Patent ID: 6814322
Filing Date: 2004-11-09
Classification: A01F

Abstract:
An ensilage processing attachment for uniformly loosening and removing an uncompacted and free flowing ensilage product from a vertical face of a compacted ensilage mass, with minimal ensilage size reduction, when the attachment is mounted to a powered vehicle equipped with a power source for powering the attachment, the attachment consisting essentially of;(a) a supportive frame equipped with mounting means for mounting the frame to the powered vehicle; (b) a rotatable drum carried by the frame and equipped with a plurality of substantially flat curved tooth members tangentially projecting outwardly in a substantially curved relationship to a rotational periphery generated by rotationally propelling the drum and curved tooth members circumferentially positioned about the drum so as to transversely remove and dislodge the uncompacted ensilage product from the ensilage mass face and permit the dislodged uncompacted ensilage product to free fall from the vertical face without substantially reducing particle size of the ensilage mass; and (c) powering means for rotationally propelling the drum along the ensilage mass face so as to uniformly loosen and dislodge and cause the free fall of the dislodged uncompacted ensilage from the vertical face.