Patents Assigned to Claas oHG
  • Patent number: 4741349
    Abstract: A self-propelled harvester thresher, comprising a device for a front product supply, and separating device arranged downstream of product supply device, the separating device extending in a longitudinal direction and operating in accordance with the principle of axial flow, the separating device including at least one rotor and a sieve housing surrounding the rotor and provided with inlet and outlet openings, the housing having a plurality of guiding members arranged parallel to one another and extending in a helical manner, the guiding members extending in a running direction and having front ends as considered in the running direction, the guiding members including at least two groups of guiding members, the front ends of the guiding members of one of the groups of guiding members being offset from the front ends of the other of the groups of the guiding members as considered in the running direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1988
    Assignee: Claas Ohg
    Inventors: Heinrich Roderfeld, Johannes Dammann
  • Patent number: 4739774
    Abstract: A self-propelling harvester thresher includes a cutting device and a grain separating device positioned before the machine frame of the thresher and liftable and lowerable. Two transport units receiving a grain-straw chaff mixture from the separating device and transporting the same to a container on the machine frame are provided. Each transport unit is a screw conveyor having shovels at the feeding end and a sieve portion at the discharge end. Both transport units are positioned between the drive wheels of the thresher are parallel to each other and extend transversely of the grain separating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1988
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventor: Franz Heidjann
  • Patent number: 4736753
    Abstract: In a harvester thresher an arrangement for uniform distribution of agricultural product on a reciprocating transporting and cleaning organs of a sieve conveyor includes an upper sieve of a sieve box which is formed so that it has a transporting component toward a side changeable in its value in dependence upon an inclined position of the harvester thresher during threshing on an inclined surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1988
    Assignee: CLAAS OHG
    Inventors: Franz Glaubitz, Gunter Eis, Werner Fromme
  • Patent number: 4733672
    Abstract: A separating and cleaning arrangement for a self-propelled harvester thresher, comprises a stationary housing extending in a traveling direction and provided with an inlet and outlet opening, and a rotor driveably supported in the housing and having a casing and a shaft surrounded by the casing and having two ends, and elements for supporting the rotor in the housing and including a bearing arranged on each of the ends of the shaft, a sleeve having a spherical outer surface and embracing the bearing which is arranged on one of the ends of the shaft being a front end as considered in a traveling direction, and a holder arranged so that sleeve is supported in the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1988
    Assignee: Claas Ohg
    Inventor: Franz Tophinke
  • Patent number: 4728046
    Abstract: An agricultural machine for producing a storable power fodder of grain and stalk product comprises a device for cutting a grain containing stalk product, a device for threshing the cut product, a device for separating during the threshing a part composed of stalk and leaf fraction, a device for throwing the separated part onto a field, and a device for comminuting a remaining part composed of grains and short straw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1988
    Assignee: Claas Ohg
    Inventors: Dirk Bruer, Hermann Garbers, Franz Heidjann
  • Patent number: 4703605
    Abstract: Substantially round bales of agricultural products are formed so that they have a bale core composed of agricultural products, and a wrapping including a shape-retaining wrapping web material completely surrounding the circumference of the bale core, and a water-impermeable wrapping web material extending over at least a portion of the circumference of the bale core and protecting the same from rains and/or soil moisture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1987
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventor: Gustav Ackermann
  • Patent number: 4700717
    Abstract: A self-propelled harvester thresher has a threshing mechanism operating in accordance with a tangential product flow and having a threshing drum and a threshing basket, a separating device operating in accordance with the axial product flow and having at least one separating rotor and a housing, and a transferring drum located between the threshing mechanism and the separating device and having an axis of rotation which is located above the axis of rotation of the threshing drum and above the separating rotor in its receiving region, wherein the transferring drum is at least partially surrounded by a guiding member which corresponds to an outer circular surface of the drum and is provided with guiding skids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1987
    Assignee: Claas Ohg
    Inventors: Heinrich Roderfeld, Johannes Dammann
  • Patent number: 4693259
    Abstract: A self-propelled harvester thresher has a threshing and separating mechanism, a flat sieve device, and a sieve drum for the straw-chaff-grain mixture located between the threshing and separating mechanism and the flat sieve device, wherein the sieve drum is located above the flat sieve device and has a feeding opening and an outlet opening with a screw transporting the product from the feeding opening to the outlet opening, and the thresher is provided with a returning member located immediately before the outlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1987
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventors: Theodor Freye, Franz Heidjann
  • Patent number: 4686812
    Abstract: In a rotational sphere press for agricultural grain stem products, the wrapping area of which is limited by rotating conveyor rollers, and which has a pre-chamber, a first conveyor mechanism is provided for tranporting the harvested product into the pre-chamber and a second conveyor mechanism is provided for transporting the harvested product from the pre-chamber through a feed hold between two neighboring conveyor rollers into the wrapping area. The second conveyor mechanism has a conveyor drum which is axially parallel to the conveyor rollers and which can be moved perpendicular to an opposite-positioned counterbearing by overcoming the reset force of a reset element within a pre-given motional path. The conveyor drum has driving plate pins which are in the rear area facing the feed hole and neighboring the exteral surface of the drum. They project outwardly, perpendicular to the external surface of the drum in the front and lower area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1987
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventors: Dirk Bruer, Karl-Heinz Tooten, Theo Freye
  • Patent number: 4665685
    Abstract: A cutting trough unit for a self-propelled agricultural machine comprises a cutting trough; cutting means arranged flexibly relative to the cutting trough so as to follow a ground contour within a certain limit a plurality of sliding skids are articulately connected with the cutting trough and a connection for articulately connecting the sliding skids with the cutting trough and including a lower supporting arm and an upper supporting arm extending in a traveling direction, the lower supporting arm having a first end articulately connected with the cutting trough and a second end connected with the sliding skid, the upper supporting arm having a first end articulately connected with the cutting trough and a second end displaceably articulately connected with the lower supporting arm, the supporting arms and the sliding skids being fixedly connected with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1987
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventor: Karl Rupprecht
  • Patent number: 4662275
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a spherical baling press with press and conveyer cylinders bordering the pressing area on the periphery with room left for a product entry slot. When viewed in the rotational direction of the bales, press cylinders located in front of the entry slot are gradually positioned closer to the periphery resulting in a spiral shape of the pressing area in front of the entry slot. As a result, the bale is in part compressed to a higher degree which has a particularly beneficial consequence if the product being baled consists of brittle straw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1987
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventor: Werner Tertilt
  • Patent number: 4656812
    Abstract: A method of producing bales of agricultural products includes wrapping a bale with a wrapping material, discharging the fully wrapped bale from the press, and forming a new bale, with an intermediate storage of the product in the press retained as short as possible by overlapping of some of the method steps, so that the time required from the beginning of wrapping of a finished bale to the beginning of forming a new bale is very short.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1987
    Assignee: Claas Ohg
    Inventors: Winfried Busse, Theodor Freye, Karl H. Tooten, Gerhard Clostermeyer
  • Patent number: 4653515
    Abstract: A self-propelled harvester thresher has a threshing mechanism operating in accordance with a radial flow, a separating mechanism operating in accordance with an axial flow, and a transfer drum located between the threshing mechanism and the separating mechanism and subdividing the threshed product stream so that it is supplied in two partial streams at both sides of the axis of rotation of the separating rotor and a supporting member of the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1987
    Assignee: Claas Ohg
    Inventor: Franz Tophinke
  • Patent number: 4640085
    Abstract: A drawing channel for a harvester thresher is provided for increasing its torsion strength, with a plurality of reinforcing frames which are distributed over the length of the channel and surround its cross-section and also with additional reinforcing sheets associated with lateral walls of the channel in the region of its turning axle so as to form hollow double walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1987
    Assignee: Claas Ohg
    Inventor: Karl Rupprecht
  • Patent number: 4635543
    Abstract: A large baling press for forming round bales has a pressing chamber which peripherally is limited by winding elements driven via cranks connected by connecting members, and mass compensating elements are connected with driving elements for the connecting members and cranks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1987
    Assignee: Claas Ohg
    Inventors: Gerhard Clostermeyer, Werner Konekamp, Karlheinz Tooten
  • Patent number: 4606355
    Abstract: A harvester thresher has an axial threshing and separating arrangement with two rotatable threshing drums and two casing units surrounding the threshing drums and having an upper product supply opening and a lower supply opening, a radial threshing mechanism located upstream of the axial threshing and separating arrangement as considered in a product flow direction, and a guiding element subdivided into an upper part which is bent upwardly to supply a product threshed by the radial threshing mechanism toward the upper product supply opening of the axial threshing and separating arrangement and a lower part which is bent downwardly to supply the product threshed by the radial threshing mechanism toward the lower product supply opening of the axial threshing and separating arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1986
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventor: Johannes Dammann
  • Patent number: 4604848
    Abstract: A large baling press has a pressing chamber for forming bales, a device for supplying a web material for wrapping the bales, and a brake which acts on the wrapping material supply device so that in the beginning of wrapping the braking force is smaller than during the subsequent complete wrapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1986
    Assignee: Claas Ohg
    Inventor: Gerhard Clostermeyer
  • Patent number: 4599844
    Abstract: A baling press for agricultural products has a pressing chamber limited by a plurality of winding rollers, and a device for wrapping a finished bale with a wrapping material, which is provied for its threading into the pressing chamber with guiding elements between wrapping material drawing rollers and the pressing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1986
    Assignee: Claas Ohg
    Inventors: Gerhard Clostermeyer, Werner Muller
  • Patent number: 4598718
    Abstract: In a harvester thresher an arrangement for uniform distribution of agricultural product on a reciprocating transporting and cleaning organs of a sieve conveyor includes an upper sieve of a sieve box which is formed so that it has a transporting component toward a side changeable in its value in dependence upon an inclined position of the harvester thresher during threshing on an inclined surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1986
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventors: Franz Glaubitz, Gunter Eis, Werner Fromme
  • Patent number: 4597241
    Abstract: A large baling press for agricultural products has a plurality of driven winding elements, a housing, a web roller with supply of web material to wrap finished bales, a container for receiving the web rollers so that the web roller is in contact with the container in at least two points, and a braking element for braking the web roller so that with decreasing diameter of the web roller it is pressed with increasing pressing force, wherein the braking element is formed as a braking rod abutting against the web roller, and a spring is provided for urging of the braking rod against the web roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1986
    Assignee: CLAAS OHG
    Inventor: Gerhard Clostermeyer