(under subclass 79) Subject matter including a moving rack or a similar element which separates the grain and moves the straw, chaff and other material out the back of the thresher.
(1) Note. The device tosses and tumbles the straw and chaff and propels it to the rear. This aggressive motion separates threshed grain from the straw and chaff. The straw travels the full length of the rack and is discharged at the rear. The device consists of section of bars which are driven by means which gives an alternate lifting and dropping motion as the straw is "walked" toward the rear.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
99, Foods and Beverages: Apparatus,
605+, for perforated sifters in a grain huller.
209, Classifying, Separating, and Assorting Solids,
247, and 257 for devices which include conveyors associated with sifting means and delivering material to the latter; subclasses 277, 278 for reciprocating agitators; subclass 282 for stationary sifters with reciprocating agitators, subclasses 325, 326, 329 for flat reciprocating sifters having both horizontal and vertical movements and also having circular or orbital motion; subclass 396 for sifting passages of elongated slot form which are formed by bars or rods and which have relative movement during the sifting operation.
