Patent ID: 9668423
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: A01D,B60P,B65G

Claim:
1. A crop cart for receiving, transporting and unloading a harvested crop, comprising: a support frame having a front end, a rear end and a plurality of wheels rotatably attached to said support frame for movably supporting said support frame above a ground surface; a hopper having a lower floor, a floor conveyor movably positioned with respect to said lower floor, a plurality of sidewalls extending upwardly from said lower floor, an unloading door movably connected to an unloading end of said hopper, and an upper opening defined by an upper edge of said plurality of sidewalls for receiving a field crop, wherein said hopper is pivotally connected to said support frame; a first actuator connected between said support frame and said hopper, wherein said first actuator is adapted to lift said unloading end of said hopper from a loading position into an unloading position, wherein said loading position for said hopper is for receiving the field crop into the hopper and said unloading position for said hopper is for unloading the field crop from said hopper; and an unloading conveyor having opposite inner and outer edges, the unloading conveyor attached at said inner edge; to said unloading end of said hopper, wherein said unloading conveyor is adapted to receive and discharge a field crop from said hopper, wherein said unloading conveyor is downwardly angled from said inner edge to said outer edge of said unloading conveyor when said hopper is in said loading position, and wherein said unloading conveyor is substantially horizontal from said inner edge to said outer edge of said unloading conveyor when said hopper is in said unloading position.