Method and apparatus for harvesting and bundling plants
CA 2101544 A1 · Owner: Wilstrand, Ragnar · Inventors: Wilstrand, Mats; Wilstrand, Ragnar
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The invention relates to a method for harvesting and bundling plants, preferably energy forest plants and the like planted in rows, whereby plants, where appropriate from one or several planting rows, in a harvesting assembly during, the advancement of the assembly across the ground are, continuously gripped by a feeding apparatus and are cut off and, after having been cut off, are conveyed by the feeding apparatus, for further treatment or storing whereby the cut-, off plants are broken at a position between their ends and folded around the point of breaking, in a direction towards the subsequent plants, for forming a continuous bead of folded plants.
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- Filed February 10, 1992. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended February 10, 2012.
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