Patent ID: 8205681
Filing Date: 2012-06-26
Classification: A01G

Abstract:
1. A core processor for turf aeration cores, which comprises: (a) a frame supported for movement over the ground; (b) a powered rotary brush carried on the frame for picking up aeration cores from the ground; (c) a powered rotary pulverizer carried on the frame with the pulverizer rotating at a faster rotational speed than the brush for receiving aeration cores from the brush, for pulverizing such cores into particles, and for throwing substantially all the core particles from a top portion of the rotary pulverizer in a rearward direction relative to the frame, and wherein the rotary pulverizer rotates about a horizontal axis of rotation that is forward of a horizontal axis of rotation about which the brush rotates when the frame is on level ground and when taken with respect to a forward direction of motion of the frame; and (d) a rear discharge opening located on the frame for receiving substantially all the core particles from the pulverizer and for discharging the core particles in a rearward direction from the frame.