US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on Jan. 28 for "Air attachment on harvester elevator for increased cleaning" (Louisiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,420, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Air attachment on harvester elevator for increased cleaning" was invented by Blain J. Cazenave (Vacherie, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning and debris management system that separates debris from billet leaf bundles in a harvester. The system includes an elevator and one or more air sources. The elevator includes first and second sections that meet at transition points. The air sources include upward and lateral sources located at the transition points to blow air through the bundles as they move across the transition points from the first to the sec...