Sod scrap collection apparatus and method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 12036908
APP PUB NO 20230256883A1
SERIAL NO

17673327

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A sod scrap collection apparatus is disclosed that enables pickup and collection of scraps of sod that have been discarded on the ground. The apparatus is pulled by a tractor and includes a pickup head followed by a dump bed. A pickup head conveyor moves pickup teeth along and over the ground at a particular distance in order to scrape up sod scraps and discard them into the dump bed where they are collected. A dump bed conveyor of the dump bed, which runs in the opposite direction as the pickup head conveyor, moves parallel spaced sweeping bars along a top of the sod scraps residing in the dump bed at an upward angle from front to back, so that the dump bed fills with the sod scraps efficiently from front to back.

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FIRST PRODUCTS INCP O BOX 1425 TIFTON GA 31793

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Jones, Donald C Tifton, US 6 60
McLeod, Alan L Sycamore, US 1 0

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