Patent ID: 9033780
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: A01D,A01F

Abstract:
1. An agricultural harvesting machine with a trailer having a biomass feed system, the biomass feed system comprising: a collection device having an interior cavity with two opposing sides; a conveyor device that propels an airborne flow of the biomass in a predetermined direction along a trajectory within the interior cavity of said collection device; a blanket of pressurized air that supports the biomass within the interior cavity beneath the trajectory, and an airflow tube extending between the two opposing sides and having two fans at opposite ends of the tube that create the blanket of pressurized air, the airflow tube including airflow ports having a plurality of vanes that directs a portion of an airflow sidewardly at an acute angle relative to a rearward direction of the airflow tube, to achieve side by side biomass distribution in the interior cavity.