ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,096, issued on May 5.
"Whole-stalk or sectioning type combined sugarcane harvester" was invented by Yecai Chen (Laibing, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A whole-stalk or sectioning type combined sugarcane harvester, including: a frame, a sugarcane root grinding cutter (48), a plurality of rollers (59) for scraping sugarcane leaves, peeling sugarcane peels and conveying sugarcane stalks by using circular plates arranged at intervals, sugarcane pressing cover plates (82), sugarcane leaf and peel blocking barriers (75), a sugarcane stalk guide plate (78), rollover safety devices, anti-rollover regulators, and a whole-stalk sugarcane ...