Patents Assigned to Krone GmbH
  • Patent number: 6638159
    Abstract: A harvesting machine, especially a self-propelled pick-up chopper for picking up and chopping corn, wilted grass, green feed and similar harvested produce, including an ejection elbow arranged after pulling in and chopping devices for transferring harvested produce to a loading space of an accompanying vehicle. In order to free the operator of the harvesting machine from the burden of the cumbersome positioning work after each change in the direction of travel, the ejection elbow can be swiveled by a motor controlled by a control device from a first operating position into a second operating position which corresponds to the first operating position of the ejection elbow mirrored in the vertical median plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH
    Inventors: Bernard Krone, Josef Horstmann, Bernhard Schniederbruns
  • Patent number: 6607204
    Abstract: A self-propelled harvesting machine, especially a pick-up chopper, for picking up and chopping harvested material, such as corn, green crops, etc., including a machine frame, a horizontally situated floating axle arranged parallel to a direction of travel of the machine, and a rear axle constructed as a steerable, rigid axle and supported on the machine frame so that it can be swivelled about the floating axle. The rear axle includes an axle body supported with shock absorption on the machine frame so that it can move up and down relative to the machine frame. The machine also includes a swiveling axle arranged parallel to the floating axle, a transverse swinging fork overlapping the axle body and hinged to the machine frame about the swiveling axle with the axle body being mounted on the transverse swinging fork, a spring element and a damping element. The transverse swinging fork is supported at a free end on the machine frame by the spring element and the damping element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH
    Inventors: Bernard Krone, Karl-Heinz Radke
  • Patent number: 6594983
    Abstract: A cutting device for agricultural harvesting machines, such as, for instance, self-loading forage boxes or baling presses with a conveyor channel, in which a number of cutting blades mounted in rotatable fashion, arranged at least in a single row and protruding into the conveyor channel in a cutting position interact with a driven rotating conveyor mechanism equipped with conveying prongs and aligned along a horizontal axis crosswise to the travel and work direction for the purpose of cutting stalk products. A support mechanism provides elastic support to each individual cutting blade in the cutting position, and a control device releases the support mechanism, thereby allowing all or a number of cutting blades to rotate into a non-cutting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH
    Inventors: Bernard Krone, Christian Steglich, Thomas Wernsmann
  • Patent number: 6594979
    Abstract: A self-propelled harvesting machine has an attachment for picking up cut crop or for harvesting stalked crop and a processing device for chopping the crop. A curved spout is arranged downstream of the processing device for picking up the crop at a pick-up location and transferring it to a drop location on a transport vehicle. A control device adjusts an operating speed of the drive motor to idle speed, nominal speed, and a speed range below the nominal speed. The drive motor, when the attachment has a great working width and the distance between pick-up location and drop location of the curved spout has a great length, is operated at nominal speed and, when the attachment has a minimal working width and the distance between pick-up location and drop location of the curved spout has a minimal length, is operated at a reduced speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH
    Inventors: Bernard Krone, Josef Horstmann
  • Patent number: 6550231
    Abstract: A harvesting machine such as a self-propelled pick-up chopper including a feeder housing having supplying elements and which can be transferred from a swiveled-in operating position about an axle into a swiveled-up maintenance position. In order to be able to transfer the feeder housing rapidly into the swiveled-up maintenance position, the feeder housing can be swung out of the way forward towards the ground in the driving direction about an essentially horizontal axle aligned transversely to the traveling direction of the machine. The supplying elements of the feeder housing can be driven over a drive shaft having a first portion which can be swiveled in the same direction with the feeder housing and a second portion different than the first portion which can be expanded and contracted telescope-like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH
    Inventors: Bernard Krone, Karl-Heinz Radke, Thomas Strobel, Dieter Berth
  • Publication number: 20030066276
    Abstract: A mowing machine connectable to a lifting device arranged at the rear of an agricultural support vehicle has a mowing device with several rotary cutting members guided in a working position laterally on the support vehicle. A support beam has a first end receiving the mowing device and a second end with a three-point hitch with connecting locations connectable to upper and lower rods of the lifting device. A first connecting location is provided on the support beam on a side of the three-point hitch remote from the mowing device. The first connecting location is connected to the three-point hitch such that when the mowing device hits an obstacle while moving in a traveling and working direction, a pivot movement of the mowing device in a direction counter to the traveling and working direction and a lifting movement of the leading area of the mowing device are initiated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2002
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Applicant: Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH
    Inventors: Bernard Krone, Andreas Afting
  • Patent number: 6539693
    Abstract: Harvesting machine for picking up and chopping corn, wilted grass, green feed and similar harvested material including a feeding device, a chopping device arranged after the feeding device and a conditioning device for conditioning the harvested material arranged after the chopping device. The conditioning device optionally engages a conveying duct. Mounting and dismantling of the conditioning device is simplified because it is connected on one side to a duct pivotable about an essentially horizontal swiveling axis and on the other side rigidly but detachably to a rigid duct. Preferably, the swiveling axis is situated below the pivotable duct such that the swiveling motion of the pivotable duct is directed downward against the traveling direction of the harvesting machine to thereby enable removal of the conditioning device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH
    Inventors: Bernard Krone, Dieter Berth, Thomas Strobel, Karl-Heinz Radke
  • Patent number: 6510679
    Abstract: A harvesting machine, especially a self-propelled pick-up chopper for picking up and chopping corn, wilted grass, green feed and similar harvested material includes a feeding housing, which is disposed ahead of a chopping device and accommodates feeding rollers, which can be driven. In order to have created a harvesting machine, which can be adapted to different use conditions, provisions are made so that more than two pairs of feeding rollers are provided, which are disposed consecutively in the feed-conveying direction and the upper rollers of which in each case can be driven over a common driving mechanism the common driving mechanism for adjusting the height of the upper rollers, having at least one driving element, which passes through the feeding housing and the position of which can be changed, and this driving element and the upper rollers being disposed so that they can be shifted by sliding in each case in guides at the side of the feeding housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH
    Inventors: Bernard Krone, Thomas Strobel
  • Patent number: 6508050
    Abstract: A device (1) for mowing agricultural, stalk-like material and forming a windrow from the mown stalk-like material, which is to be deposited next to the device, the device having a mowing unit (10), a preparer (11) and a transverse conveyor (12), the transverse conveyor (12) comprising a spiral conveyor (13) and a casing (23) surrounding the spiral conveyor (12) at least regionally and the end region of the transverse conveyor (12), lying in the conveying direction of the spiral conveyor, forming a free ejection end (37), is constructed so that the spiral conveyor (13) is undergrasped in a lower region (32) at a little distance, trough-like, by the casing (23) and expanded in hood-shaped fashion in an upper region (33) of the casing (23) opposite the radial extent of the spiral conveyor (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH
    Inventors: Bernard Krone, Josef Horstmann
  • Publication number: 20030010004
    Abstract: A self-propelled harvesting machine has an attachment for picking up cut crop or for harvesting stalked crop and a processing device for chopping the crop. A curved spout is arranged downstream of the processing device for picking up the crop at a pick-up location and transferring it to a drop location on a transport vehicle. A control device adjusts an operating speed of the drive motor to idle speed, nominal speed, and a speed range below the nominal speed. The drive motor, when the attachment has a great working width and the distance between pick-up location and drop location of the curved spout has a great length, is operated at nominal speed and, when the attachment has a minimal working width and the distance between pick-up location and drop location of the curved spout has a minimal length, is operated at a reduced speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Applicant: Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH
    Inventors: Bernard Krone, Josef Horstmann
  • Publication number: 20020170723
    Abstract: An implement combination has a self-propelled support vehicle moveable in a travel and working direction. At least one front-mounted implement is connected to a front end of the self-propelled support vehicle in the travel and working direction. At least one side-mounted implement is connected to a lateral side of the self-propelled support vehicle. A raising device transfers the front-mounted and side-mounted implements from a working and operating position near the ground into a partially raised head land position or into a completely raised transport position. The self-propelled support vehicle has a control and switching device. The front-mounted and side-mounted implements are coupled to the control and switching device such that a command for reverse travel of the control and switching device causes a mandatory raising of the front-mounted and side-mounted implements at least into the partially raised head land position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2002
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Applicant: Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH
    Inventors: Bernard Krone, Martin Egbers
  • Publication number: 20020144494
    Abstract: A harvesting machine for harvesting corn and similar crops on stalks has at least one circulating endless conveyor for engaging a crop, wherein the endless conveyor forms a crop feed area for feeding the crop to an inlet opening of a processing device for further processing the crop. The endless conveyor has a lower cutting plane for the crop with outwardly extending conveying and guiding elements and at least one cutting blade arranged below the conveying and guiding elements. The cutting blade has a stepped configuration and, viewed in a running direction of the conveying and guiding elements, has cutting segments. Each cutting segment has a cutting edge and extends at a slant outwardly relative to a circulating path of the conveying and guiding elements. The cutting blade has cutting segment steps positioned between two neighboring ones of the cutting segments, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2002
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Applicant: Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH
    Inventors: Bernard Krone, Josef Horstmann, Bernward Overmeyer, Alfons Keller
  • Patent number: 6425234
    Abstract: A pick-up baler for agricultural produce with a compression piston 9 and a rotary conveyor, which rotates about an axis of rotation 18, comprises rakes 21, 22, which have axes 23 extending approximately parallel to the axis of rotation 18 of the rotor, convey the harvested crop through a supply channel 13, can be swiveled about their rake axes 18 under the control of curves and of which at least one acts as a conveying rake 21, the swiveling of at least one further rake, which functions as a supply rake 22, being controllable as a function of the degree of filling of the supply channel 13 in such a manner that, when a specified degree of filling of the supply channel 13 is reached, the harvested crop, collected there, is conveyed over a baling channel inlet opening 12 into a baling channel 11. The supply rake 22 is guided in a curved path 39, which can be moved from a conveying position into a supplying position, whereas the conveying rakes 21 are guided in an immovable curved path 34.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2002
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH
    Inventors: Bernard Krone, Otger Weddeling, Christian Steglich, Thomas Wernsmann
  • Patent number: 6416339
    Abstract: A communication cabling system wherein elongate communication distribution assemblies (CDAs) are joined serially together by connector units at opposite ends thereof. The interconnected CDAs include access ports or openings into which a tap unit may be inserted and connected to a circuit which is accessible through the access port. Each CDA can be adapted to carry a selected number of circuits wherein each connector unit at an opposite end of a CDA includes a block-like shielded housing having a predetermined number of mounting sockets on a back end thereof. A plurality of modular cable assemblies are provided which have plugs that plug into a respective one of the mounting sockets of the shielded housing so as to assemble a CDA. This system provides for the ready construction, installation and reconfiguration of the communication cabling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignees: Haworth, Inc., Krone GmbH
    Inventors: Richard Herbert Snow, Timothy James Pickles, Ross S. Johnson, Ralph Reddig, David E. Emery
  • Patent number: 6406323
    Abstract: A method of positioning wires in the slot (18) of a bifurcated insulation displacement contact (10). The wires are positioned in the slot alternatively disposed with respect to the side-to-side direction (“A”) of the slot. As between the or each successive pair of wires in the slot, the angle made between the wires of the pair is greater than that made by one of the wires with respect to the side-to-side direction of the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Krone GmbH
    Inventor: Laval Chung Long Shan
  • Patent number: 6338641
    Abstract: Electrical connector having an insulative body (12) with contact elements (32). The contact elements (32) have at one end thereof spring contact portions (40) arranged within a socket (44). The other ends of the contact elements (32) have pairs of insulation displacement contact parts (28). The pairs of contact parts (28) enable two wires to be connected to each contact element (32). The contact elements (32) are formed from blanks (56a, 56b) stamped from a strip as a lead frame 54. Contact portions (38), on which each pair of contact parts (28) are formed, are formed in rows at each edge of the lead frame strip, with the spring contact portions (40) extending inwardly from the strip edges at 45° to the strip edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignee: Krone GmbH
    Inventor: Bryce Lindsay Nicholls
  • Patent number: 6338642
    Abstract: Electrical connector having an insulative body (12) with contact elements (32). The contact elements (32) have at one end thereof spring contact portions (40) arranged within a socket (44). The other ends of the contact elements (32) have pairs of insulation displacement contact parts (28). The pairs of contact parts (28) enable two wires to be connected to each contact element (32). The contact elements (32) are formed from blanks (56a, 56b) stamped from a strip as a lead frame 54. Contact portions (38), on which each pair of contact parts (28) are formed, are formed in rows at each edge of the lead frame strip, with the spring contact portions (40) extending inwardly from the strip edges at 45° to the strip edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignee: Krone GmbH
    Inventor: Bryce Lindsay Nicholls
  • Patent number: 6319069
    Abstract: An arrangement of contact pairs (1, 2; 3, 6; 4, 5; 7, 8; 201, 202; 203, 206; 204, 205; 207, 208) for an electric patch plug for compensating the near-end crosstalk with contact pairs interlaced with one another, especially for an RJ-45 patch plug, in which the contacts (4,5) are crossed for compensation. The crossing point (11) is placed in the elastically mounted part of the contacts (1, 2; 3, 6; 4, 5; 7, 8) of the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Krone GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Gwiazdowski
  • Patent number: 6243250
    Abstract: Electrical connector (8) having connector terminals (12) at a front thereof to which external electrical conductors may be secured to make electrical connections between the conductors and the first terminals (12). A mounting assembly (14) at a rear of the connector (8) receives over-voltage protection devices (18) so that these couple electrically to the connector terminals (12) for providing over-voltage protection to electrical circuits in use coupling to the connector terminals (12). A releasable mounting device (20) releasably connects of the connector (8) to support structure (22) for the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Krone GmbH
    Inventor: Evan John Cater
  • Patent number: D466479
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: Krone GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Jürgen Pein, Frank Mössner, Michael Gwiazdowski