Patent ID: 9456547
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: A01D

Claim Text:
1. A sugarcane cleaning arrangement for attachment to a sugarcane harvester, the sugarcane harvester including a cleaning chamber, a feed train to move a feed stream of cane billets and other material into the cleaning chamber, and a fan rotating about a rotation axis to create an air flow within the cleaning chamber to at least partly separate the cane billets from the other material, the sugarcane cleaning arrangement comprising: a deflector body, with at least one deflection surface of the deflector body at least partly facing the feed stream, the deflector body being fixed to the sugarcane cleaning arrangement such that the at least one deflection surface extends at least partly within the cleaning chamber; wherein, as the feed train moves the feed stream to the cleaning chamber, the at least one deflection surface deflects at least a portion of the feed stream within the cleaning chamber; wherein the deflection surface includes a substantially planar surface extending in a plane that crosses the cleaning chamber and intersects the rotation axis.