John P. Scrivner
Engineering at Hwy 3266, Thibodaux, LA
License number
Louisiana PE.0018117
Issued Date
Jul 24, 1979
Expiration Date
Mar 31, 2014
Category
Civil Engineer
Type
Agricultural and Biological Engineer
Address
Address
244 Highway 3266, Thibodaux, LA 70301
Professional information
Primary Extractor Apparatus For Sugar Cane Harvester
US Patent:
5092110, Mar 3, 1992
Filed:
Mar 28, 1991
Appl. No.:
7/676889
Inventors:
Karl R. Dommert - Thibodaux LA
John Scrivner - Thibodaux LA
John Scrivner - Thibodaux LA
Assignee:
Cameco Industries, Inc. - Thibodaux LA
International Classification:
A01D 4510
US Classification:
56 128
Abstract:
A sugar cane harvester primary extractor apparatus is provided for separating cane crop leafy trash material from a harvested stream of conveyed cut billets. The apparatus is used with chopper cane harvesters wherein cane billets are fed continuously into a cleaning chamber in the form of a hollow housing interior of the extractor and a powered extractor fan directed air and leafy trash exiting the cleaning chamber upwardly. Air intakes are in the form of a plurality of side air intake openings each having correspondingly placed vertically extended louver plates angled inwardly of the housing outer wall, each of the side openings and louver plates being spaced along the housing wall beginning at a first position adjacent the cane billet feed inlet and extending rearwardly therefrom toward the middle of the extractor housing.