US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on May 5 for "Primary extractor of a sugarcane harvester including variable angle guide vanes" (Louisiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,095, issued on May 5, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Primary extractor of a sugarcane harvester including variable angle guide vanes" was invented by Blain J. Cazenave (Vacherie, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sugarcane harvester configured to cut sugarcane into a sugarcane mat having crop debris and billets. The harvester includes an extractor configured to receive the sugarcane mat at an inlet and to discharge crop debris from the sugarcane mat at an outlet. An extractor located between the inlet and the outlet includes an extractor fan having fan blades and a vane assembly including a plurality of guide vanes, wh...