Patent ID: 7861504

Claim:
A cotton harvester row unit including picker spindle bar structure having a spindle bar with a central axis and first and second sets of vertically spaced elongated spindles with base portions movable through a doffing zone, the sets of spindles being offset from each other, and a doffer column with first and second sets of vertically offset doffer pads mounted for rotation about a single doffer axis adjacent the first and second sets of vertically spaced spindles, respectively, wherein the base portions of the first set of spindles are offset in closer relationship to the doffer axis than the base portions of the second set of spindles in the doffing zone; and wherein the doffer pads of the second set of doffer pads have a maximum diameter, and the first set of doffer pads have a maximum diameter less than the maximum diameter of the doffer pads of the second set of doffer pads so the doffer pads of both the first and second sets of doffer pads project substantially the entire length of the spindles to the base portions of the respective first and second sets of spindles.