recessed rollers (70, 71) which compact the crop to a certain extent and hold the crop in this compacted state while it is cut at intervals across the width of the rollers by interdigitating crop-slicing discs (12) counter-rotating with the upper recessed roller. At the rear of the harvester, intermeshing sections of a recessed roller (75) extract the crop from the inter-disc spaces, the speed of the extraction roller being fast enough to throw the crop onto the lower end of a ribbed belt conveyor (77) for delivery into a bulk trailer or other form of container (not shown).