Patent ID: 6397573
Filing Date: 2002-06-04
Classification: A01D

Abstract:
A reel bat assembly comprising a tubular reel bat that is elongated along a longitudinal axis, a plurality of supports along its length on which bearings are mounted, the reel bat being made in tubular bat sections of a selected length, two bat sections being positioned adjacent end to end at a support, and a junction shaft for supporting ends of the two adjacent tubular bat sections comprising the junction shaft having two end portions sized to fit within inside diameters of the respective tubular bat sections, and aligning openings through the tubular bat sections and the end portions of the junction shaft for receiving fasteners so that walls of the tubular bat sections can be tightened down onto the end portions of the shaft, respectively, and said junction shaft having a bearing journal of reduced cross sectional size from the end portions and positionable between adjacent tubular bat sections joined by the junction shaft, the reduced cross sectional size bearing journal forming shoulders on opposite sides of the bearing journal.