Patents Assigned to Claas oHG
  • Patent number: 4580398
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for rolling and wrapping a crop bale are described. A baling press including a rolling chamber has an interior circumference lined with rotating conveyor elements. A crop entry port receives cut crops as well as a wrapping material. During a final layer formation of the bale, the crop material is fed to the entry port to roll with the baled crop exiting said entry port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1986
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventors: Dirk Bruer, Karl Moosbrucker
  • Patent number: 4569439
    Abstract: A wrapping of netting is disclosed for a round bale of agricultural blade crops. The use of netting as a wrapping permits the elimination of all additional measures for fastening of the wrapping which have so far been customary and necessary with any other wrapping materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1986
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventors: Theodor Freye, Bernd Hollmann
  • Patent number: 4566380
    Abstract: A round baling press for agricultural stalk products has a pressing chamber limited by a stationary front housing part and a movable rear housing part which is turnable for discharge of a finished bale about a horizontal axis and is provided with a sensing device which senses whether the turning region of the rear housing part is free of bale after its discharge to prevent turning of the rear housing part when the bale is still in its turning region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1986
    Assignee: Claas Ohg
    Inventors: Gerhard Clostermeyer, Werner Muller
  • Patent number: 4565056
    Abstract: A self-propelled harvester thresher has a liftable and lowerable front inclined transporting channel, as considered in a travelling direction, and a cutting table connected therewith and having a rear wall mounted on the transporting channel, wherein a cutter bar, a drawing roller, and a winch are liftably and lowerably connected with said rear wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1986
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventor: Franz Heidjann
  • Patent number: 4563854
    Abstract: A baler for forming round roll bales of agricultural products includes a baling chamber in which a plurality of bale-forming rotatable rolls form a bale which is wrapped with a binding tape supplied into the baling chamber from the tape supply roll positioned outside and above the baling chamber. The baling chamber is formed by two portions of the housing which are hinged away from each other to discharge the formed and wrapped bale from the baling chamber. A pair of tape advancing rollers receive a starting end of the tape from the supply roll and advance it into a gap between two adjacent bale-forming rolls so that the binding tape is taken along by the rotating formed bale in the baling chamber. A counter of the number of revolutions of at least one of the advancing rollers is provided, which causes cutting off a tape portion from the binding tape by a control device after the number of revolutions of the advancing roller has reached an adjusted number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1986
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventors: Gustav Ackermann, Gerhard Clostermeyer, Werner Muller
  • Patent number: 4564025
    Abstract: A self-propelled harvester thresher has a housing, and at least one axial threshing and separating device with a rotatable drum and a casing surrounding the latter, wherein the axial threshing and separating device is turnable between a working position in which it extends transverse to a transporting direction of the harvester thresher, and a transporting position in which it does not exceed permissible street width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1986
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventor: Johannes Dammann
  • Patent number: 4563868
    Abstract: A large baling press has a pressing chamber peripherally limited by driven winding elements which simultaneously form an inlet opening, and a product supply passage which is limited from below by a prong drum unit and from above by a holding down rack, wherein the rack is oscillatingly moveable in a traveling or product flowing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1986
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventor: Gerhard Clostermeyer
  • Patent number: 4528992
    Abstract: A self-propelled harvester thresher with a cleaning device has a carrier vehicle with a grain tank, an axial threshing mechanism releasably connected with the carrier vehicle, a cutting mechanism releasably connected with the carrier vehicle and being wider than the axial thresher mechanism, wherein the cleaning device is connected with the axial threshing mechanism and extends normally to its transporting direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1985
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventor: Franz Heidjann
  • Patent number: 4526181
    Abstract: A self-propelled harvester thresher operating in accordance with an axial threshing principle has an axial threshing and separating mechanism located between a cutting mechanism trough and an inclined conveyor, and an introducing drum for introducing the product cut by the cutting mechanism trough into the axial threshing and separating mechanism and formed as an exchangeable threshing drum corresponding to a product to be threshed, so that a threshing and separating element of the threshing and separating mechanism thus performs only post threshing and separating functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1985
    Assignee: Claas Ohg
    Inventors: Franz Heidjann, Johannes Dammann
  • Patent number: 4499714
    Abstract: Agricultural stalk products are baled in a baling press by winding a product in a pressure chamber to form a round bale, displacing the pressure chamber in cooperation with peripherally limiting transport elements so as to block a further product supply into the pressure chamber and to release a product supply into a storage chamber, whereas the transport elements deflect a product flow and peripherally limit the storage chamber, fixing an outer contour of the round bale in the pressure chamber and opening the latter, displacing the transport elements so that they discharge the bale from the storage chamber, transfer the stored product from the storage chamber to the pressure chamber and guide a new product flow into the pressure chamber, and peripherally closing a bottom of the pressure chamber by the transport elements for forming a next bale in the pressure chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1985
    Assignee: Claas Ohg
    Inventor: Bernd Hollmann
  • Patent number: 4498483
    Abstract: An axial threshing and separating arrangement in a housing includes two threshing drums and two thresh basket-sieve casing units associated therewith, wherein the distance between the axes of rotation of the threshing drums corresponds substantially to the outer diameter of one thresh basket-sieve casing unit, and the units can be arranged over one another and overlap with their ends in the product supply region by substantially the double width of a product supply opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1985
    Assignee: CLAAS OHG
    Inventor: Johannes Dammann
  • Patent number: 4491034
    Abstract: A continuously adjustable hydraulic-mechanical power transmission system has a mechanical part including an input shaft, forward gear and reversing gear controlled respectively by clutches for coupling with the input shaft; a planetary gear set has an annulus acting as a first shaft in continuous engagement with the forward gear and the reversing gear, a cage connected to a second shaft acting as an output of the system, and a sun wheel connected to a third shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1985
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventor: Nils Fredriksen
  • Patent number: 4487005
    Abstract: A drawing roller of a cutting trough of an agricultural machine, particularly a harvester thresher, has a drawing roller body rotatably mounted in a cutting trough, oppositely operating screw plates arranged at outer ends of the roller body, a plurality of controlled drawing fingers arranged on the roller body in a central region thereof, and at least one rigid driving member arranged on the roller body in the central region in addition to the controlled driving fingers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1984
    Assignee: Claas OHG.
    Inventors: Helmut Claas, Heinrich Ostrup
  • Patent number: 4478226
    Abstract: A self-propelled harvester thresher with axial product flow includes a housing having product inlet and product outlet openings, at least one axially extending rotor which forms together with the housing an annular chamber extending between the product inlet opening and the product outlet opening and having a separating zone, an inclined conveyor conveying the product to the product inlet opening, and a product transferring device located between the inclined conveyor and the separating zone and arranged so that it turns the product stream transported by the inclined conveyor, so that the product stream is supplied to the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1984
    Assignee: CLAAS OHG
    Inventor: Franz Tophinke
  • Patent number: 4471602
    Abstract: A self-propelled sugar cane harvester has a plurality of cutting rollers cooperating with each other in pairs to cut cane sticks. The cutting rollers are rotatably supported in opposite walls of the harvester housing. Each roller has two opposite flanges at its ends, which are releasably connected to the flanges rotatably supported in the walls of the housing. Disassembling of each individual roller is achieved by merely releasing the flanges of the roller from the flanges supported in the housing walls, whereby the roller can be easily pulled out from the housing for repair or any other operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1984
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventor: Gunter Leigers
  • Patent number: 4470244
    Abstract: A feeding device of a sugar cane harvester includes a pair of rotary cane dividers spaced from each other. The feeding device is provided with a mechanism for adjusting the distance between two spaced cane dividers. This mechanism is operated from an operator stand of the harvester and includes a hydraulic piston-cylinder unit, the piston of which is connected to one of the cane dividers and the cylinder of which is connected to the harvester frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1984
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventor: G/u/ nter Leigers
  • Patent number: 4446682
    Abstract: An agricultural attachment for harvesting agricultural products arranged in rows, such as corn and the like, has a frame, a plurality of product drawing elements, and a plurality of hingedly mounted dividing elements associated with the product drawing elements so as to form together with the latter product drawing passages, wherein each of the drawing elements have two parts which are articulately connected with one another so that they are pivotable relative to one another to assume a position in which they have a tipped roof shape and are fixable in this position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1984
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Jennen, Gerd Sprugel
  • Patent number: 4443999
    Abstract: A cutting device of a sugar cane harvester, which includes a pair of rotary rollers each provided with elongated cutting straps having a number of blades and extended parallel to the axes of the respective rollers. Each roller is formed with an elongated supporting strip and a number of supporting projections spaced from the strip so as to form a plurality of grooves each receiving individual blades of the cutting strap and a clamping member. The blade and the clamping member are clamped between the side walls of the groove by a bolt extending through the clamping member into the body of the roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1984
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventor: Gunter Leigers
  • Patent number: 4440416
    Abstract: A motorless harvester thresher is coupled with a multi-purpose vehicle by means of a coupling rod and a coupling linkage extended between the vehicle and the thresher and pivotally mounted to a lateral side of the vehicle and to a laterial side of the thresher.A driven front axle of the vehicle supporting the front wheels thereof coupled with a non-steerable front axle of the front wheels of the harvester thresher by means of the coupling rod connected to a clutch which can be engaged to or disengaged from the coupling rod so as to ensure the axial alignment of front axes of the vehicle and the machine so as to provide for a stable lateral position of the thresher relative to the vehicle in the traveling movement thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1984
    Assignee: Claas Ohg
    Inventors: Helmut Claas, Nils Frederiksen
  • Patent number: 4427090
    Abstract: A multiple-purpose agricultural machine, particularly a tractor, has a chassis, supporting elements associated with the chassis, a driver's cabin movable relative to the chassis between at least two working positions spaced from one another and detachably mounted on the supporting elements so that it can be detached from the supporting elements for movement between the working positions, and mounting elements for detachably mounting the driver's cabin on the supporting elements. The supporting elements may be formed as two receiving elements fixedly mounted on the machine and arranged to be alternately coupled with the driver's cabin, or has elements provided on an implement which is connected with the tractor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1984
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventors: Nils Fredriksen, Heinrich Wecker