Corn cutting machine

Claim 1

IN A CORN CUTTING MACHINE, THE COMBINATION COMPRISING AN ELONGATED FRAME, CUTTING MEANS DISPOSED AT EACH OF THE OPPOSITE ENDS OF SAID FRAME, SAID CUTTING MEANS HAVING PARALLEL CUTTING AXES EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY OF SAID FRAME IN TRANSVERSELY SPACED RELATION, EACH OF SAID CUTTING MEANS COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF CUTTING BLADES ARRANGED CIRCUMFERENTIALLY ABOUT THE ASSOCIATED CUTTING AXIS, A PAIR OF TRANSVERSELY SPACED EAR GUIDING AND CENTRALIZING MEANS CARRIED BY SAID FRAME, EACH GUIDING MEANS BEING ASSOCIATED WITH ONE OF SAID CUTTING MEANS AND HAVING AN EAR GUIDING AND CENTRALIZING AXIS LONGITUDINALLY ALIGNED WITH THE AXIS OF THE ASSOCIATED CUTTING MEANS, A PAIR OF PARALLEL PUSHER RODS, EACH PUSHER ROD BEING ASSOCIATED WITH ONE OF SAID GUIDING MEANS AND HAVING AN EAR ENGAGING END, MEANS SEPARATELY MOUNTING EACH OF SAID PUSHER RODS ON SAID FRAME FOR LONGITUDINAL TRANSLATIONAL MOVEMENT AXIALLY THROUGH THE ASSOCIATED GUIDING MEANS FROM AN EAR RECEIVING POSITION WHEREIN SAID EAR ENGAGING PUSHER ROD END IS DISPOSED IN SPACED RELATION WITH RESPECT TO THE ASSOCIATED CUTTING MEANS A DISTANCE SUFFICIENT TO PERMIT AN EAR OF CORN TO BE POSITIONED IN THE ASSOCIATED GUIDING MEANS BETWEEN SAID PUSHER ROD END AND THE ASSOCIATED CUTTING MEANS TO AN EAR DISCHARGING POSITION WHEREIN SAID EAR ENGAGING PUSHER ROD END IS OPERABLE TO MOVE AN EAR ENGAGED THEREBY OUTWARDLY OF THE ASSOCIATED GUIDING MEANS AND THROUGH THE ASSOCIATED CUTTING MEANS, AND POWER OPERATED MEANS CARRIED BY SAID FRAME OPERATIVELY CONNECTED WITH BOTH OF SAID PUSHER RODS FOR MOVING ONE OF SAID PUSHER RODS THROUGH A CYCLE OF MOVEMENT FROM SAID EAR RECEIVING POSITION TO SAID EAR DISCHARGING POSITION AT A RELATIVELY SLOW SPEED SO AS TO FEED AN EAR THROUGH THE ASSOCIATED CUTTING MEANS AND THEN FROM SAID EAR DISCHARGING POSITION TO SAID EAR RECEIVING POSITION AT A RELATIVELY HIGH SPEED SO AS TO RECEIVE ANOTHER EAR AND FOR MOVING THE OTHER OF SAID PUSHER RODS THROUGH AN IDENTICAL CYCLE OF MOVEMENT 180* OUT OF PHASE WITH THE CYCLE OF MOVEMENT OF SAID ONE PUSHER ROD.